Elegy for the Arctic

I have been a fan of Ludovico Einaudi, acclaimed Italian composer and pianist, for years. And now he has teamed up with Greenpeace to play the piano in front of a calving Wahlenbergbreen glacier in Svalbard, Norway. The goal is to raise awareness about the Arctic in...
The starving polar bear

The starving polar bear

In August 2015, Arctic nature photographer Kerstin Langenberger took a photo of an emaciated polar bear, and posted it on Facebook. The photo earned her quite a bit of hate mail, but it also inspired Kerstin and many others to become more involved in climate action....
Toxic Waste

Toxic Waste

These incredibly colorful and beautiful photographs of our toxic waste are by photographer J. Henry Fair. He elicits curiosity in the processes that produce this toxic waste by creating photographs that look like abstract art: “If I take a big picture of a belching...
Submerged Portraits

Submerged Portraits

Gideon Mendel travels the world taking photographs of those impacted by floods. His work explores the personal impact of climate change, as sea levels rise, and as flooding worsens. For every 1C degree warmer our atmosphere becomes, it holds an additional 5% water....
The Beast

The Beast

This is an excellent photo essay in Bloomberg about Fort McMurray and the recent wildfire. Reading this essay is a reminder of just how much investment we have in oil, and how difficult it is going to be to get off fossil fuels. “By 2040, [the oil sands] will...