#Climate Change Photography

[delicatelysublimeforester]

Echoes of the Desert Dance: St. Barbe Baker's Legacy Continues

[2001hz]

Canadian wildfire smoke creates hazy skies and unhealthy polluted air quality in New York City (2023)

The sun is shrouded as it rises in a hazy, smoky sky behind the Empire State Building, One Vanderbilt and the Chrysler Building in NYC.

[itscolossal]

In ‘Dyal Thak,’ Photographer Kin Coedel Offers an Intimate Glimpse of Life on the Rapidly Changing Tibetan Plateau

[ravensvalley]

#HighPerch

Mountainous Parts of the Northern Hemisphere.

@BenAdrienProulx September 12, 2024.

[pwh3]

Climate Change March & Rally in New York City, September 17th, 2023.

[dopesorority]

[adventuresofalgy]

Although it had rained for most of the night, the clouds began to clear as the next day dawned, and by the time Algy had finished his hearty breakfast of fruit, nuts and seeds, the sun was shining once again, albeit intermittently.

It was a cool morning with a great deal of dampness suspended in the atmosphere, but there was a pleasant, invigorating freshness in the autumn air which inspired a fluffy bird to seek new adventures. However, Algy felt worried.

In the past few days he had heard from some of his friends that they were feeling excessivley hot. Determined to look into the matter further, Algy had engaged in a wee bit of research and discovered that the south-western United States, for example, was suffering an unprecedented heatwave… in October! He was truly flabbergasted to learn that the thermometers over there were reading well over 40℃ in many places… Algy had never in his life experienced heat of that kind, and sincerely hoped that he never would!

Of course the chances of such temperatures on the wild west coast of the Scottish Highlands were slim to say the least. The few hot days that Algy could remember just barely reached 30℃, and this year the thermometer had struggled to reach 20℃ at any time, even at the height of the summer.

He had to concede that the West Highlands did perhaps err a wee bit too far the other way when it came to temperature, but one thing in which the area undoubtedly excelled was the supply of fresh water. There was water, water everywhere, and many a drop to drink… In the thousands of burns, in the lochans, in the peat bogs, and in the great freshwater lochs – even in common or garden rivers – there was truly an abundance of good, fresh water. And in the odd moments when it was not actually falling out of the sky, the water continued to tumble down the hillsides and wind its way across moorland and bog until it reached the sea… where it didn't stop to rest, but started the cycle all over again.

So Algy had more than enough water to spare for all his friends, and a great deal of clean, cool, refreshing air besides, but there was just one wee technical hitch… how to send "Earth's loveliset daughter" across thousands of miles of ocean and land, to where she was needed most?

Even if he could fly that far – which frankly he doubted – the amount of water he could carry was very, very small, and although he could perhaps elicit the help of his local feathered friends, the quantity would still be woefully inadequate.

Algy decided that there was only one possible solution. He would have to send the water in the form of photographs, in the hope that when it reached his friends in faraway places it would be realeased as the real thing in a magical process which reversed the way in which it had been captured in the first place 😀

So without further ado, Algy set out on a special mission to find plenty of water to send to any and all of his friends – and indeed strangers – who might be in need, together with a good, healthy dose of cool, fresh Scottish air besides…

The Sun courted Water, Earth's loveliest daughter, And strove to abduct her in vain: For, when he had caught her, And to the clouds brought her, Home she came running in rain.

[Algy is quoting the poem A Sunstroke by the 19th poet (also professor of literature and Roman Catholic priest!) John B. Tabb.]

[kafkasapartment]

Despite their importance, about 50% of mangrove ecosystems are at risk of collapse due to human activities and climate change.

Over the past 50 years, approximately 20% to 35% of global mangrove areas have been lost due to both human activities and natural causes. Specifically, between 2000 and 2016, about 3,363 square kilometers (336,300 hectares) - an area the size of Toronto or Los Angeles- of mangroves were lost globally.

[nobeerreviews]

The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.

-- Albert Einstein

(asphalt melting, Switzerland)

[artemisblackwing]

Fire and Drought

Drought left the forest vulnerable to fire.

Still-living trees rise up from soot-black roots, a testament to the fire-resistant bark of the redwoods.

The silhouettes of former redwoods stand among those that still live, and the forest is made more beautiful by their company.

[sorrysomethingwentwrong]

Lori Nix & Kathleen Gerber, "Rift"

[dichtefichten]

blues

[re-scan]

[itscolossal]

Mulyana Transforms Plastic Yarn and Netting into Arresting Ocean Textures

[ravensvalley]

#RedFox

Canadian Red Fox at dawn walking the Mountainous Parts of the Northern Hemisphere.

@BenAdrienProulx October 14th, 2024.

[psykopaths]

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Some of the smallest of Glacier National Park's namesake glaciers may disappear within the next 10 to 20 years.

PHOTOGRAPH BY KEITH LADZINSKI