88 cores

“88 Cores” is a film by Peggy Weil that shows two miles of ice from Greenland’s ice sheet in one continuous pan. The time span of the ice is 110,000, meaning that the oldest ice in the film is from 2 miles below the top of the ice sheet and is...
In Human Time

In Human Time

The Climate Museum in NY City officially opened in its temporary space in the Parsons School of Design on December 20, 2017 with two artists: Zaria Forman, who we’ve featured here before, and Peggy Weil. In Human Time is about ice: Zaria Forman‘s beautiful...
Earth Works: Mapping the Anthropocene

Earth Works: Mapping the Anthropocene

Artist Justin Guariglia partnered with the NASA project Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) and Operation IceBridge in 2015 and 2016 to photograph Greenland’s deteriorating ice from airplanes used for scientific survey flights. The artist has developed a special...
Bearing Witness to Climate Change

Bearing Witness to Climate Change

We have featured Diane Burko’s work before, and feature it again in celebration of her new book, Glacial Shifts, Changing Perspectives. With 40 of her paintings and photographs inspired by expeditions to polar regions, the book documents her work in...