Stop calling it "AI training." Start calling it cultural vandalism. Court filings reveal Anthropic ran a secret operation called "Project Panama," buying up to 2 million physical books just to destroy them. Spines cut by hydraulic machinery, pages scanned, and text shredded into data.

🚨Oil disaster: new satellite imagery indicates oil leakage from Russian shadow fleet tanker Caroline Bezengi, grounded in Oman’s Al Hallaniyat archipelago, has accelerated, threatening coral reefs and coastal habitats that support endangered sea turtles, migratory seabirds and marine mammals.

Oil disaster unfolds in protected marine area as Russian shadow fleet tanker leak accelerates off Oman - Greenpeace International

New satellite imagery indicates that oil leakage from Russian shadow fleet tanker Caroline Bezengi, grounded in Oman’s Al Hallaniyat archipelago, has accelerated.

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Summer doesn't feel like summer any more ☀️ It is now an obstacle course of trying to stay cool, and to keep the most vulnerable members of our communities alive. Yet fossil fuel companies keep cashing in! It's time to make them pay!

Extreme heat, fossil fuels and survival: how we protect people in a heating world - Greenpeace International

Heatwaves from France to Pakistan are hitting bodies, minds, food systems, ecosystems and biodiversity. Fossil fuels lit the fire. Here is how we protect people and limit the damage.

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Stop calling Elon Musk's Ceuta border tweet "just trolling." Start calling it a calculated attempt to weaponise crisis, stoke division, and erode democracy. 🧵👇

. #SouthKorea recorded its highest-ever temperature of 42.5°C in Yangsan on Sunday, the highest temperature measured in 122 ​years ​of weather observations. With 16 deaths,m the government declared the #heatwave a national disaster.

Record heatwave spreads across Korean Peninsula, prompting emergency response

Forecasters said that extreme heat, previously concentrated in South Korea's southeast, was spreading to the Seoul ​metropolitan area and other western regions.

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A place on Earth known as “The Last Paradise” - Raja Ampat, in Indonesia - is at great risk. This remote archipelago is facing a rapid expansion of nickel mining. But we can get informed (link below) and sign a petition to protect it. Paradise is counting on us! act.gp/4pQmT9z

5 things you need to know about ‘The Last Paradise on Earth’ before it’s too late - Greenpeace International

For years, Raja Ampat has been celebrated as a rare conservation success story. Today, however, this globally important ecosystem is facing growing pressure from extractive industries.

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Stop calling them "data centers." Start calling them pollution centers. 🧵👇

Life has evolved to survive in boiling vents and burning deserts, but even the most ingenious species are being pushed towards extinction by extractivism and corporate greed. This Red List update also brings an important reminder: we see nature bounce back when we stop the harm and let it heal. 🌱

Species’ ingenious survival strategies no match for human destruction, red list reveals

Newly endangered animals include desert frogs and snails in extreme ocean depths, both threatened by mining

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We’re not even at the peak of El Niño yet, but the wildfires across Europe and the floods in South Asia are already devastating. Will we ever see real and urgent climate action from our world leaders?

Sacrificing people, animals, entire ecosystems, and, simply put, PLANETARY WELLBEING for a bunch of billionaires' profits and the growth of their polluting companies is indefensible and unacceptable. Nature is reacting to mistreatment. Sign our petitions, bear with us. #TimeToResist

If corporations knowingly contribute to dangerous climate harm, then surely there must be some legal mechanism to hold them accountable. Right?

#UNTaxConvention "We don't need vague promises, we need bold proposals that stop the exploitation and inequality, and hold the ultra-rich polluters accountable for the climate damage they leave behind." - Ucizi Ngulube, Tax Justice Campaigner, Greenpeace Africa. #TaxTheSuperRich #MakePollutersPay

Trillions within reach, yet governments’ Global Tax Treaty draft lets the richest climate polluters off the hook - Greenpeace International

Greenpeace International is calling on governments to raise their ambition at the fifth round of negotiations on the Global Tax Treaty. Gaps in the draft text must be addressed so that global tax rule...

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Europe's nuclear power is increasingly failing amid rising heat and droughts. France’s nuclear fleet has already seen a record number of heat-outages this summer. Low river Danube waters forced Romania to shut both its nuclear reactors. Hungary is next. Isn’t it time they switch to wind and solar?

Hungary to shut nuclear plant as heatwave hits central Europe

Hungary's sole nuclear power plant will be shut down next week because of low water levels in the river Danube, Prime Minister Peter Magyar said Friday as central Europe slogs through the latest in a…

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Hottest in a century 🥵 South Korea is battling through extreme heat as fossil fuel-driven climate crisis worsens

South Korea has hottest day on record amid extreme weather globally

Scientists say the climate crisis driven by human activity is making heatwaves more frequent.

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The intense heatwave at the end of June alone, is estimated to have killed 20,000 people. Climate crisis-driven heat is “sucking soils dry” as extreme drought spreads across Europe and other parts of the world. #MakePollutersPay

‘Extremely scary findings’ show climate crisis is supercharging Europe’s wildfire weather

Latest study says global heating has made hot, dry and windy conditions in Spain at least 20 times more likely

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From calls for climate action in the Philippines and Switzerland, to protests demanding permanent protection of Raja Ampat. Here are a few of our favourite images from Greenpeace work around the world this week 📸 💚

Greenpeace Pictures of the Week - Greenpeace International

From calls for climate action in Philippines and Switzerland, to protests demanding permanent protection of Raja Ampat. Here are a few of our favourite images from Greenpeace work around the world thi...

