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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Spring Time in the Dust Bowl
This photograph doesn’t tell us anything important that we don’t know, but it does provide the means to think about what we would rather ignore.
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The Drought Doesn't Discriminate by Class or Ethnicity: Balazs Gardi in the Central Valley
After all the sensational and stereotyped coverage of the immigration issue, Gardi's photos parse Mother Nature from Beltway nature.
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On Damon Winter's "Divided" Photos of California's Water Crisis
The question is: how much is the photo more static and dread-laden, and how much is it more "fluid"?
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Girl With Scarf — or a Mutation?
I just can't help seeing a second face in the picture.
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Waves Like Mountains: Viral Nature Photos in the Age of Climate Change
The article explains the power and interest in these pictures in terms of their ability to capture the "raw, majestic, natural power of the sea.” But, could there be more at play here?
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Last Week’s Scariest Newswire Photo (For 81% of Americans and 61% of Republicans, at Least)
What's ironic is the way the children skip forward leaving us to wonder at what rate over their lifetimes the environment will deteriorate.
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Photos of the Year '14: Climate Change
Like a sociologist (and a humorist), Sullivan captures a sense of the drought that extends to the whole of suburbia.
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Climate Change: Finally Matter-of-Fact?
I wonder if we’re approaching a whole new level of acknowledgment and realism surrounding climate change.
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Mother Earth Isn't White … and Other Climate Change Protest Pics That Caught Our Eye
...Or, enough sightseeing, time to do something.
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James Whitlow Delano – Fifth Dispatch: Slash Cameroon’s Rainforest and Lose Ancestor’s Souls
In this longread and photojournal for BagNews Originals, photographer James Whitlow Delano details the impact of multinational logging and palm oil operations on the people and rainforest of Cameroon.
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The Photo that Sums up the Fukushima Anniversary
It's hard to tell what was most surreal as the Fukushima story surfaced for a day.
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James Whitlow Delano – Fourth Dispatch: My Odyssey to Learn What Gold Wreaked on Suriname
In this longread and photojournal for BagNews Originals, photographer James Whitlow Delano chronicles the influx of foreigners, the ecological toxification and the adverse cultural effects of intensive mining in Suriname.
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One More Commentary on the Cell Phone
Of course, anything could be happening here. Still....
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The Last Photograph
You would probably agree that the category this photo aligns with is "environment." That doesn't mean, however, that we can't start slipping around and go somewhere else with it.
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James Whitlow Delano – Third Dispatch: Tribes Losing Rainforest Battle to the Logging Conglomerates
We found the Penan building yet another barricade along the main logging road. Yet, loggers always come back with bulldozers and sweep aside any barrier in their path.
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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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Fukushima Ongoing: More Tragicomic Images As Contaminated Water Crisis Looms
I'm not sure what's more terrifying. Is it TEPCO's latest crisis, or the relative lack of international attention, urgency ... and explanatory imagery?
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