Scientists Dr Alex Borowicz (l) and Clare Flynn (r) from Stony Brook University, together with crew member Miriam Friedrich; onboard a RHIB off Wide Open Island in Antarctica.

The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise has returned to the Antarctic Peninsula with a team of independent scientists from Stony Brook University, to conduct ground breaking research on remote penguin colonies, many of which have never before been surveyed. To investigate the impacts of the climate crisis on Antarctic penguin populations.