The Blue Hole
Castalia, Ohio, USA
Closed 1990
Chacaltaya Glacier
El Alto, Bolivia Melted 2009 I picked the glacier in Bolivia out of pure vicarious pleasure — my dearest lovely twin boys traveled there to 5000 metres above sea level to the place where the glacier had melted away to see the disused ski lift – they were sending back pictures for me to learn […]
Great Barrier Reef
Australia
Destruction ongoing
Icebergs
The Ocean
Melting
Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Island, Australia
Bushfire 2019
Maltepe Süreyya Beach
Instanbul, Turkey Filled-in 1980s This was a meeting point for young people’s summer joy and dreams . . . but today the sea is not there anymore! Ediz T. This was a beloved beach outside of Istanbul. The city approved plans to fill in the beach in 1976 and since the 1980s the little pavilion […]
Mer de Glace
Chamonix, France
Melting
Old Man of the Mountain
Franconia, New Hampshire, USA Collapsed 2003 For me the collapse of the Old Man of the Mountain represented a poignant intersection of historical and geologic time. The attempt to affix the human image to the landscape became in this case a demonstration of our impermanence as a species. Mark M. Here is an idea for […]
Tea Circle Oaks
Taliesin, Wisconsin, USA
Storm 1998
Tunnel Tree
Calaveras Park, California, USA
Fell 2017
White Terraces
New Zealand Volcanic Eruption 1886 The Pink and White Terraces (Reo Māori: Te Otukapuarangi) on the edge of Rotomahana were one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most famous sites before the eruption of Tarawera in the 1800s. People used to visit from all over the world to sit in the thermal pools. The tourism industry at […]