Climate Visuals

This New York City island was once a military base. Now it’s becoming a climate solutions hub – in pictures Governors Island, a 172-acre island in New York Harbor only accessible by ferry, has evolved into an incubator for solutions to facing climate challenges

This New York City island was once a military base. Now it’s becoming a climate solutions hub: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

People cook on open fires outside the Kwa Mai-Mai Market in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 22, 2023. Credit: Gulshan Khan/Climate Visuals

📸 Vendors cooking on open fires at Kwa Mai-Mai market, Johannesburg, are exposed to dirty air.

This image is one of many from our @climatevisuals.bsky.social collection, tackling the lack of realistic, accessible images of #AirPollution's impact on communities ➡️ www.cleanairfund.org/news-item/ph...

Climate Visuals, a program of @climateoutreach.bsky.social, curates images that can help journalism outlets visualize climate change, in addition to “guidance, resources & research on what makes for compelling, impactful climate change photography.” www.climatevisuals.org/climate-visu...

How do you photograph heat?

As the UK and many other places around the world experience periods of hot weather, some key pointers for accurate and engaging imagery of extreme heat:

www.climatevisuals.org/how-do-you-p...

📢 Join us to explore the connections between *diaspora communities, climate action and migration* for Refugee Week and London Climate Action Week 🌏

When: 1-4pm, Wednesday 25th June 2025.

Where: Pelican House, Bethnal Green, London E1 5QJ

Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/moving-roo...

Comms INC is proud to have worked on the Ocean Visuals collection to address the ongoing problem of ocean imagery.

The library is free to use for your ocean-climate communications. Check it out now ⤵️

The UN Ocean Conference #UNOC2025 kicks off in Nice today. Our Ocean Visuals collection is packed full of compelling photographs of the link between the ocean and climate- free for non-profit, editorial and educational use.
climatevisuals.org/oceanvisuals

Photo credit: Rodney Dekker/Climate Visuals

On #WorldEnvironmentDay, a small election of some of the visual stories of the environment, and humanity's relationship to it, that are in the Climate Visuals library.

Browse the images, as well as our evidence base and guidance resources at www.climatevisuals.org

Yesterday was #HeatActionDay - a global day for raising awareness of heat risks.
Images can play an important role in this. Our guidance, produced in collaboration with Climate Resilience For All, promotes a more accurate visual representation of extreme heat.
www.climatevisuals.org/new-guidance...

Today is #WorldPeatlandsDay. These photographs show the devastating effects of a recent wildfire on peat moorland in the Peak District. Peatlands are vitally important carbon stores - storing nearly twice the carbon stored in all of the world's forests.

www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/news/in-phot...

Stunning 📸 free to use for 🌊 NGOs... 👇

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The Daily Edit – Climate Visuals: Alastair Johnstone-Hack Climate Visuals: Alastair Johnstone-Hack A school playground in the neighbourhood of the Belchatów coal-fired power plant. Kleszczow, Poland.  November 14th 2023. Heidi: Archival and historical rec…

We spoke to APhotoEditor about the potential for engaging climate photography, the barriers, and what we need to see more of:

www.aphotoeditor.com/2025/05/20/t...

The Daily Edit – Climate Visuals: Alastair Johnstone-Hack Climate Visuals: Alastair Johnstone-Hack A school playground in the neighbourhood of the Belchatów coal-fired power plant. Kleszczow, Poland.  November 14th 2023. Heidi: Archival and historical rec…

We spoke to APhotoEditor about the potential for engaging climate photography, the barriers, and what we need to see more of:

www.aphotoeditor.com/2025/05/20/t...

Car-free streets, geothermal heating and solar panels: Paris’s new eco-district – in pictures Clichy-Batignolles, in the city’s north-west, is emblematic of the ‘15-minute’ city approach to urban planning

Car-free streets, geothermal heating and solar panels: Paris’s new eco-district – in pictures.

A new development where designers have redeveloped a 133-acre former rail yard into a dense, green, walkable neighbourhood.

www.theguardian.com/world/galler...

A seadragon and flushing worms: Environmental Photography award winners – in pictures Winning images from the 2025 of Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation Environmental Photography award, selected from 10,000 images submitted globally

A seadragon and flushing worms: Environmental Photography award winners -

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

“The world wants change” The newsrooms covering climate’s silent majority

Thanks @coveringclimatenow.org for the mention in this round up of more #The89Percent project coverage:

coveringclimatenow.org/from-us-stor...

Many images in the @climatevisuals.bsky.social library are freely available for use in The 89 Percent Project project coverage.

Our Ocean Visuals collection features many photographs highlighting the work of communities around the world to protect and support the ocean.

Browse and access the images here:
climatevisuals.org/oceanvisuals

Photo credit: Avijit Ghosh / Climate Visuals

Sir David Attenborough Ocean film 'greatest message he's told' Sir David says his new film Ocean is one of the most important of his career.

Sir David Attenborough’s new film ‘Ocean’ arrives in cinemas across the UK from tomorrow on the day of his 99th birthday.

The film highlights the ocean’s role supporting our planet and is described as the 'greatest message he's ever told'.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Under a cloud: the city smothered in smog – in pictures Saint John boasts Canada’s largest oil refinery – and a huge gulf between rich and poor. Chris Donovan captured life in a city overshadowed by pollution

Under a cloud: the city smothered in smog.

"Saint John boasts Canada’s largest oil refinery – and a huge gulf between rich and poor. Chris Donovan captured life in a city overshadowed by pollution"

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

(1/2) We’re delighted to see that photographs of the Grey to Green scheme in Sheffield have been featured as part of the Earth Stories exhibition at King’s Cross 💚

Climate Visuals images are now on display around King's Cross in London as part of the Earth Stories exhibition in the run up to EarthFest!

View the photographs, displayed on photo benches around the area, until the end of June.

climatevisuals.org/kingscrossex...

Climate Visuals images are now on display around King's Cross in London as part of the Earth Stories exhibition in the run up to EarthFest!

View the photographs, displayed on photo benches around the area, until the end of June.

climatevisuals.org/kingscrossex...

Visualising ‘Our Power, Our Planet’ on #EarthDay 2025.

Read about photography's power to tell compelling energy and environment stories, and browse our resources and image library here:

climatevisuals.org/earthday25/

Underwater Argonauts! The deep-sea scientists logging Med pollution – in pictures Juliette Pavy’s photographs of eco expeditions bring an element of lyrical storytelling to the global impact of invisible pollutants, from the Mediterranean to the Arctic

In Pictures - The deep-sea scientists logging Med pollution.

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

ICYMI: Last week we launched new guidance for photographing climate-linked migration stories. Find out more and view the ten key considerations here:

Sewage in England’s rivers and seas – in pictures Photographer Dylan Martinez spent years travelling around Britain to capture the story of the country’s broken sewage system

Sewage in England’s rivers and seas in pictures by photographer Dylan Martinez/ @reuters.com

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Sewage in England’s rivers and seas – in pictures Photographer Dylan Martinez spent years travelling around Britain to capture the story of the country’s broken sewage system

Sewage in England’s rivers and seas in pictures by photographer Dylan Martinez/@reuters.com.

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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Africa’s last glaciers: an expedition to map ice loss in the Rwenzori mountains – in pictures The project in Uganda has captured the disastrous effects of the climate crisis on a vital source of water that is central to the lives and sacred beliefs of the local Bakonzo community

Africa’s last glaciers: an expedition to map ice loss in the Rwenzori mountains – in pictures via @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...