Chatting the Pictures: Viral Photo of Winter Firestorm From CO Hospital
It's all there in one painterly photo: winter wildfire, the growing climate threat to the suburbs, and medical workers reduced to spectators.
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2021 as the Tipping Point: So Much for the Pioneer Spirit
2021 represented a climate change tipping point. In recounting key visual markers, we call out two images from the Dixie Fire.
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2021 as the Tipping Point: Doubled Over By Ida
2021 was a climate tipping point. And among the catastrophes, this blow from Hurricane Ida seemed to speak to a larger fate.
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Chatting the Pictures: A Telling Photo of a Cold Stricken Texas and the Heat About a Blackout
Blackout photos got Texans steaming after a historic freeze knocked out heat, power, and water. This picture proves telling in every detail.
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Whirling Fire Storm Photo: The New Unfathomable
Fire photos this ominous come at a premium. But this photo from California captures the new otherworldly state of the climate crisis.
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Global Heating and Fire: California Jumps the Gap
It's not just a bad fire season. These photos both symbolize and demonstrate how California has crossed a critical climate threshold.
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Chatting the Pictures: Viral “Covid Meets California Firestorm” Photo
In our latest video, we discuss how this photo delivers a powerful commentary on COVID-19, and a compounding global climate crisis.
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Chatting the Pictures: Iowa’s Derecho, Another Massively Destructive Climate Event
The photo circulated widely after the derecho in Iowa. In this highlight video, we discuss the contrast between beauty and destruction.
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Capturing the Audacity of Climate Youth
Most climate strike photos capture the passion and urgency of young activists. This shot speaks to their audacity.
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How Climate Change is and isn’t Fueling the U.S. Border Crisis: These Pictures aren’t that Simple
With all the visual attention given to the "caravan," how powerful to see mass migration also depicted by people taking hold of a place.
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Has Climate Change Killed the California Dream?
California is used to the edge. With the multi-year drought and now these firestorms, however, I'm wondering if climate change has tipped the scale.
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Monster Hurricanes and Eco Disaster Photos: The Indecisive Moment
These eco disaster photos allow us to take account of the slow consequences of Harvey and Irma. The fact they defy closure is the whole point.
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Harvey Unprecedented? What About 2 Weeks Ago in Sierra Leone?
Although Harvey's impact seems to be mercifully smaller in ways than recent monster storms overseas, these events call for larger ways to scale them.
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On the Mirrors at Standing Rock
The symbolism of a mirror capturing law enforcement at the top of a ridge seems pretty straightforward, right?
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Some Thoughts on the Louisiana Flood Pictures
It's hard not to look at the photos of the historic flooding in Louisiana outside the frame of the presidential campaign and our national identity.
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Mediterranean Crisis: Ecology is About People, Too
Isn't it curious how people tend to think about "ecology" as it relates to plants and air and water and less in terms of humanity and how much we look out for each other.
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What’s So Impressive About Joe Raedle’s Climate Change Slide Show at the Denver Post
Like it or not, the photo story defies the simplistic treatment of the doomsday piece. If surprising for how politically incorrect it is, Greenlanders seem to see more than a silver lining to climate change.
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