A photojournalist captures the impacts of climate change on agriculture in Burkina Faso, and the innovative solutions these communities have responded with in adjusting to a new climate reality.
Tag: climate change
Climate Change in Northern Pakistan: A Family Journey
The stunning views at every turn along the undulating road from Islamabad to Naran set the scene for a climate change journey through the communities of Northern Pakistan.
Facing Fear in the Heart of Alaska
Filmmaker Christina Stone hikes across melting glaciers and descends into their chasms to confront climate change head on and tell its story in Alaska’s Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve.
Moses and the Marines
Indigenous Yup’ik Alaskans grapple with the relocation of their town as permafrost thaws and riverbanks erode.
Beyond the North Slope: Oil drills and discord off Alaska’s Arctic coast
Amy Mount, winner of our 2014 Emerging Environmental Writers Contest, journeys to Alaska’s Chukchi Sea to investigate the debate over offshore drilling and the stakes for subsistence whalers.
Dispatches from Inner Mongolia: Part One
Colin Brown takes to the Inner Mongolian steppe, with an eye to the effects of climate change.
Fighting for Climate Justice
SAGE Magazine sits down with Professor Maxine Burkett to discuss the growing numbers of “climate refugees.”
Voters Care About Climate, But Will Candidates Notice?
Independents are in favor of climate action, and most voters –– even Republicans! –– are in favor of solutions like revenue-neutral carbon taxes.
Wager for Rain
For decades, Southwestern scientists have tried to engineer their way out of a chronic water problem. Are their best solutions any less an act of prayer than a rain dance?
If You Love Your Electrons, Set Them Free
For a nation so devoted to capitalism, our energy markets are heavily rigged to price out clean-tech. If a carbon tax is out of the question for now, mechanisms to favor CO2-free electrons may lie in transmission.
Change Gamers
Video games are maturing. Where players once practiced delivering newspapers or dispatching demons, they are now increasingly being asked to tackle real-world problems like climate change and war. Follow author Dylan Walsh as he surveys the scene and logs on to try to save the globe.
Sage Briefs: Wrong Place, Wrong Clime–Will Marine Sanctuaries Falter as Temperatures Rise?
he golden promise of marine protected areas – ocean swaths set aside for the management of natural and cultural marine resources – may prove empty by mid-century. As global climate warms, so does ocean temperature, forcing species habitats pole-ward. Marine protected areas (MPAs) don’t tail along. Though the United States manages a network of more than 1,600 MPAs, climate change, […]