Greenpeace environmental activists display a banner in front of the giant excavator in the CSA coal mine near the town of Most, Czech Republic, on Nov. 28. Activists protested against expansion of coal mining in the area. The banner reads: 'Czech Republic - Europe's coal museum?' David W. Cerny/Reuters/File
Medics take care of activists from the environment organization Greenpeace who have chained themselves to the tracks near Wendisch-Evern, northern Germany, to protest against a shipment of nuclear waste to a storage in Gorleben, on Nov. 26. Nigel Treblin/dapd/AP/File
Greenpeace activists use a simulated oil spill to protest an oil spill in an offshore field operated by Chevron outside Chevron's offices in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Nov. 18. The Brazilian Federal Police began investigating an oil spill in an offshore field operated by Chevron Corp., a leak that an environmental group alleges is far bigger than the company has stated. Silvia Izquierdo/AP/File
Israeli police officers detain a Greenpeace activist who participated in a protest calling for the mayor of Jerusalem to recycle rubbish, in front of the city hall in Jerusalem on Nov. 13. Sebastian Scheiner/AP/File
Demonstrators protest from a crane at the Kusile power station near Witbank, South Africa, on Nov. 7. The activists chained themselves to a gate, and six of them climbed the crane at the coal-fired power station to protest dependence on coal, weeks before the country was to host a global conference on climate change. Benedicte Kurzen/Greenpeace-HO/AP/File
Greenpeace activists dressed as crime scene investigators protest against the use of trawlers for fishing outside the Environment Ministry in Athens on Oct. 10. The banner reads: 'Trawlers waste life.' John Kolesidis/Reuters/File
An activist, covered in flour and corn grains, holds up a corncob during National Corn Day celebrations in Mexico City on Sept. 29. Greenpeace and other organizations protested against the growing of genetically modified corn in Mexico, as corn is the primary food staple of Mexico and Central America. Carlos Jasso/Reuters/File
Greenpeace activists dressed up as climate change refugees before floating on a symbolic melting iceberg on the River Danube in front of the Parliament building of Budapest, Hungary, on June 29. Greenpeace wants Hungary to push the European Union to reduce its CO2 gas emissions by up to 30 percent. Bela Szandelszky/AP/File
A banner hangs from the Mattel headquarters in El Segundo, California on June 7. Greenpeace activists dressed as Ken dolls rappelled down the side of Mattel's headquarters on to unfurl a banner claiming that Barbie packaging contributes to rainforest destruction. Greenpeace/Handout/Reuters/File
A Greenpeace activist adjusts one of the 2,000 crosses, with writing in Italian marking the 25th anniversary of the nuclear explosion of Chernobyl in Ukraine, in Rome's ancient Circus Maximus on April 26. Riccardo De Luca/AP/File
Students and Greenpeace activists attend a candlelight vigil in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad on April 11. Dozens of students and activists participated in the vigil to mark the one-month anniversary of a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that battered Japan's northeast coast. The banner reads, 'Say no to nuclear energy. Japan is helpless, what will happen to India?' Amit Dave/Reuters/File
Environmental activists from Greenpeace demonstrate by holding images of landmarks in the water during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, on Dec. 8. Eduardo Verdugo/AP/File
Greenpeace activists protest with a projection reading 'Nuclear power damages Germany' on the nuclear power plant Isar near Landshut, Germany, on Sept. 28. Greenpeace activists protested with projections simultaneously at all twelve sites of nuclear power plants in Germany. Frauke Huber/Greenpeace/Reuters
A Greenpeace campaigner unfurls a banner while climbing up the anchor of the Stena Carron, Chevron's drill ship, off the Shetland Islands, United Kingdom, on Sept. 21. They climbed up the ship in an attempt to stop the vessel from leaving to start deep water drilling for oil off the islands. Will Rose/Greenpeace/Handout/Reuters/File
Lucy Lawless arrested: Police removed the protesters from their perch atop a 174-foot drilling tower on the Noble Discoverer in Port Taranaki.
Police arrested actress Lucy Lawless and five Greenpeace activists Monday, four days after they climbed onto an oil-drilling ship to prevent it from leaving a New Zealand dock.
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