In this book Mark Carey identifies glacial retreat as a historical reality that has played a substantial role in the political, economic, and social dramas of South America.
This is a selection of original diary entries of German explorer Alfred Wegener, who participated in the “Danmark-Expedition” led by explorer Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen (1872–1907) and is part of the virtual exhibition “The Wegener Diaries - Scientific Expeditions into the Eternal Ice” authored by historian Christian Kehrt.
This is a selection of the original diary entries of German explorer Alfred Wegener’s last Greenland expedition in 1930 and is part of the virtual exhibition “The Wegener Diaries - Scientific Expeditions into the Eternal Ice” authored by historian Christian Kehrt.
This is a selection of original diary entries of German explorer Alfred Wegener, who participated in the Danish North Greenland Expedition (1912–1913) and is part of the virtual exhibition “The Wegener Diaries - Scientific Expeditions into the Eternal Ice” authored by historian Christian Kehrt.
This film follows photographer James Balog’s multi-year record of the impacts of climate change on the Arctic.
This film documents the effect of chemical and pesticide residuals on the Inuit community of Greenland, where they are carried by oceans and snow. It also examines the situations of those around the globe who must use these pesticides to survive.
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.
Margret Grebowicz argues that James Balog’s Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), in particular the time-lapse films of glaciers receding, presents a unique example of what Guy Debord calls the ”tautological” nature of spectacle, its capacity to serve as its own evidence at the same time as it becomes a mode of relation among people.
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.
