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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 623

Greenpeace

Oil tankers ADALYNN and Front Eagle on fire in the Strait of Hormuz, June 19, 2025. (X/used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 19, 2025, 6:07 pm
Greenpeace warns tanker crash in Strait of Hormuz may cause environmental disaster
Group says one of the tankers was operating below standards; vessels catch fire as Iran mulls closing strait as Israel attacks its nuclear and military sites
By GABE LEVIN
A textile dump at Old Fadama in Accra, Ghana, October 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
November 26, 2024, 6:55 pm
Most used clothes deposited in textile recycling bins end up in Africa — report
Greenpeace Israel used GPS tags to track journeys of 24 discarded garments. Eleven joined billions of items dumped in developing countries. None were made into new clothes
By Sue Surkes
The tail of the sperm whale spotted off the coast of Israel in spring 2022, which the Israeli team named Kim Kobo after the photographer. (University of Haifa)
August 28, 2024, 4:07 pm
Researchers track whale’s record 2,800-kilometer swim across Mediterranean
Team led by University of Haifa expert say understanding the paths taken by whales in shallow, risky areas could help save them from accidental deaths
By Sue Surkes
Dr. Aviad Scheinin, director of the Marine Apex Predator Lab at the Morris Kahn Marine Research Station at the Haifa University Charny School of Marine Sciences, looks for marine mammals during the Israel-UK survey of Israel's economic waters, in Spring 2022. (Elad Aybes, Greenpeace Israel)
May 29, 2023, 8:14 pm
New findings on deep sea whales, dolphins prompt call to stop Israel’s search for gas
First extensive exploration of Israel’s deep-sea economic waters by Israeli-UK team identifies two species of threatened whales that are sensitive to underwater noise
By Sue Surkes
Coral reef restoration ranger Yatin Patel measures an artificial reef structure in the Indian Ocean near Shimoni, Kenya on June 13, 2022 (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
March 5, 2023, 12:27 pm
‘The ship has reached the shore’: UN agrees on ‘historic’ deal to protect oceans
After 2 weeks of intense talks, negotiators hammer out conservation plan with goal of protecting 30% of world’s land and sea by 2030; text to be formally adopted at later date
By AFP
Violetta Ryabko (far left, with hat and sunglasses) and husband Vasily Yablokov (standing, second from right), join lawmaker Alon Tal (standing on right), Greenpeace Israel director Jonathan Aikhenbaum (seated, center), and other activists, at a Greenpeace protest against Israel's policy on natural gas in Jerusalem, on September 20, 2022. (Greenpeace)
September 25, 2022, 11:50 am
How to do the holidays with zero waste, with an online guide
Violetta Ryabko, author of Greenpeace-produced brochure, who moved to Israel from Russia: ‘I want to contribute something good to this country’
By Sue Surkes
Greenpeace International's newest sailing boat, Witness, arrives at the Ashkelon marina in southern Israel on March 31, 2022. (Dor Nevo)
April 5, 2022, 1:05 pm
Israel-UK researchers to map whales, dolphins in area set for oil, gas exploration
Species in little-explored section of deep sea will be documented by scientists from Greenpeace and University of Haifa using visual, acoustic equipment
By Sue Surkes
Satellite image from February 13, 2021, of a 26.4 kilometer(16.4 mile) long oil spill about 10 km (six miles) from Hadera in northern Israel.
February 28, 2021, 7:53 pm
Satellite images of oil slicks off coast show recent spill far from a one-off
Greenpeace says spillages are ‘a stain on the government’ for consistently ignoring calls to monitor and prepare for toxic pollution
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Smoke rises from a coal burning power plant in Colstrip, Montana, July 1, 2013. (Matthew Brown/AP)
November 8, 2020, 6:18 pm
Biden’s victory offers new hope for environmentalists
President-elect has vowed to bring US back into Paris climate agreement that Trump exited, while Democrats have set 2050 as a target to make country carbon-neutral
By Amélie BOTTOLLIER-DEPOIS
View of the oil refineries in Haifa Bay, May 5, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90/File)
July 9, 2020, 12:12 pm
Government set to weaken pollution regulations to help business
Activists warn that moves to ‘strike balance’ between economic costs, health benefits of limiting pollution and toxic substances will set back public’s protection ‘by decades’
By Sue Surkes
Rotem Amfert factories in the Negev. (Screenshot)
February 18, 2020, 6:36 pm
In win for environment, Israel won’t issue new oil shale exploration permits
Energy Ministry says it will not renew ICL Rotem Amfert license and will require 2 other oil shale projects to comply with environmental criteria
By Sue Surkes
Clearing rain forest in northern Argentina for the Cresud company and preparing it for pasture. (Greenpeace)
September 25, 2019, 6:29 pm
Israeli supermarket accused of selling Argentine beef raised in cleared forest
Greenpeace: Company that supplies meat to Shufersal cut down 300,000 acres of Gran Chaco forest; entire supply chain owned by Argentinian Jewish businessman Eduardo Elsztain
By Sue Surkes
Greenpeace activists rappel down the walls of the Jerusalem's Old City, during a protest on April 1, 2019, to hang a banner saying 'Bolsonaro Stop Amazon Destruction' during the visit of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in Israel (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 1, 2019, 4:38 pm
Greenpeace activists rappel down Old City walls in protest against Bolsanaro
Members of environmental protection group hang banner opposite Brazilian president’s hotel urging him to stop destruction of Amazon rainforest
By ToI Staff
Israelis take part at a protest march to demand immediate action on climate change in Tel Aviv on March 29, 2019. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)
March 29, 2019, 8:13 pm
Thousands rally in Tel Aviv to demand action against climate change
Chanting ‘we want clean air’ and ‘environment before profit,’ protesters also focus anger on construction of natural gas platform off the coast
By ToI Staff
A protester holds up a placard as she takes part in the Scotland United Against Trump demonstration through the streets of Edinburgh, Scotland on July 14, 2018, on the third day of US President Donald Trump's four-day UK visit. (AFP/NEIL HANNA)
July 14, 2018, 8:17 pm
10,000 protest Trump in Edinburgh; paraglider with banner breaches no-fly zone
Police search for demonstrator who flew a Greenpeace sign over resort where US president was staying
By AP
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