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Reports that a New Zealand trawler has destroyed almost 40 kilograms of deep sea corals in a region of the Pacific Ocean earmarked for protection between Australia and New Zealand highlights the need for swifter government action to protect the ocean, says Greenpeace Australia Pacific.

In a new report, Greenpeace acknowledges that Telstra emerges first among companies using renewables. The report is also urging other telcos to switch to renewable energy.

Electricity consumption from data centres and 5G base stations in China is "on track to increase by an estimated 289% between 2020 and 2035," according to a new report from Greenpeace, which also shows 61% of electricity that powered China’s digital infrastructure came from coal in 2020.

Environmental activist organisation Greenpeace has questioned what Samsung plans to do with the remaining manufactured Galaxy Note7 devices, after production was halted due to fears of explosions.

The chorus of concerned voices being raised ahead of the International Telecommunication Union's forthcoming World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT-12) is growing in both the number and the status of participants. The ITU's latest attempt to address those concerns is not re-assuring.

Greenpeace and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) have joined forces to lobby against what they say is a move by "certain countries" to use the ITU to take control of the Internet.

Greenpeace has published its fourth semi-annual Cool IT Leaderboard, which ranks global IT brands on their efforts to build emission-reducing innovations, mitigate their own energy footprints and support groundbreaking climate and energy policies. Cisco, Ericsson and Fujitsu were singled out as leaders. Apple was nowhere to be seen.

Cisco and Ericsson have taken the top two spots in Greenpeace's latest ranking of companies by their greenhouse gas reducing initiatives.