CBC Radio: Photographer James Balog’s Struggle to Capture Climate Change
From Iceland to Antarctica to the summit of Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro, American photographer James Balog has made it his mission to document the...
New York Times Magazine: Watching the Planet Burn
‘‘In wildness is the preservation of the world.’’ Henry David Thoreau coined this adage in the 1850s, the same decade during which Edwin...
Huffington Post: Art and Climate Change – Inspiring a Sustainable Future
"Huh?" That was my initial reaction when I heard about the idea of art inspired by climate change. After some reflection, however, I...
Royal Photographic Society interview with James Balog: Thin Ice
"I am hanging from a 6mm climbing cord, clipped into a bolt, which has been drilled into a smooth rock face on the side...
Daily Camera: A Boulder scientist’s “Moss Zombies” field work on Baffin Island
"The dead speak: Long-dead tundra plants tell us that current warming cannot be explained by Earth's natural climate variability." This article is an Editorial...
Huffington Post: Extreme Ice Survey’s Farewell to the Antarctic Peninsula
December 18, 2014 It's hard to believe, but in less than a year, we've expanded our network of time-lapse cameras to include 16 new...
Huffington Post: Extreme Ice Survey – Palmer Station Cameras
The marked retreat of the Marr Ice Piedmont over the past few decades has literally changed the coastline of Anvers Island, a heavily...
Scientific American: Extreme Ice Survey – Water and Electronics Don’t Mix
At the southern tip of South Georgia Island lies the six mile-long Drygalski Fjord, a narrow split containing Risting Glacier and two of...
NY Times: Jeanne Gang on Climate Change, Crystals and Her Design Miami Installation
Design installations are often steeped in commentary about materiality, politics and the environment, but rarely do they tackle these issues head-on. For its...
Design Miami Design Log: Thinning Ice
She [Jeanne Gang] had also become interested in James Balog’s Extreme Ice Survey, a long-term project that documents glacier shrinkage using time-lapse photography...