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📸 Hemos documentado desde el aire, con imágenes exclusivas de la mano del reconocido fotógrafo social y medioambiental Pedro Armestre, la devastación que dejaron los incendios en Almorox (Toledo), Madrid Oeste, Burgohondo, en Ávila, Brieva (Segovia) y La Mierla, en Guadalajara.

Women and frontline communities like Joyce in Dandora are forced to risk their health every day for a crisis they did not create. Ending plastic colonialism means capping production, banning toxic waste trade and winning a strong Global #PlasticsTreaty that delivers real justice.

Ending plastic pollution in Africa: a matter of justice for African women and communities - Greenpeace Africa

Millions of people across the world have joined our call for a strong, binding Global Plastics Treaty.

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Illegal gold mining in the Amazon rainforest must stop. Sign our petition and help us protect the forest and stand with Indigenous Peoples - in times of climate crisis, they are our most important allies. Link in bio. apnews.com/article/amaz...

Brazil uses forensic science to trace gold's origin and tackle illegal mining in the Amazon

Brazil is using forensic science to tackle illegal gold mining in the Amazon. The mining is a top threat to the rainforest and Indigenous and other local communities as it has accelerated deforestatio...

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“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. And I am not free as long as one person of Color remains chained. Nor is any one of you.” — Audre Lorde, “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”, 1981 #PanAfricanWomensDay

Rural women across Africa are on the front line of the climate crisis, absorbing every drought, flood and forest loss first and hardest. Their land rights, agroecology and seed‑saving are some of the most powerful climate solutions we have. #PanAfricanWomensDay

Rural women are on the front line of the climate crisis. It is time the world acts like it. - Greenpeace Africa

This year's World Environment Day theme "From awareness to action" sounds urgent. But for the millions of rural women living alongside logging concessions, industrial agriculture and mining sites acro...

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Press Release | Chevron and ExxonMobil today reported combined profits of more than US$26 billion for the second quarter, closing another bumper earnings season for the world's largest oil and gas corporations as the illegal war on Iran drives up oil prices and the cost of living.

As war on Iran drives monster Q2 profits for Big Oil, communities struggle with extreme weather and soaring costs - Greenpeace International

Amsterdam, Netherlands – Chevron and ExxonMobil today reported combined profits of more than US$26 billion for the second quarter, closing another bumper earnings season for the world’s la...

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The New Zealand government is rewriting the law, specifically to protect the country’s biggest climate polluters. They are shutting the courtroom doors in the faces of ordinary people by banning the public from ever suing big emitters. #TimeToResist

While parts of Europe are experiencing deadly wildfires, devastating floods have claimed at least 78 lives in India's Assam, affecting 600,000 and displacing tens of thousands.

Assam floods: Indian state faces worst deluge in years

While flooding happens in Assam every year, a state minister described this year as the worst in six decades.

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The war on Iran is killing civilians, driving a global energy and cost of living crisis, and unleashing environmental devastation. Fossil fuel dependence lets oil, gas and Big Ag giants turn war‑fuelled chaos into windfall profits and higher bills for people everywhere.

Fossil fuel dependence makes conflict more expensive: the true cost of the war on Iran - Greenpeace International

The US‑Israeli war on Iran is killing civilians and devastating the Middle East, but it is also exposing a deeper fault line. A world hooked on fossil fuels turns every conflict into a global cost of ...

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Shell more than DOUBLED its quarterly profit to almost US$10bn off war‑driven oil and gas price spikes, while deadly heatwaves, fires and floods rip through people’s lives Time to MAKE POLLUTERS PAY: hit Big Oil with tough permanent profit taxes, cut their subsidies, and end fossil fuel expansion.

Shell profits rise 70% on the back of war. We're running out of words to describe the obscenity of these numbers.

Shell faces backlash as profits rise 70% on back of war

Climate activists accuse the industry of profiting from the effects of the US-Iran conflict at a time when Europe is burning on the back of its business.

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1/4 If you earned US $13,250 every single day from the day Jesus was born until today, you still wouldn’t have made as much money as Shell made in profit in the last three months alone. IN THREE MONTHS!!! #MakePollutersPay #Renewables #EndFossilFuels

The ocean isn’t just overheating, it’s LOSING ITS BREATH. Scientists say global waters have already lost around 2% of their oxygen, pushing marine life towards an “unsafe space” with potentially irreversible impacts. Protect the oceans, stop new oil and gas.

From "moshobi" – or “extremely hot days” to kokushobi – or “cruelly hot day”. We live in times when we feel the need to invent new terms to describe extreme weather accurately while those responsible are not held accountable. Time to make BIG POLLUTERS pay. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Japan records its first ‘cruelly hot day’ as cities swelter in 40-degree heat

In April Japan coined term kokushobi for days above 40C as country advises workers to wear shorts to the office to cope with stifling heat

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