The horrors we inflict

Everyone should force themselves to watch this video from Netflix, a short behind-the-scenes clip of a harrowing scene of walrus who cannot find ice in a melting Arctic, and are forced to rest on land, with horrific consequences. This is just one of many impacts of...
I cannot breathe

I cannot breathe

Sometimes the news is so sickeningly awful, so disgusting, so disheartening, I can’t even breathe. “A report by cabinet ministers in Botswana has recommended lifting a four-year hunting ban and the introduction of elephant culling. After months of public...
Earth Destroyers

Earth Destroyers

The machines used to mine coal are called “earth movers”. I call them “earth destroyers”. You can see them in the distance in this photograph by Edward Burtynsky, from his book Anthropocene, titled Coal Mine #1, North Rhine, Westphalia Germany...
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...

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, There is rapture in the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more. — Lord George Gordon...