Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Global Warming Refugees

A photo essay on people who have been forced to move because of global warming:

http://www.worldpicturenews.com/web/ShowLightbox.aspx?lightbox=GlobalWarmingRefugees07

Monday, January 15, 2007

a start

This blog will be the home base for an environmental multimedia project conducted by Cecile Gregoriades, Jessy Xavier, Steph Hsia, Megan McGehee, and Celina Fang.

To start, some links:

NASA links:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/GlobalWarm1999/
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/ClimateClues/
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/vanishing/


global warming
http://www.discover.com/issues/jan-05/cover/

global warming sinks to ocean floor
http://www.discover.com/issues/dec-06/rd/CO2-lake-under-oceanfloor/

saw this on interactivenarratives.org--it's about how the oceans are responding to pollution:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/oceans/la-oceans-series,0,7842752.special

Al Gore's book, "An Inconvenient Truth" uses stitched-together satellite images earth on cloudless days over 13 years to show the melting of ice in different areas. It would be interesting to use archival pictures of different places say 50 years earlier to show the same place. This article talks about tracking the effects of global warming through family pictures: