$345 Million Verdict Against Greenpeace Should Be Overturned, Lawyers Say

NYT Science Tuesday 22 September 2026, 18:27 UTC By Karen Zraick 1 min read

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Greenpeace in 2025 lost a lawsuit brought by pipeline company Energy Transfer over protests against its Dakota Access Pipeline. A protest encampment in 2016.

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The Van Allen radiation belts are huge, doughnut-shaped regions of highly energetic charged particles trapped by Earth's magnetosphere. These charged particles play a major role in space weather, so studying them is important for predicting and managing risks to satellites, astronauts, power grids and other infrastructure.

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Sheep grazing may pose greater threat to Scotland's wild pollinators than honey bees

Sheep grazing, rather than honey bees, could be the bigger threat to wild pollinators on Scotland's moorlands, according to a new University of Bristol-led study. The research, published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, has found that grazing in spring can remove much of the nectar emerging bumblebees need, while commercial honey bee hives introduced during the summer heather flowering period have a much smaller impact.

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$345 Million Verdict Against Greenpeace Should Be Overturned, Lawyers Say

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