For fall, an image made at Iguazu National Park, Argentina. It's a reminder to me not only of our awe when feeling nature's power, but also that we are very actively part of nature, relying on the earth for all that we have and wielding great technical power to destroy or protect.

Work from two major continuing photography projects has resulted in current public use. Repeat images of the regrowth of nature around Mount St Helens volcano are extensively seen in a new film at the visitor center, "Mount St. Helens: Eruption of Life" by Jeff Streich of First Light Films. Two repeat photography series from the Outer Banks, made between 1999 and 2010 are now part of the digital interactive exhibit at the National Academy of Sciences Koshland Museum in Washington DC.

 

Honoring the work of Wangari Maathai, the Nobel Peace Prize winner whose Greenbelt project enfranchised women, strengthened communities, replanted millions of trees and was a force for local solutions to climate change effects. Ms Maathai, who was also a vital force in human and women's rights and African politics, died September 26 after a battle with cancer. I was privileged to meet her at a UN climate conference in 2006, and to visit one of her tree planting projects in Kenya. For more images of Kenya, please see the portfolio on Braasch Environmental Photography.

Billboard showing the retreat of one of America's most prominent glaciers installed August 2011 inside Reagan National Airport in Washington DC

The Del Mar Global Trust and World View of Global Warming are bringing the truth of climate change directly to the American public in the This Is Climate Change project. This rephotograph by Gary Braasch of an archival image is displayed in a giant back-lighted advertising panel for viewing by passengers at Reagan National airport as they arrive in Washington DC beginning August 30, 2011.

The first pair of photographs shows how the famous Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau Alaska has retreated since around the turn of the 20th C. This display will be on view for a year, and more public locations are planned, some of the them using images first published in Earth Under Fire. For more information, see WorldViewOfGlobalWarming.org and ThisIsClimateChange.org

 

Gary Braasch is a world caliber environmental photojournalist who creates remarkable images and important documentation about nature, environment, biodiversity and global warming. He is an experienced and internationally published assignment photographer. His book Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming is Changing the World, was lauded by Al Gore as "essential reading for every citizen." An exhibit of giant prints and educational images, "Climate Change in Our World," premiered at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington DC, in November 2009, and his photographs have been published as United Nations postage stamps. More...