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  • Fire and Deforestation in Porto Velho in the Amazon in Brazil. © Nilmar Lage / Greenpeace
    Stories
    ExtremeWeather Fires PollutersPayPact

    We risk our lives facing Amazon wildfires. What will politicians risk to make the polluters behind them pay

    A firefighter describes the horror of witnessing the Amazon being consumed by wildfires, and why he cannot turn his back on it.

    Daniel Gutierrez Govino •
    5 May 2025
    4 min read
  • Powerful Winds Fuel Multiple Fires Across Los Angeles Area. © David McNew / Greenpeace
    Stories
    EnergyRevolution ExtremeWeather Fires

    Lessons from the Los Angeles wildfires

    Harrowing images from the recent California fires drive home the existence of climate change and underscore the need for global preparedness.

    Hasina Kathrada •
    18 Feb 2025
    3 min read
  • Expedition in the Pantanal © Rogerio Florentino / Greenpeace
    Stories
    Fires Food COP16

    A world on fire: How industrial agriculture and reckless financiers are driving destruction in Brazil

    The climate crisis is severely impacting our world, but instead of protecting nature and people, our governments are not acting. Meanwhile, destructive companies, and the financial system that are enabling them pursue massive profits while Brazil’s precious natural areas turn to ashes.

    Rosana Villar •
    18 Sep 2024
    6 min read
  • Monitoring of deforestation, forest fires, and burns in the Amazon in July 2024. © Marizilda Cruppe / Greenpeace
    Stories
    Forests Fires

    Brazil is on Fire

    Due to a dangerous combination caused by human activity, Brazil is witnessing a sharp increase in the number of fire outbreaks across most of its territory.

    Greenpeace Brazil •
    5 Sep 2024
    3 min read
  • Fire in a recently deforested area in Gleba Abelhas, an unprotected federal forest in Canutama, Amazonas state. © Marizilda Cruppe / Greenpeace
    Stories
    Climate ExtremeWeather Fires Forests

    The climate emergencies of 2023

    We outlined some of the climate emergencies of the year in this blog — from torrential rains in Southeast Asia that resulted in catastrophic floods and landslides, to droughts in Africa that exacerbated the region’s hunger and poverty.

    Bea Amador and Sudhanshu Malhotra •
    15 Dec 2023
    7 min read
  • A hundred climate activists supporting Greenpeace, Stay Grounded, Extinction Rebellion, Scientist Rebellion and other climate movement groups from 17 countries have disrupted Europe’s biggest private jets sales fair, the annual European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE) in Geneva, demanding a ban on private jets.  Activists were peacefully occupying private jets that are exhibited at the business event by Geneva airport, having chained themselves to aircraft gangways and the exhibition entrance in order to keep prospective buyers from entering. The protestors stuck giant tobacco-style health warning labels on the airplanes marking them as toxic objects and warning that ‘private jets burn our future’, ‘kill our planet’, and ‘fuel inequality’. Public service announcements from loudspeakers carried by the activists exposed the dramatic consequences of private jets for our planet and revealed the hypocrisy of promoting private jets amidst rising social inequality. © Thomas Wolf / Stay Grounded
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    Actions Climate ExtremeWeather Fires Forests Oceans Oil Plastics Wins

    Best of Greenpeace images 2023

    The summer of 2023 was Earth’s hottest summer since global records began in 1880. This is just the beginning of a trend of increasing floods, wildfires, glacier melt, and heat…

    Sudhanshu Malhotra •
    15 Dec 2023
    3 min read
  • Fire Monitoring in the Amazon in Brazil in August, 2023. © Marizilda Cruppe / Greenpeace
    Stories
    Forests Fires

    Caring for the Amazon Rainforest in the age of fire

    The world is witnessing in horror historic record high temperatures. The planet is on fire in nature's response to our inaction against climate change. But in the Amazon, the fires have a slightly different cause - greed.

    Rosana Villar •
    5 Sep 2023
    6 min read
  • A firefighting plane sprays water during a fire in Dervenochoria, north-west of Athens © Spyros BAKALIS / AFP
    Stories
    ExtremeWeather Fires

    Greece is burning: 5 insights to explain the Greek fires crisis

    There are a number of things to understand about how and why Greece’s devastating fires are getting so much worse so fast. Here are 5 crucial insights to understand the fires crisis

    Ignacio Navarro •
    4 Aug 2023
    5 min read
  • A man holds an umbrella while standing on the banks of swollen river Satluj after heavy monsoon rains in Rampur, in India's Himachal Pradesh state. © AFP via Getty Images
    Stories
    Climate Fires Oceans ExtremeWeather

    We are in the middle of an extreme climate mess

    Our oceans are warming up and changing their colour due to climate change. Summers are getting hotter and hotter in many parts of the world, with temperatures reaching as high as 45C.

    Sudhanshu Malhotra •
    14 Jul 2023
    4 min read
  • People fill their buckets from a municipal water tanker on May 20, 2022, in Lahuriya village, 65 kms (40 miles) from Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, India. A severe heatwave has caused drought-like conditions in vast swathes of India's agricultural heartlands from north to south. India is particularly vulnerable to drought as its agriculture sector is heavily dependent on timely, uninterrupted natural weather cycles for its survival. Ritesh Shukla/Getty Images
    Stories
    Climate Fires Forests ExtremeWeather Photography

    Climate emergencies photos from the year so far

    As we celebrate World Environment Day today, it makes me incredibly proud to be a part of a group of pioneers across the globe.

    Sudhanshu Malhotra •
    5 Jun 2023
    3 min read
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