Greenpeace Pictures Of Week 18 January

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Aerial image of a paraglider flying over an oil rig, with a yellow parachute emblazoned with the Greenpeace logo, and trailing a yellow banner reading 'Stop fossil gas'.
© Greenpeace

A Greenpeace paraglider activist flies near the Neptun Deep drilling platform in Constanta, Romania, holding a banner reading 'Stop Fossil Gas'.

In this image, taken at dusk in a wooded area, we see the back of a firefighter directing a jet of water from a hose at the ground while surrounded by orange and pink smoke.
© David McNew / Greenpeace

Firefighters mop up hot spots near the major communications towers on Mount Wilson, used by law enforcement agencies, LAX radars, television and radio broadcasting, that were threatened by the flames of the deadly Eaton Fire on January 9, 2025 near Altadena, California.

In this image, taken in the 'blue hour' of the evening, we see the charred remains of a house, burned down in the Eaton Fire. All that remains standing in the rubble is the two story chimney stack of the home.
© David McNew / Greenpeace

Homes that were destroyed in the Eaton Fire are left in the dark of night on January 12, 2025 in Altadena, California.

In this dramatically lit shot, we see a the back of a volunteer wearing a hoodie and carrying a crate of water bottles. The volunteer is in sharp focus while the background of the image, hazy and blurred, is lit in vivid blue on one side of the frame and vivid red on the other, from the illuminated lights of an emergency vehicle in the background.
© David McNew / Greenpeace

Volunteers bring water to give to people who remained in a few of the houses left among the thousands that burned the Eaton Fire. Residents were concerned they would not be allowed to return if they were to leave their devastated neighborhoods on January 12, 2025 in Altadena, California.

In this close up shot, we see an enormous banner hanging from a crane, given scale by a tiny activist hanging from one corner. The banner, curling in the wind reads 'resist' in capital letters, with a symbolic sunrise graphic design behind the huge letters.
© Kate Davison / Greenpeace

In this image from 2017, Greenpeace activists deploy a banner on a construction crane near the White House reading 'RESIST' on the fifth day of Donald Trump's first term in office.

In this image, a man in his early twenties wearing a green Greenpeace anorak and looking directly into the camera holds a large model of a letter S. The S is painted in a striking red colour, contrasting the muted tones of the late winter afternoon in Germany in the background of the scene.
© Aliona Kardash / Greenpeace

During incumbent chancellor Olaf Scholz' election campaign appearance at the Jovel Music Hall in Münster, the local Greenpeace group reminds the SPD (Social Democratic Party) not to forget the S for Social in their party name.

In this colourful image taken at night outside the Council of Europe in Brussels, red lights illuminate the large classical pillars outside the building, while activists look directly into the camera and hold bright blue banners reading 'ratify ocean treaty' in capital letters.
© Greenpeace

Greenpeace Belgium and Greenpeace Poland activists greeted guests at an event inaugurating the Polish presidency of the Council of the European Union in Brussels with an urgent call for EU governments to accelerate ratification of the Global Ocean Treaty.

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