Over the course of the 15-year Extreme Ice Survey project, photographer James Balog and his team brought some of the world’s first and most compelling visual evidence of climate change to the global stage as he depicted the rapid melting of glaciers around the world. Chasing Time is a meditative exploration of time and mortality, following James and his crew as they bring the decades-long project to a close, cataloging more than one million images in the process.

Chasing Time

Born of a broken relationship, megafires rage where good fire once lived. In Northern California’s Lassen National Forest, wildlife biologist Alyssa enters ground zero of the 2021 Dixie Fire—one of the largest and most severe wildfires in state history - in search of the elusive but resilient Pacific marten. Photo credit: Maddy Rifka

From Lassen, With Love

Musician and conservationist, Griffin Washburn (aka Goth Babe) sets out to explore The Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska, one of the largest remaining rainforests in the world, hoping to showcase the natural beauty and why these sacred places are important to our natural world and our connectivity to nature and ourselves. Photo credit: Griff Washburn

Paddling Under Giants

IHAMBA traces the enduring connection between the Batwa tribe and the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest of Southwestern Uganda. Once known as forest peoples, the Batwa were forcibly evicted from their homelands in the early 1990s when ihamba — the last remaining tract of forest — became a park for gorilla conservation. Told through the voices of Batwa elders and community leaders, this is a story of memory, resilience, and resistance.

Ihamba

In the fastest-warming place on Earth, two friends and their canine sidekick uncover how the world's smallest and fattest reindeer are thriving because of rising temperatures. But are they seeing a positive side-effect of climate change in the Arctic, or witnessing the end of innocence for Svalbard reindeer?

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