In 1909 Eduard Spelterini went up in a gas balloon and took incredible photographs (with glass plates!) of the Mer de Glace glacier in the Swiss Alps. He was the first to traverse the Alps by air, and the first to photograph the mountains from the air–an amazing...
“Being ecologically conscious is like living in a world of wounds.” — Aldo Leopold, environmentalist This photograph by Austin Curtis is of Morgan Curtis’s hand, freshly tattooed with the level of CO2 in the atmosphere when she was born (1991). Morgan...
Alison Spodek Keimowitz was diagnosed with lukemia at 37, and given a 25% chance to live. Her beautiful essay in Slate describes how she came to terms with her brush with death and the inevitable changes and deaths we face on a rapidly changing Earth. Keimowitz...
“Today, like a ship entering the storm, the world faces climate change induced collapse. Once You Know, by director Emmanuel Cappellin, is a poetic and poignant exploration of how four of the world’s leading climate scientists and energy experts find truth,...
9B regulations manage the “split estate” of our landscape of public lands — the federal government owns the surface land, but corporations own the mineral rights below ground. Many of these regulations predate the National Parks, and there are many...
Matthew Burtner placed 19 microphones at the foot of the Matanuska Glacier near Anchorage, Alaska to record the sounds of the melting ice. He stretched the time of the glacier sounds, and accompanied the sound with other music to create his piece “Sonic...
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