Chasing Ice
This film follows photographer James Balog’s multi-year record of the impacts of climate change on the Arctic.
This film follows photographer James Balog’s multi-year record of the impacts of climate change on the Arctic.
In this Oscar-nominated documentary, Werner Herzog travels to the Antarctic community of McMurdo Station, the hub of the US Antarctic Program, to film the life conditions of humans and animals in this extreme landscape.
Detailing the converging human and geological histories of Glacier National Park, US, this article traces the demise of the park’s primary attraction, the glaciers.
In this chapter of the German-language version of her virtual exhibition, “Mensch und Natur in der deutschen Literatur (Human-Nature Relations in German Literature),” Sabine Wilke examines mountains and glacial environments in German-language literary descriptions. Whereas the German Romantic poets still highlighted mountainous nature as deeply ambiguous, Goethe’s Faust tried to understand mountainous nature in its materiality through scientific studies. Modernism focuses on the more often destructive results of human-nature entanglements. For the English-language version of this exhibition, click here.
In this chapter of her virtual exhibition, “Human-Nature Relations in German Literature,” Sabine Wilke examines mountains and glacial environments in German-language literary descriptions. Whereas the German Romantic poets still highlighted mountainous nature as deeply ambiguous, Goethe’s Faust tried to understand mountainous nature in its materiality through scientific studies. Modernism focuses on the more often destructive results of human-nature entanglements. For the German-language version of this exhibition, click here.