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climatestorytellers.org by Subhankar Banerjee | Aug. 26, 2010 (Special Report)

U.S. Climate Bill Is Dead While So Much Life On Our Earth Continues To Perish

Last month the U.S. Senate finally put an end to the climate bill. Since then several opinion pieces have been published, including articles in Yale Environment 360, Grist, TomDispatch, The Nation, and The Hill. Some of these point out why the U.S. climate movement failed, while others call for a new movement.

Global warming is a crisis: for all lands, for all oceans, for all rivers, for all forests, for all humans, for all birds, for all mammals, ... Full Story »

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by Marsha Iverson - Aug. 30, 2010

This piece is a heartfelt, eloquent elegy for old growth forests worldwide, and the consequences of unprecedented forest death for life on Earth. Responding to the U.S. Congress' failure to address climate change, Banerjee launched an innovative approach to the problem we all face. ClimateStoryTellers.org frames the simple, frightening facts of climate change at the personal level. This narrative marks the site's debut with a detailed account of Banerjee's personal observations of the causes and consequences of forest collapse around the globe, going beyond pure science to the universal terms of "home" and "food."

Subhankar Banerjee is a renowned photographer, writer, activist, and the founder of Climate Storytellers. His in-depth photo study of the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR) documents the interplay of nature and humankind in this wild, rugged place, and the struggle to protect this fragile ecosystem. Banerjee has now turned his powers of observation to the more recognizable and equally alien desert Southwest. Well-grounded in environmental science, Banerjee's prose and ... More »

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