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Drone footage shows Arctic glaciers melting

A call to action on melting glaciers

Location: Svalbard, Norway

Greenpeace campaigners projected a video

on a remote glacier deep into the Arctic circle

showing young climate activists

calling on global heads of state

to step up and take climate change seriously

and join the "Wake Up Call" webinar

which will be live-streamed on the morning

of the UN biodiversity summit in New York

(SOUNDBITE) (English) LECTURER IN ECOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER, KIRSTIN THOMPSON, SAYING:

"There's a carving glacier behind, blocks of ice are coming off it so there's ice floating around and we can sort of hear these sort of popping crackling noises, and that's the air bubbles being released from the ice as it melts, which is quite a sad sound really, because we know this happens normally and naturally anyway but we also know that glaciers like this are receding at a really unprecedented rapid rate."