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A new major study from the EAT-Lancet Commission confirms Greenpeace’s call from March last year to significantly cut global meat and dairy consumption in favour of plant-based alternatives. The EAT-Lancet study involved 37 scientific experts from 16 countries over a three-year period.

Greenpeace Argentina activists are in the Chaco Forest documenting illegal deforestation contributing to massive flooding across northern Argentina. Just, on January 15, the activists confronted a bulldozer that was illegally clearing forest in a protected area. Illegal forest destruction — driven by the rapidly expanding agricultural industry — is putting local communities and native species at risk across the vulnerable Chaco Forest.

The biggest great white shark on record is visiting the American island state of Hawaii, divers say.

A group of divers monitoring the carcass of a sperm whale off the coast of Oahu say they have gone swimming with the massive predator, and that based on the size and the markings, the shark is known as “Deep Blue,” one of the largest great whites on record.

“From water crisis, to extreme weather events, to failures in climate change mitigation and adaptation, four of the top five most impactful threats identified in this year’s influential WEF Global Risks report are related to climate. At the same time the report warns that the results of climate inaction are becoming increasingly clear.

Nestle announced on January 15 plans to accelerate its actions to tackle plastic pollution, which include making its packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025 and shifting to single-use paper and other alternatives.

Following the irresponsible decision to keep national parks open without adequate staff during the federal government shutdown, vandals felled iconic Joshua trees to gain entry to the Joshua Tree National Park for off-roading late last week. The government shutdown, which became the longest in U.S. history over the weekend, left thousands of National Parks Service employees on furlough.

In a letter to Senator Cortez Masto dated January 7, 2019, Commissioner Bernard McNamee shared guidance from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) ethics officer that precludes him from deciding a case that “replicate or closely resemble” prior Department of Energy efforts to bailout coal and nuclear plants based upon their so-called “fuel security.”

Greenpeace condemns the Japanese Government’s formal announcement to officially withdraw from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) on December 26, with the intention to resume commercial whaling in its territorial waters and exclusive economic zone (EEZ).

Conservation action has brought renewed hope for the Fin Whale and the Mountain Gorilla, according to the update of The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The Fin Whale has improved in status from Endangered to Vulnerable following bans on whaling, while the Mountain Gorilla subspecies has moved from Critically Endangered to Endangered thanks to collaborative conservation efforts.

A Greenpeace Andino investigation has exposed how oil companies operating in Vaca Muerta, one of the world’s largest unconventional reserves of oil and gas, are using illegal dumps operated by local waste treatment company Treater S.A. Oil majors Shell and Total are dumping thousands of tonnes of toxic oil and industrial waste from their fracking operations in open waste ponds in the sensitive Patagonian environment. Treater’s clients in the region also include ExxonMobil, Pan American Energy (a subsidiary of BP), and the state-owned YPF.