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The Mangrove Forests exhibit is situated in the Hall of Ocean Life at the American Museum of Natural History, where the huge blue whale is. As soon as I entered I noticed a dark light setting to mimic the under… Continue Reading →
Forests around the world is being taken down every day to make way for industrial agricultural expansion. Logging and mining clears forest areas for their natural resources. This causes the lost of millions of hectares of forest loss each year…. Continue Reading →
Artist Chris Jordan was inspired by landscape photographer Ansel Adams’ pieces to create Denali Denial. He added thousands of GMC Yukon Denali logos to one of Adam’s images, and changed half of the logos to read “denial” instead of Denali,… Continue Reading →
In a climate justice exhibition by the ArtsConnection, a number of young artists created pieces to portray climate change in their perspective as the rising generation facing this crisis headfirst. I think what we can get from this painting is… Continue Reading →
Ocean acidification and rising sea temperature is the result of the increased carbon emission from human activity. Warmer waters are affecting the survival of many coral reefs. Increased carbon increases the acidity of sea water leading to erosion of corals’… Continue Reading →
Colossal, a biosciences company, wants to resurrect the woolly mammoth by creating a hybrid between an Asian elephant and mammoths. This will be achieved by using CRSPR-Cas9, a gene editing tool, to splice bits of DNA from frozen mammoth specimens… Continue Reading →
Ocean acidification is affecting the livelihood of beautiful coral reefs and the marine life within them. The increase of carbon emissions in the atmosphere from human activity is absorbed by the ocean. The carbon will raise hydrogen ion concentration in… Continue Reading →
Jill Pelto is a watercolor artist who aims to display scientific research through art. She is a graduate of the University of Maine with a degree in Studio Art and Earth Science. Rather than expressing the state of our climate… Continue Reading →
Simon Norfolk, a British-Nigerian photographer, photographed the Lewis Glacier in Kenya which lost 90% of its volume since it was first mapped in 1934. He chose this particular glacier because it has been so well recorded over the last century…. Continue Reading →
After our class where we viewed and discussed artistic works by both Olafur Eliasson (“Ice Watch”) and Michael Wang (“Carbon Copies”) I wanted to elaborate on my feelings in reaction to seeing Eliasson and Wang’s work after reflecting for a… Continue Reading →