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Notes Photo April 7, 2015

On Damon Winter's "Divided" Photos of California's Water Crisis

The question is: how much is the photo more static and dread-laden, and how much is it more "fluid"?

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Notes Photo March 29, 2015

Girl With Scarf — or a Mutation?

I just can't help seeing a second face in the picture.

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Notes Photo March 26, 2015

Waves Like Mountains: Viral Nature Photos in the Age of Climate Change

The article explains the power and interest in these pictures in terms of their ability to capture the "raw, majestic, natural power of the sea.” But, could there be more at play here?

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Notes Photo February 2, 2015

Last Week’s Scariest Newswire Photo (For 81% of Americans and 61% of Republicans, at Least)

What's ironic is the way the children skip forward leaving us to wonder at what rate over their lifetimes the environment will deteriorate.

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Notes Photo December 18, 2014

Photos of the Year '14: Climate Change

Like a sociologist (and a humorist), Sullivan captures a sense of the drought that extends to the whole of suburbia.

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Notes Photo October 1, 2014

Climate Change: Finally Matter-of-Fact?

I wonder if we’re approaching a whole new level of acknowledgment and realism surrounding climate change.

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Notes Photo September 21, 2014

Mother Earth Isn't White … and Other Climate Change Protest Pics That Caught Our Eye

...Or, enough sightseeing, time to do something.

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Notes Photo May 19, 2014

James Whitlow Delano – Fifth Dispatch: Slash Cameroon’s Rainforest and Lose Ancestor’s Souls

In this longread and photojournal for BagNews Originals, photographer James Whitlow Delano details the impact of multinational logging and palm oil operations on the people and rainforest of Cameroon.

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Notes Photo March 12, 2014

The Photo that Sums up the Fukushima Anniversary

It's hard to tell what was most surreal as the Fukushima story surfaced for a day.

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Notes Photo December 12, 2013

James Whitlow Delano – Fourth Dispatch: My Odyssey to Learn What Gold Wreaked on Suriname

In this longread and photojournal for BagNews Originals, photographer James Whitlow Delano chronicles the influx of foreigners, the ecological toxification and the adverse cultural effects of intensive mining in Suriname.

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Notes Photo November 25, 2013

One More Commentary on the Cell Phone

Of course, anything could be happening here. Still....

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Notes Photo November 4, 2013

The Last Photograph

You would probably agree that the category this photo aligns with is "environment." That doesn't mean, however, that we can't start slipping around and go somewhere else with it.

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Notes Photo September 11, 2013

James Whitlow Delano – Third Dispatch: Tribes Losing Rainforest Battle to the Logging Conglomerates

We found the Penan building yet another barricade along the main logging road. Yet, loggers always come back with bulldozers and sweep aside any barrier in their path.

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Notes Photo September 4, 2013

What’s So Impressive About Joe Raedle’s Climate Change Slide Show at the Denver Post

Like it or not, the photo story defies the simplistic treatment of the doomsday piece. If surprising for how politically incorrect it is, Greenlanders seem to see more than a silver lining to climate change.

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Notes Photo August 7, 2013

Fukushima Ongoing: More Tragicomic Images As Contaminated Water Crisis Looms

I'm not sure what's more terrifying. Is it TEPCO's latest crisis, or the relative lack of international attention, urgency ... and explanatory imagery?

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Notes Photo June 25, 2013

James Whitlow Delano – Second Dispatch: As the Rainforest Goes, So Go the Batek?

I was mingling with one of the oldest tribes of humanity and they may vanish before most of the human family even know that they had ever existed at all. It may sound heady, but I am honestly trying to do my part to prevent this from happening.

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Notes Photo June 22, 2013

Singapore: Eco Apocalypse Pics of the Week

These are two of the newswire photos from the intense pollution in Singapore capturing the "haves" doing their usual "while Rome burns."

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Notes Photo May 13, 2013

James Whitlow Delano – First Dispatch: Return to the Rainforest

Over the months ahead, I want to make some sense about how a long-term project on the needless destruction of the equatorial rainforest came to be an obsession and how I have attempted to visually portray this form of daylight robbery.

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