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Greenpeace Andino activists protested today against the lack of regulation for the fishing industry in the South Atlantic by displaying a 25 meter-long banner in the port of Montevideo, Uruguay, with the message “Ocean Looters”. The port regularly hosts vessels that fish in the unregulated waters beyond Argentina’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), including some reportedly with a history of illegal fishing.

“The government of Chile saying it cannot host COP 25 must not stop the debate in Chilean society on environmental and social injustice. We are in a climate crisis – civil dialogue and the right to peaceful protest have to be maintained.

On October 24, Indigenous leaders targeted CEOs and senior management of some of the world’s biggest brands, including Nestle, Unilever and Mondelēz, at a summit in Berlin, to demand they end their role in forest destruction in the Amazon and across Brazil.

At least five people are dead in the southern Philippines after it was struck by a powerful earthquake Thursday, the third one to hit the region this month.

Greenpeace Austria activists staged a symbolic oil spill with giant whale sculptures outside the headquarters of Austrian oil and gas giant, OMV. The protest, joined by a Māori Indigenous leader, aims to show the risks of oil drilling activities, scheduled to take place in the next few weeks off New Zealand’s coast, that threaten whales and critically endangered dolphins and go against the Paris climate agreement.

Greenpeace Brazil activists recreated the oil spill that contaminated hundreds of beaches and a sample of Amazon destruction directly to the President at the Presidential Palace. Nineteen activists were detained by the military police following the peaceful protest in Brasilia.

Coca-Cola, Nestlé, and PepsiCo are the top 3 most identified companies in global brand audits for the second year in a row, according to a new report “BRANDED Volume II: Identifying the World’s Top Corporate Plastic Polluters.”

A giant tortoise makes its way to the water's edge on a beach on Curieuse Island, a Seychelles National Park.

Greenpeace activists from the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark boarded two oil platforms in Shell’s Brent field in a peaceful protest against plans by the company to leave parts of old oil structures with 11,000 tonnes of oil in the North Sea, on October 14. Climbers, supported by the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, scaled Brent Alpha and Bravo and hung banners saying, ‘Shell, clean up your mess!’ and ‘Stop Ocean Pollution’.

On October 10, 14 mayors of some of the world’s largest cities, including Paris, Los Angeles, Lima, Tokyo and Seoul, have signed a commitment to become ‘Good Food Cities’, by considerably reducing meat served in their public institutions as part of their response to the global climate emergency.