Polar Thaw: Global Warming in the Arctic and Antarctic
Photographs from 'World View of Global Warming' by Gary Braasch

 
Link to intro
  
Link: Journey to the ice
Link: Glacier gives way
Link: Warming Adelie penguins
Link: Garden research
Link: Caribou crossing a climate watershed
Link: Native folkways eroding away
Link: Disintegrating ice shelf
Link: Polar thaw bears down
Link: Adelie penguins
Link: Boreal overview
Link: Dying forests
Link: Tipping the balance



Award-winning photographer Gary Braasch began his "World View of Global Warming" project in 1999 to raise public awareness of the growing threat of global warming by documenting its impacts, continent by continent. He began by visiting the earth's polar caps, where temperature changes have so far been the most pronounced.

In his travels, Braasch continues to photograph shrinking glaciers, coral bleaching, insect and animal range changes, rising sea levels, disease shifts and other effects of global warming.

The photographs featured here are selected from exhibitions of Braasch's work.

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See also: Global Warming Puts the Arctic on Thin Ice

Gary Braasch's photographs have appeared in more than 100 magazines, including Audubon, BBC Wildlife, Discover, International Wildlife, Life, National Geographic, National Wildlife, Natural History, Smithsonian and Terre Sauvage. To hear Gary describe his experiences photographing changing ecosystems around the world, go to NRDC's global warming roundtable page.

For more information, visit the World View of Global Warming website, or contact Gary Braasch at braasch@nehalemtel.net.

last revised 10.10.03


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