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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.

Negotiations for the Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary failed this time. But we have a chance to protect the ocean with a new global ocean treaty.

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

Antarctic glaciers are melting faster than they're formed. Less ice and warmer seas impacts wildlife like penguins, whales and krill. But we can choose to protect the oceans and help slow climate change in the polar regions and beyond.

Microplastics and plastic waste weren't what we wanted to find on a recent Antarctic trip. But it's another reminder that plastic pollution needs to be tackled at the source.

With beautiful black eyes and otherworldly translucent pink bodies, Antarctic krill are alien-looking animals. They're massively important for the Antarctic Ocean, but they also happen to be fascinating animals in their own right.