Ghostly Images of Plants, Landscapes—and a Baseball Stadium—Reveal a Desert in Flux
Through LiDAR scans, UK-based studio ScanLAB Projects captured the Sonoran Desert in haunting detail, revealing a landscape on the brink.
October 09, 2025
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An Architecture of Care: Passive House Designer Andrew Michler Embraces a Hyperlocal Approach
Andrew Michler redefines sustainable design through hyperlocal, compassionate architecture shaped by climate, culture, and the evolving lives of its occupants.
June 05, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
The Hyperlocal: Jess Lanham
Since the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fires, Jess Lanham has been creating work about the stark changes in her hometown of Las Vegas, New Mexico, using fragments and wildfire ash.
March 07, 2025
“The Doors Were Breaking, Things Were Moving”: Inside the Roswell Museum After Disastrous 500-Year Flood
Museum insiders offer firsthand accounts of the flash flood that breached Roswell Museum in October—and an update on the uphill battle for remediation.
December 19, 2024
Fires Fires
"Fires Fires" is a personal essay by Caitlin Lorraine Johnson about the effect of global uncertainty on the small scale of a life.
September 06, 2024
FEMA Artworks: Climate Resiliency, Photography and Storytelling at Ogden Contemporary Arts
At Ogden Contemporary Arts, artists share stories of resilience in the face of climate change. On view through October 13, 2024, in Ogden, Utah.
August 21, 2024
Work in Progress with Tyler Burton
Multimedia artist Tyler Burton mixes methods to create sculptural works that communicate the effects of climate disaster on California landscapes and move towards mending our relationship with the land.
January 23, 2024
Southwest Cities Win Millions of Dollars from 2023 Bloomberg Public Art Challenge Awards
Bloomberg Public Art Challenge funding will help Phoenix and Salt Lake City address climate change, and Houston examine homelessness, through temporary public art that engages artists and community members.
November 21, 2023
No Longer a Hypothetical: If the Sky Were Orange: Art in the Time of Climate Change
If the Sky Were Orange: Art in the Time of Climate Change looks at global warming with a right brain/left brain lineup of scientists, journalists, and artists.
October 24, 2023
FeatureArizonaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
All Things Visible: Author Lydia Millet on the Sonoran Desert, Strange Morphologies, and Small Acts of Courage
Tucson-based author Lydia Millet reflects on themes of climate change, place, and privilege in her new book Dinosaurs.
March 03, 2023
ReviewColoradoVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Entanglements at the Center for Visual Art, Denver
The group exhibition Entanglements looks at the many ways humans impact the environment, revealing a tangled and often fraught web of relationships with nature.
March 03, 2023
ArtistsArizonaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Bryan David Griffith
Bryan David Griffith explores environmental and climate issues through creative intersections of photography and found natural elements.
March 03, 2023
Nika Kaiser Builds the Beginning of the Climate-Changed End
In The Passage, Tucson artist Nika Kaiser reimagines endings and the possibilities of a post-human future inspired by the reemergence of Glen Canyon.
April 13, 2022
