Data Visualizations

Welcome to the Anthropocene

Credit: Owen Gaffney and Félix Pharand-Deschênes. Welcome to the Anthropocene. 2012 Stockholm Resilience Centre / Future Earth / Globaia (CC BY 4.0)

A three minute journey through the last 250 years of human history, from the start of the Industrial Revolution, charting the growth of humanity into a global force on an equivalent scale to major geological processes.

Curated by Lea Rekow for BifrostOnline

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Heat Build Up

How are societies in the Circumpolar North affected by climate change?

Due to climate change, threats to cultural heritage along coastal regions are imminent. Whole communities in some cases are being claimed by the sea and significant archaeological sites we never knew existed before are being wiped away before they can even be documented.