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From Ukraine to Iran: how the fossil fuel war playbook makes people pay for crisis
The US and Israel’s war on Iran is not only a human tragedy. It is also a textbook example of the fossil fuel industry’s war playbook, turning oil and gas chaos into record profits while people face higher bills. Governments can either keep playing along, or break the cycle with renewables and justice‑based solutions.
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The Santa Marta Fossil Fuels Conference reminded me why we do this
Greenpeace Colombia campaigner reflects on experience at First International Conference on Transitioning Away From Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, Colombia.
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The $2.5 Billion Secret: What the world’s largest meat company is hiding in Nigeria
There is a titan of industry driving dangerous climate destruction and it is currently setting its sights on a massive expansion in Africa.
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Forty years on, the Chornobyl disaster remains an ongoing and evolving crisis
This is not simply a commemoration of a past event. 40 years later, this is an ongoing nuclear emergency.
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Greenpeace Pictures of the Week
An act of glacial solidarity, Trump spews oil, and the Arctic Sunrise joins a flotilla. Here are a few of our favourite images from Greenpeace work around the world this week.
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In Santa Marta, governments can back clean energy, say no to war and oil and gas
As leaders prepare to gather in Santa Marta, Colombia to chart a course away from fossil fuels, the world is being reminded, again, of the cost of coal, oil and gas dependence.
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From Forests to Oceans: Meet five Earth Defenders showing what real protection is
From the Amazon to the Congo Basin to Thailand, meet five Earth Defenders whose stories serve as inspiration to join the movement to protect the planet.
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How the war on Iran exposes the link between fossil fuels, plastics, and price shocks
The US-Israel war on Iran is a human and environmental crisis, but it also exposes how deeply plastics depend on fossil fuels. As oil and petrochemical supply chains are disrupted, prices rise and corporations push more extraction, making the case for reuse, renewables and a strong Global Plastics Treaty even clearer.
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9 ways you can recover from, or prevent, activist burnout
If we allow ourselves to become completely broken, we can no longer be the activists we want to be in the first place.
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Greenpeace Pictures of the Week
This week at Greenpeace we performed with Swiss artist Athena on the Morteratsch Glacier, joined the Global Summud Flotilla and protested against fossil fuels, destructive fishing, for increased safety in Chornobyl and more. Here’s a few of our favourite images from Greenpeace work around the world.