In the early nineteen-fifties, the United States government embarked on a top-secret endeavor to build a network of nuclear-missile launch stations beneath Greenland’s ice sheet. The initiative, known as Project Iceworm, faced a long list of...
Since January 25, after sunset, the shades on a window-walled gallery in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village have rolled up, and the sidewalk outside has been cast in a cool, blue glow. The color comes from a four-and-a-half-hour-long video of ice...
America’s First Climate Change Museum Has Opened - The Climate Museum has opened (at least temporarily) at the Parsons School of Design in New York. Its bold mission: To change the national conversation about climate change through art. The...
You don’t get a lot of ice cores in downtown Manhattan. But visitors to the inaugural show at New York’s Climate Museum can watch 269 soothing minutes of film featuring nothing but turquoise ice cores, drilled from the depths of the Greenland Ice...
“Why do we need a climate museum?” After the nonprofit Climate Museum was chartered in New York three years ago, founder Miranda Massie and her colleagues asked hundreds, if not thousands, of people for their thoughts...
The world’s first climate change museum opens its inaugural exhibition, exploring polar ice through art at the Parsons School of Design in Manhattan. “The challenging nature of science communication, and especially climate communication, is one...
Negli ultimi anni i cambiamenti climatici hanno assunto un ruolo sempre più centrale nel dibattito pubblico. Istituzioni, associazioni e semplici cittadini hanno una maggiore conoscenza, iniziano a porsi delle domande e chiedono delle...
Layer upon layer of snow, built up over thousands of years, ice cores are an archive of Earth’s past. Taken from ice sheets and glaciers, these cores are used for scientific discovery of the climate changes that Earth may have gone through. This...
Take a walk down Fifth Avenue in NYC this time of year and you'll likely be greeted by storefront upon storefront of holiday displays showing off the latest fashions. Yesterday, the street welcomed its latest window arrangement—a giant image...