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Global coalition urges WHO to update decades-old drinking water guidelines as studies link nitrate pollution to cancer and birth risks
Over 80 leading global health, environment, and food advocacy organisations including Greenpeace International, the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems and the World Organization of Family Doctors have issued an open letter to the World Health Organization (WHO) urging a review of international drinking water standards for nitrate to protect public health from…
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Largest meat and dairy exporters could conceal over 1.5 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions if controversial accounting metrics adopted
The report also highlights a risk of governments using these paper savings in agriculture to justify slower decarbonisation in heavy-polluting fossil fuel sectors.
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Pig waste is polluting Mexico’s Maya rainforest. But local communities are fighting back
Across the globe, massive factory farms are polluting local drinking water to line the pockets of a wealthy few. But communities are drawing a line in the sand.
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Time for governments to wake up and bridge the 1.5°C emissions gap – Greenpeace
Greenpeace has urged governments meeting at the UN climate summit COP31 in Antalya next month to take stock of the latest emissions gap data and rapidly scale…
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Greenpeace Pictures of the Week
Protesting a megafarm development in northeast Croatia, calls for economic and climate justice in Thailand, and calls for forest protection in Poland, here are a few of our favourite images from Greenpeace work around the world this week.
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New Greenpeace report: Ocean sanctuary network could protect over a third of danger zones for vulnerable leatherback turtles in the Atlantic high seas
At current rate it will take 265 years to reach crucial target to protect 30% of the ocean - but sanctuary networks could save it, new Greenpeace report
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Amazon rainforest wrecker and world’s biggest meat company JBS is now expanding into Southeast Asia
Behind closed doors, one of the biggest drivers of the climate crisis isn't an oil company - it’s a global meat dynasty.
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We are losing biodiversity by the minute, and Ikea is still part of the problem
While politicians move at a snails pace to write protections into law, destruction hasn't paused. Logging companies are still cutting down trees in the very places proposed for future protection. Right in the middle of this is Ikea, the world's biggest furniture store.
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From Fiji to Türkiye: Can Australia advance Pacific priorities at COP31?
As COP31 nears, Pacific nations challenge world leaders to take urgent climate action for the most vulnerable.
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Sagunto 11 acquitted: Spanish court rejects prosecution bid to criminalise peaceful protest
In today’s judgment, the court rejected the charge of aggravated public disorder, finding the prosecution had failed to prove the activists engaged in any violence or intimidation that altered public peace.