Climate Change via visual storytelling
Climate breakdown is not only about emissions, it touches every aspect of our lives and it has consequences for everyone but especially for people in countries who have least contributed to the problem.
These resources use mainly visual storytelling to point out the many isses connected to climate breakdown.
Warning
Reading the articles can be quite overwhelming. If you would feel hopeless, take care of yourself, and you can get inspired for action in the section "Social Action" or “Technology / Natural solutions”.
Social action
The case for climate rage
Climate Change Ain’t the First Existential Threat
Learning from other non-white struggles
Climate breakdown: capitalism and democracy
A postmortem for survival: On science failure and action on climate change
Our house is on fire: Greta thunberg urges leaders to act on climate
Across the globe millions join biggest climate protest ever
How to stop the climate crisis: Six lessons from the campaign that saved the ozone
Flora / Enviro
Feedback loops
Climate and economic risks 'threaten 2008 style systemic collapse'
Risks of 'domino effect' of tipping points greater than thought study says
New climate 'feedback loop' discovered in freshwater lakes
Regional impact
US: We broke down what climate change will do, region by region
EU: How will we be affected?
EU: Climate change 'will push european cities towards breaking point'
EU: [Study ref] Future heat-waves, droughts and floods in 571 European cities
Warming
Global risk of deadly heat
A 30-year alarm on the reality of climate change
Hurricane season explained maps photos
Droughts
Europe: Hot dry summer has led drought
Australia: The cancer eating away at farms
Iran: Drought turns part of Iran into a new dust bowl
Oceans / Rivers
Our oceans broke heat records in 2018 and the consequences are catastrophic
Special report on the ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate
Rising sea levels
[DataViz] Rising sea levels
Scope of Great Barrier Reef's massive coral bleaching alarms scientists
The race to save the river Ganges
Ice caps
Arctic
Antarctica
Greenland
Deforestation
We already know what Jair Bolsonaro’s vision for the Amazon would look like
One football pitch of forest lost every second in 2017, data reveals
[DataViz] From rainforest to your cupboard: the real story of palm oil
Agriculture
[DataViz] Yields and land use in agriculture
Saltwater is invading rice fields and damaging crops
Europe's blistering heatwave is ruining this year's harvest
Phosphate fertiliser 'crisis' threatens world food supply
Overconsumption
Fauna
Great dying: planets worst extinction
Oceans suffocating as huge dead zones quadruple since 1950
Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature'
World's fishing fleets mapped from orbit
Biological annihilation via the ongoing sixth mass extinction
[DataViz] Migration in motion: Visualizing species movements due to climate change
Emissions
Despite the Paris Agreement, CO2 emissions are rising again
CO₂ and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
[Infographics] Carbon budget
China’s emissions: more than U.S. plus Europe, and still rising
Global is the new local: Pollution changes clouds, climate downstream
London: Check if your london nursery school or college is exposed to toxic air
London: Air Quality Network
Political
I’m an enviro journalist, but I never write about overpopulation. Here’s why.
[DataViz] The defenders tracker
Doomsday clock: A new abnormal - it’s still 2 minutes to midnight
How a Melting Arctic Changes Everything
(Part I / II / III)
(Part I / II / III)
Climate change creates a new migration crisis for Bangladesh
Changing climate forces desperate Guatemalans to migrate
Mali Niger climate change and conflict make explosive mix
Brazil: Rainforest pays the price for the country’s crisis
How easily we could have solved the climate crisis
The geopolitical impact of China's approach to fighting climate change
Guam's ecological fate is in the hands of the U.S. military
Kids sue US government climate change
Poland shows no signs of breaking coal addiction
Save us, save the world - Pacific climate warriors taking the fight to the UN
Health
Mental health - dealing with climate change
The case for climate rage
Parenting children generation of climate change
Thinking about climate on a dark dismal morning
I'm worried having a baby will make climate change worse
This figure demonstrates my conflicted feelings about having children
Impact of climate change on health
Economy / Capitalism
Between the devil and the green new deal
We cannot fight climate change with capitalism, says report
The hidden environmental consequences of tax havens
U.S. climate report warns of damaged environment and shrinking economy
Climate change’s giant impact on the economy: 4 key issues
Insurers will be hard-hit by climate change but they're not investing in low-carbon economy