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John Akomfrah’s ‘Purple’ Is Climate Change Art That Asks Audiences to Feel

An hour-long multimedia exhibit about climate change, now at the Hirshhorn Museum in D.C., inundates viewers with sound, imagery and emotion.

By Kiley Bense

A general view of John Akomfrah: Purple exhibition at The Curve, Barbican on Oct. 5, 2017 in London, United Kingdom. Credit: Anthony Harvey/Getty Images for Barbican Art Gallery
Officials examine a dead beached whale on Rockaway beach on Dec. 13, 2022 in the Queens borough of New York City. Credit: Bryan Bedder/Getty Images

Why Saving the Whales Means Saving Ourselves

By Kiley Bense

A 3D satellite image of the Mount Unzen Volcano, on the Island of Kyushu, East of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1993. Two years earlier, volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft died there, studying the eruption. (Photo by Planet Observer/Universal Images Group via Getty Images.

Two Volcanologists on the Edge of the Abyss, Searching for the Secrets of the Earth

By Kiley Bense

People enjoy the sunset on the beach of North Sea near the village of Lakolk, Denmark, on Sept. 3, 2022. Credit: Sergei Gapon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

What Denmark’s North Sea Coast Can Teach Us About the Virtues of Respecting the Planet

By Kiley Bense

A gasoline station attendant pumps diesel into a car at a filling station on March 23, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. Photo Illustration by Sean Gallup/Getty Images

Imagining a World Without Fossil Fuels

By Kiley Bense

In Louisiana, Climate Change Threatens the Preservation of History

By Kiley Bense

Indigenous activist Bitate Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau, poses at the premiere of National Geographic Documentary Film 'The Territory', in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Sept. 5, 2022. Credit: Miguel Schincariol/AFP via Getty Images

Listening to the Endangered Sounds of the Amazon Rainforest

By Kiley Bense

A farmer in Kansas during the Great Dust Bowl of the 1930s attempts to work formerly fertile land buried in dust. Credit: © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images

The Poet Franny Choi Contemplates the End of the World (and What Comes Next)

By Kiley Bense

A student shuffles through a stack of used books at the U.C. Irvine bookstore on July 30, 2008. Credit: Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

The Surprising History of Climate Change Coverage in College Textbooks

By Kiley Bense

A drawing of a chestnut tree by American artist Thomas Cole. Photo Credit: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Why the Language of Climate Change Matters

By Kiley Bense

A woman reads a book in Hyde Park April 21, 2018 in London, United Kingdom. Credit: Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images

As the Climate Changes, Climate Fiction Is Changing With It

By Kiley Bense

Climate activist Greta Thunberg, marching in Stockholm in June 2022, was inspired in part by gun control protests led by students who survived the Parkland shooting in Florida in 2018. Credit: Jonas Gratzer/Getty Images.

Finding the Antidote to Climate Anxiety in Stories About Taking Action

By Kiley Bense

Writer Annie Proulx at the Royal Theatre on January 27, 2014 in Madrid, Spain. Credit: Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images

In a New Book, Annie Proulx Shows Us How to Fall in Love with Wetlands

By Kiley Bense

Egyptian-Lebanese artist Bahia Shehab stands inside her installation "Heaven and Hell in the Anthropocene," which raises awareness about climate issues on display at the COP27 climate summit in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, on November 14, 2022. Credit: Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images.

The Art at COP27 Offered Opportunities to Move Beyond ‘Empty Words’

By Kiley Bense

True color satellite image of the Earth showing Asia, half in shadow, with cloud coverage, and the sun. This image in orthographic projection was compiled from data acquired by LANDSAT 5 and 7 satellites. Credit: Planet Observer/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

How Should We Think About the End of the World as We Know it?

By Kiley Bense

Smoke hangs low in the air at Big Basin Redwoods State Park as some redwoods are still on fire on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020 in Boulder Creek, California. Frederick Law Olmstead contributed his expertise in landscape architecture toward the creation of the California State Park system. Credit: Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Iconic Olmsted Parks Threatened Around the Country by All Manifestations of Climate Change

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Rainbow and the Napali coast. Kauai. Hawaii. Credit: VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Finally, a Climate Change Silver Lining: More Rainbows

By Katelyn Weisbrod

The city of Vancouver, British Columbia, is seen through a haze on a scorching hot day, June 29, 2021. Credit: Don MacKinnon/AFP via Getty Images

How Climate Change Influences Temperatures in 1,000 Cities Around the World

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Greater sage grouse jockey for position during mating season on the Mcstay ranch in Craig, Colorado in 2015. Credit: Joe Amon/The Denver Post via Getty Images

What’s Good for Birds Is Good for People and the Planet. But More Than Half of Bird Species in the U.S. Are in Decline

By Katelyn Weisbrod

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