When nature calls: 12 artists answering back to climate change – in pictures
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Trees that can draw, melting glaciers you can call on the phone – and what life will be like as an Arctic explorer in the year 2100. Artists from all over the world are responding to climate change in beautiful ways. Here are some of the best ...
Nicole Dextras's Mobile Garden Dress, 2011, has a skirt made from pots full of edible plants and a skirt that can double as a tent. Part of her Weedrobes series
HighWaterLine, Manhattan Beach, New York, 2007 – Eve Mosher marked a 70-mile line in chalk around New York at 10 feet above sea level, showing how dire the potential flooding from global warming could be
For The Lake Project, David Maisel photographed Owens Lake, once a 200-square-mile lake in California, which was depleted in the early 20th century to give water to Los Angeles. What little water remains has such a high concentration of minerals, and such bacterial growth, that it is now a deep blood red
Cleo reading Tome II, 2009. Basia Irland makes giant books out of ice and releases them in rivers. The 'text' of each book is seeds from local plants; as the ice melts, seeds are released and the plants start to grow by the rivers
For Champs d'Ozone (2007) HeHe – Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen – overlaid live images of the Paris skyline with vibrant colours that showed the unseen pollutants in the air. Sensors placed around the city provided live data on air quality, and the colours in the artworks adapted to show real-time Parisian pollution
Naoya Hatakeyama has spent years photographing Japan's limestone industry. For his Blast series (#08316, 1999, pictured) he captures the daily detonations to free limestone from mountains. He works with bomb experts to place his camera as close as possible to the explosions without it being hit with flying debris
Extreme Weather Events IV: Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 2005. Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris travel to the sites of natural disasters, capturing everything from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina to the aftermath of forest fires and melting glaciers
United Visual Artists created an immersive installation, High Arctic, 2011, that let people interact with the 3,000 glaciers that will eventually melt to nothing. Visitors were able to see what life would be like as an Arctic explorer in the year 2100
Turner prize winner Simon Starling crossed the only 'true desert' in Europe – the Tabernas – on an improvised electric bike in 2004. The Tabernas is growing every year due to climate change and bad land management
For her 2007 project Vatnajökull (the sound of), Katie Paterson left a gallery empty apart from a telephone number on the wall. Visitors calling the number were connected to a microphone embedded in Europe's largest glacier, which has been eroding since 1930. All callers could hear was the creak of ice and the trickle of melting water
In 2008, Nyaba Ouedraogo went to a six-mile-wide cemetery for abandoned computers in Accra, Ghana. Ghana is one of the main recipients of the world's electrical waste. For Hell of Copper, he spent eight months on the perilous, toxic site where many children work
Dragon Spruce, 2012 – for Tim Knowles's Tree Drawing series, he attached pens to branches and rigged up canvases so the wind and trees could create their own art, handing control back to the natural world
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