climate change

A desert landscape; abandoned crumbling hotels; dry swimming pools; dead palm trees; a salty lake with white salt-crusted beaches and dead fish. Welcome to the Salton Sea, an apocalyptic place in the forgotten southeast corner of California. The Salton Sea is one of the first victims of climate change. When choices have to be made about where to send the reduced quantities of water some win, some lose.

Swedish design group ADDI has come up with an cutting-edge polar bear lifejacket design concept to help polar bears navigate the changes in their habitat. For the first time in history scientists are reporting that polar bears are drowning in the Arctic. One of the contributing factors is that polar bears are now forced to swim longer distances to encounter ice, and the longer swims make the creatures vulnerable to exhaustion, hypothermia and becoming swamped by ocean waves. "Polar bears are drowning because the ice is melting.

A desert landscape; abandoned crumbling hotels; dry swimming pools; dead palm trees; a salty lake with white salt-crusted beaches and dead fish. Welcome to the Salton Sea, an apocalyptic place in the forgotten southeast corner of California. The Salton Sea is one of the first victims of climate change. When choices have to be made about where to send the reduced quantities of water some win, some lose.

 

Bangladesh, a low-lying country slightly larger than England in size, is renowned as the most densely populated country in the world. Home to 150 million people, Bangladesh is also one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change - particularly increases in sea level.

About 80% of the country consists of floodplain with an elevation from less than one metre to three metres above sea level.

The future of our warming world with rising seas levels is the focus of a series of illustrations by New York-based designers Studio Lindfors. In the striking and serene images, the designers explore what New York will look like in a few hundred years time. Visit: http://www.greenmuze.com/art/artists/1881-rising-water-world-images.html

British Green Knickers has created a range of Climate Change Knickers that are perfect for the environmentalist. When the underwear warms up, the thermochromic (heat sensitive) ink in the tiny earths turn deep blue to simulate the sea inundating the land due to the effects of global warming.