Featured Photo: “Chinstrap penguin, Weddell Sea” by SummitVoice1 on Flickr

Congratulations to Flickr participant Bob Berwyn for his featured photo from State of the Environment!

This May 5, 2011 photo tells a larger story about our environment today. From the photographer: “This lone chinstrap penguin on an ice floe in the Weddell Sea may be symbolic of the fate of the species. New studies show their populations have dropped by 50 percent in the last three decades, and the research links that decline to rapidly climbing temps along the West Antarctic Peninsula in sort of a ‘smoking gun’ for climate change.”

What’s the story where you live or travel? Share a photo taken from 2011 through 2013 of our world, our environment as you see it.

All of the featured photos from State of the Environment, as well as highlighted images from EPA’s historic Documerica project, can be seen on EPA’s Facebook page.

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