Pianist plays as glacier crumbles

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Caption: Italian composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi performing his composition "Elegy for the Arctic." (Greenpeace/YouTube)

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Greenpeace has released a video of Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi playing a piano while floating through the debris of Norway's Wahlenbergbreen glacier.

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Caption: Pianist Ludovico Einaudi against the backdrop of the Wahlenbergbreen glacier in Svalbard, Norway. (Greenpeace/YouTube)

Shards of the glacier collapse into the sea as Einaudi plays an original composition called "Elegy for the Arctic."

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Caption: (Greenpeace/YouTube)

The video is part of the environmental group's campaign to convince a group of 15 European governments to commit to protecting 10 per cent of the Arctic Ocean.