An AI cake, an Arctic sponge, and a celebrity SLAPP. Here are some of our favourite images from Greenpeace work around the world this week.
Taiwan – As US semiconductor giant NVIDIA kicks off its GTC AI conference in Taipei, Greenpeace East Asia activists confronted CEO Jensen Huang face-to-face, demanding that the AI chip leader and its billionaire founder take responsibility for the soaring energy demands and carbon emissions across its supply chain, especially in the East Asian manufacturing hub Taiwan where most of its hardware is produced.
Bulgaria – Greenpeace activists from Bulgaria, Hungary, Croatia, and Romania, deployed a massive “TOXIC” banner beneath the chimneys of the Bobov Dol Thermal Coal Power Plant. The direct action demands an immediate, permanent restriction on the facility’s operations and calls out the Bulgarian government’s irresponsible refusal to halt a chronic, rule-breaking offender.
USA – Ocean advocates and Pacific community leaders unite in Washington D.C. at Upwell: A Wave of Ocean Justice to demand the U.S. government stop its plans for deep sea mining in the Pacific. Surrounded by ocean allies from across the movement, they stand in solidarity with Pacific Island communities facing the world’s first proposed lease sale for deep sea minerals — slated for American Samoa. A delegation of Pacific community leaders from American Samoa, Hawaiʻi, CNMI, and Guam traveled to Washington D.C., where Greenpeace facilitated meetings with members of Congress and the media to help amplify their voices.
The Arctic – Images of underwater inhabitants of the Deep Arctic, captured during the current expedition. Pictured from left to right:
- Dumbo Octopus (Grimpoteuthis), in front of the underwater structures at Loki’s Castle hydrothermal vent field in the Norwegian Sea.
- The stalked deep-sea sponge Stylocordyla borealis, sampled from the Schulz Bank seamount along the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge.
- Purple Seastar discovered at the “Unnamed” seamount.
U.K. – Award-winning actor Javier Bardem and Children’s and Family Emmy Award-nominated actress Yasmin Finney star in a new film, SLAPP Suit, that dramatises the threat of — and resistance to — abusive SLAPP lawsuits, released this week by Greenpeace International.
Billionaire bullies and corporate polluters use Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP) to bury activists, journalists, whistleblowers, and non-profit organisations in legal fees, drain their time and resources, and ultimately make the cost of dissent too high. US-based fossil fuel pipeline company Energy Transfer has been waging back-to-back abusive SLAPP lawsuits against Greenpeace in the US and Greenpeace International for nearly a decade in a blatant attempt to silence free speech, erase Indigenous leadership of the Standing Rock movement, and punish solidarity with peaceful resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. Watch the full video on YouTube
Spain – Thirty Greenpeace Spain activists unfurled a huge banner on the Barqueta Bridge in Seville bearing the slogan “Aznalcóllar: Not Again” to protest against the plan to reopen a coal mine.
USA – Activists hold a banner near the US. Capitol Building in Washington DC demanding protection of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The federal government plans to open the Coastal Plain of the refuge for oil & gas drilling in a lease sale June 5, 2026.
Greenpeace has been a pioneer of photo activism for more than 50 years, and remains committed to bearing witness and exposing environmental injustice through the images we capture.
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