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12 iconic photos from a year of disruptions - and the struggle to protect our future

London, Ushuaia - Argentina, 11 February 2020 – Scientists surveying chinstrap penguin colonies in the Antarctic have found that the impacts of climate change have led to drastic reductions of chinstraps in many colonies, with some declining by as much as 77% since they were last surveyed almost 50 years ago.

London, 10 February 2020. Today, a towering two-metre penguin ice sculpture appeared on the shores of the River Thames opposite St. Pauls Cathedral.

London / Ushuaia, Argentina, 22 January 2020 - Award-winning actors and marine scientists on board two Greenpeace ships; the Esperanza and the Arctic Sunrise, have arrived in the Antarctic to expose how climate change, plastic pollution and industrial fishing are impacting penguin colonies, whales and other marine life in the region.

Governments failed to agree a Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary

Thom Yorke song backing 2 million-strong campaign for largest protected area on Earth launched with 3D projection on London's Marble Arch

Petition calls for the creation of the largest protected area on Earth – a 1.8 million square kilometre Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary