Art sculpture and nature’s fragility

Climate Change ice sculpture
Credits: Nicole Dextras

Environmental artist Nicole Dextras builds giant words made of ice in vulnerable and cold landscapes. She constructs wooden letter frames that she fills with water and leaves outside to freeze. Eventually they melt – which she says “subverts the power of the English language and commercial signage by depicting how vulnerable they are”.

James Hansen: Why I must speak out about climate change

James Hansen, head of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, gave a talk at the TED conference in Long Beach, CA on February 29th where he laid out the case for taking urgent action to reduce greenhouse emissions.