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Living on the frontline of global heating

People around the world describe how the climate crisis has disrupted their lives   

  • Burned to the Ground: the Canadian village incinerated by record temperatures

  • A still from the documentary, Burned to the Ground, set in Lytton, Canada

    Burned to the Ground: the Canadian village incinerated by record temperatures

  • Beekeeper Antonis Vakos checks a beehive next to other destroyed beehives in Greece.

    ‘The whole ecosystem was wiped’: living on the frontline of global heating

    From extreme weather obliterating homes to rising sea levels ruining crops, climate breakdown is a terrifying daily reality for many
  • Manut Boonpayong, a farmer from Samut Songkhram, stands in his pomelo grove in the Bang Khonthi District of Samut Songkhram, Thailand on October 14, 2021. Manut Boonpayong has continues to face climate change problems while farming this year, including lack of fresh water due to droughts and the contamination of fresh water with salt water due to flooding by the coast. Photo by Lauren DeCicca

    ‘Our children may not want to be farmers’: living on the frontline of global heating

    From extreme weather obliterating homes to rising sea levels ruining crops, climate breakdown is a terrifying daily reality for many
  • Charlie Hobbs on a glacier

    ‘See these glaciers, before they melt’: living on the frontline of global heating

    From extreme weather obliterating homes to rising sea levels ruining crops, climate breakdown is a terrifying daily reality for many
  • Daharu Isah on his farm in Gusau, Nigeria

    ‘The weather keeps playing tricks’: living on the frontline of global heating

    From extreme weather obliterating homes to rising sea levels ruining crops, climate breakdown is a terrifying daily reality for many
  • Claudelice dos Santos by ‘The Majestade’ - a centuries-old tree covered in spiders’ webs and greenery.

    ‘Environmental defenders are being killed’: living on the frontline of global heating

    From extreme weather obliterating homes to rising sea levels ruining crops, climate breakdown is a terrifying daily reality for many
  • Rasmus Poulsen, founder of Tasiilaq Tours in remote eastern Greenland

    ‘The snow disappeared’: living on the frontline of global heating

    From extreme weather obliterating homes to rising sea levels ruining crops, climate breakdown is a terrifying daily reality for many
  • Amie Ferrier, a resident of the Sierra Nevada foothills in California, US

    ‘Sacred places burn’: living on the frontline of global heating

    From extreme weather obliterating homes to rising sea levels ruining crops, climate breakdown is a terrifying daily reality for many
  • Gennadiy Shukin selfie with deer

    ‘Summers are becoming unbearable’: living on the frontline of global heating

    From extreme weather obliterating homes to rising sea levels ruining crops, climate breakdown is a terrifying daily reality for many
  • Vanessa Nieuwenhuizen after arriving in Australia.

    ‘I wouldn’t wish it upon any parent’: living on the frontline of global heating

    From extreme weather obliterating homes to rising sea levels ruining crops, climate breakdown is a terrifying daily reality for many
  • Sunil Kandar, a resident of Ghoramara island.

    ‘The island has been shrinking’: living on the frontline of global heating

    From extreme weather obliterating homes to rising sea levels ruining crops, climate breakdown is a terrifying daily reality for many
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