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A boy stands by debris outside a home damaged by Cyclone Pam which hit Vanuatu, an island in the Pacific, in March 2015.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh, one of the winners of the United Nations Champions of the Earth award.

The Government of Taiwan has acquired a retrospective fishing license for a boat Greenpeace busted illegally fishing in the Pacific Ocean with hundreds of shark fins on board.

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts said Ireland benefits from an effective and independent radiation safety regulatory body. They also made several recommendations to further strengthen Ireland’s regulatory safety framework.

A helper/veterinarian, part of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, minding an orphaned gorilla.

Alyssa Anderson, daughter of a beekeeper, holds a baby bee in a California orchard.

Answering a call from the Ka’apor people, activists from Greenpeace Brazil are working with the Ka’apor indigenous community to monitor and protect their lands from the invasion of illegal loggers in Maranhão state, Brazil.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday announced a settlement with Duke Energy Corporation (Duke) to resolve Clean Air Act violations at five coal-fired power plants across North Carolina.

A thick smoke haze from the thousands of fires blanketing Sumatra and Kalimantan is testament to the government’s ongoing failure to address forest clearing and peatland destruction. Greenpeace Southeast Asia’s analysis shows 3,464 fire hotspots this year in Indonesia’s peatlands, which make up a fraction of the nation’s landmass, compared with 5,076 fires elsewhere. This is not a new phenomenon – last year 75 percent of fire alerts in Sumatra overlapped with peatlands.

The Rainbow Warrior is at the scene of a serious pirate fishing operation taking place on the high seas of the Pacific Ocean.
The Greenpeace ship, currently in Pacific tropical tuna grounds to investigate and expose out of control fishing, came across the Taiwanese tuna longliner Shuen De Ching No.888 , which appeared to be fishing without permission, in the high seas close to Papua New Guinea's waters.