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Women and their families gathered today at a downtown Philadelphia hair salon to volunteer their time and a small portion of their hair for a new nationwide scientific study by Greenpeace on mercury poisoning. The event, which collected the inaugural data for the Greenpeace Hair Sampling Project, educated those in attendance about the growing national concern over the levels of the toxic metal mercury in people's bodies.

On the eve of ExxonMobil's Annual General Meeting in Dallas, Texas, we projected 100 foot images of floods, storms and other impacts of global warming on the building where shareholders will gather, warning that Exxon's policies on climate change are a risk to both their investment and the planet.

Greenpeace Executive Director, John Passacantando, appeared at the Endangered Forests Press Conference and Rally to join national forest organizations from around the country in announcing a summer of peaceful protests against President Bush's attack on old-growth forests as well as its attempt to silence its critics.

With 40,000 Signatures in Hand, Africans Come to World Bank to Save Their Last Forests Cameroonian Students Ask World Bank Not to Repeat Mistakes in Congo What: As the Boards of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group (Bank) gather in Washington for their annual meeting, a group of African students are traveling across the ocean to call upon the bank ministers to stop forest destruction in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The students are arriving with 40,000 signatures asking the World Bank to not repeat the mistakes of their "Forest Reform" in Central Africa, which allowed the large scale expansion of industrial logging into intact rainforests. The student activists are available to the media to discuss their work and how World Bank policies affect their lives. (See student bios below)

Local community activists joined Greenpeace today for the launch of its first U.S. Forest Rescue Station, at the site of the proposed Kelsey Whiskey timber sale, located in the Klamath-Siskiyou region of southern Oregon. The mobile Station, which is open to the public for workshops, hikes and other educational activities, is a hub for Greenpeace's campaign calling for greater protection and restoration of forests on U.S. public lands, and a moratorium to end commercial logging on our public lands.

Actor John C. Reilly returned to the banks of the Rogue River in Southern Oregon today, not to film a movie this time, but instead to call for greater protection and restoration of ancient forests on U.S. public lands. Reilly, who became familiar with the Wild and Scenic Rogue River while shooting the film The River Wild, spoke at a press conference along with a local river rafting guide and representatives of Greenpeace.

In a peaceful protest to challenge the assault on U.S. public lands by the Bush administration, Greenpeace activists put their bodies on the line today in the ancient forests of Southern Oregon. A three-ton cargo container with two people locked to the inside and one attached to the outside, was placed between chainsaws and some 236 acres of old-growth forest designated for a timber sale.

Greenpeace applauded General Motors today on its announcement to eliminate polyvinyl chloride (PVC), or vinyl plastic, from its automobile interiors. The international environmental organization then called on the worldwide auto industry to follow GM’s lead.

"Drumbeat for Mother Earth," a documentary Produced by Greenpeace and the Indigenous Environmental Network, has been awarded a top prize from the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. The film was recognized as Best Environmental Documentary.

The University of Vermont confirmed today the removal of all Kimberly-Clark products from campus, joining 11 other universities and colleges that have removed products from tissue giant Kimberly-Clark (K-C), parent company to Kleenex and Scott brands, because the company sources paper fiber from the North American Boreal forest--one of our last remaining ancient forests.