Tag: Antarctic

Thom Yorke releases track in support of campaign for vast Antarctic Sanctuary

Stuart Mitchell

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has released a solo track in support of Greenpeace’s campaign for a vast Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary. The haunting song, entitled Hands Off The Antarctic, is set to stark black-and-white footage of Antarctic landscapes and wildlife, gathered during a three-month Greenpeace research expedition earlier his year. Campaigners lit up London’s Marble Arch on Tuesday night with a stunning animated 3D projection of Antarctic wildlife to launch the track, which was live-streamed on Greenpeace and Radiohead Facebook pages.  “There are some places on this planet that are meant…

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Stars get on board to protect the strange things and fantastic beasts of the Antarctic Ocean

Stuart Mitchell

‘Stranger Things’ star David Harbour and ‘Fantastic Beasts’ star Alison Sudol are on board a Greenpeace ship heading for Antarctic waters. They will help make the case for an Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary backed by campaigners, scientists, over 40 international celebrities and 800,000 people around the world. Following a Twitter challenge, resulting in more than 200,000 retweets in five hours, David Harbour secured a place on the Greenpeace ship alongside singer-songwriter and actress Alison Sudol. They have joined an expedition to gather scientific evidence of the need for an Antarctic Ocean…

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Javier Bardem visits Antarctic seafloor and joins Greenpeace’s Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Just days after Greenpeace released rare footage of the Antarctic seafloor, Oscar-winning actor Javier Bardem has dived in a two-person submarine to visit this remote location and call for the creation of a vast Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary. After a two-hour dive to the seabed, at a depth of 270m, near the Antarctic Peninsula, Javier Bardem described the ‘overwhelming variety of colours and life’ in the Antarctic. ‘It is an incredibly important mission to go down and document these species in all their colourful existence and to prove the importance of…

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Penguins pop up across the globe in Greenpeace Campaign

Stuart Mitchell

As a groundbreaking expedition begins in the Antarctic, pop-up penguins have been spotted from London to Seoul, Buenos Aires to Sydney, and New Delhi to Washington DC, marching for an Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary. The striking geometric sculptures have appeared by national landmarks across the globe, on local transport, and travelling to the Antarctic with suitcases in hand, including by the White House, Buenos Aires’ colourful Boca district, Sydney Opera House, and the Sagrada Família in Barcelona. The penguins are part of a new Greenpeace campaign calling for the creation of…

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Greenpeace launches campaign to create ‘largest protected area on Earth’

Stuart Mitchell

Greenpeace has launched a global campaign for an Antarctic Sanctuary, covering 1.8 million square kilometres of ocean, to protect whales, penguins and other wildlife. Following a failure to agree strong marine protection in the East Antarctic, Greenpeace has called for governments to show “greater vision and ambition” in the coming year and create the largest protected area on Earth: an Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary. The Antarctic Sanctuary would be five times the size of Germany, in the Weddell Sea, next to the Antarctic peninsula. “Over the next 12 months we have…

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