BELEM, Brazil -- Protesters from a wide range of environmental and social movements chanted, waved huge flags or held up signs Saturday in what's traditionally the biggest day of protest at the halfway point of annual United Nations climate talks.

Some wore black dresses to signify a funeral for fossil fuels. Hundreds wore red shirts, symbolizing the blood of colleagues fighting to protect the environment.

Organizers with booming sound systems on trucks with raised platforms directed protesters. Marisol Garcia, a Kichwa woman from Peru marching at the head of one group, said protesters are there to put pressure on world leaders to make "more humanized decisions."

The demonstrators walked about 2.5 miles on a route that took them near the main venue for the talks, known as COP30. Protest

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