Many actors—including scientists, journalists, artists, and campaigning organizations—
create visualizations of climate change. In doing so, they evoke climate change in particular …

Local knowledge has been proposed as a place‐based tool to ground‐truth climate models
and to narrow their geographic sensitivity. To assess the potential role of local knowledge in …

Images of melting glaciers dominate the pictorial language of climate change, powerful
symbols of a fragile earth at risk from the impacts of climate change (Figure 1). 1 The …

Climate change has been a significant area of scientific concern since the late 1970s, but
has only recently entered mainstream culture and politics. However, as media coverage of …

Design, Ecology, Politics links social and ecological theory to design theory and practice,
critiquing the ways in which the design industry perpetuates unsustainable development …

This essay attempts to address the lack of critical analyses of images of toxins by examining
the photography of landscape artists whose goal is to create a presence for contaminated …

Global environmental change (GEC) is an increasingly discussed phenomenon in the
scientific literature as evidence of its presence and impacts continues to grow. Yet, while the …

This article investigates how polar bears were established as icons of climate change in the
popular science magazine National Geographic. In a multistep process, anthropomorphized …

Can the phenomenon called “global climate change” be witnessed firsthand with the naked
senses? The question provokes sharply divergent answers from different individuals and …

Indigenous Peoples and local communities with nature-dependent livelihoods are
disproportionately affected by climate change impacts, but their experience, knowledge and …