Natural causes: artists address climate crisis in inventive ways – The Art Newspaper
What can art do about a crisis? This is a question that a growing number of museums across the world have been faced with as they mount exhibitions addressing the climate emergency. In the past six months alone, institutions ranging from London’s Hayward Gallery (Dear Earth, now closed) to the Museum of Modern Art in New York (Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism, until 20 January 2024) have opened eco-themed exhibitions. This month, a spate of new shows across London take up the baton, offering fresh perspectives on the subject’s relationship to wider society and taking the conversation out into the “real world”…
‘Take It Down and They’ll Return’: The Stunning Revival of the Penobscot River – reasons to be cheerful
A historic project in Maine shows that when dams are removed, a river and its fish can recover with surprising speed…
Record-setting storm wallops East Coast with flooding, high winds – the Washington Post
A historically intense December coastal storm is blasting the Northeast on Monday after unleashing heavy rainfall, coastal flooding and high winds from Florida to the Mid-Atlantic. More than 700,000 customers had no power midday Monday as gusts surpassed 60 mph in many locations in eastern New England…
Long Story Shorts: What Is a Core Sample? – Hakai Institute
Have you ever wanted to go back in time— just to see what it was like? Well, scientists have figured out how …sort of… Watch this video to find out how tree, ice, and sediment cores can tell us all sorts of things about the past…