Fragile Planet: documenting the impact of the climate crisis – in pictures.

Fragile Planet is a record of the dramatic changes that are shaping our planet. Containing more than 230 photographs, the book documents the effects of climate systems and forces of nature on our world alongside striking images that show their impact.

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At the peak of this duststorm, air particle concentration levels hit 15,400mg/m3 of air. To put this in context, normal days register about 20mg/m3 and bushfires can produce 500mg/m3. It was estimated that about 16m tons of dust were picked up from Australia’s deserts, and during the worst parts of the duststorm, nearly 75,000 tons of dust were being lost off the New South Wales coast every hour
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Photograph: Bartosz Luczak/Alamy

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A house sliding down a thawing slope of permafrost in Spitsbergen, Norway
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Photograph: Paolo Bolla/Alamy

Photograph: Frans Lemmens/Alamy

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Photograph: Stephen Foote/Alamy

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Photograph: Kristen Honig/USFS

Drought conditions in Guadalajara, Spain
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In Burkina Faso, the lowering of the water table due to drought necessitates the deepening of wells to collect enough water to sustain communities
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Photograph: Geoff Robinson

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The Polish government is devoting billions towards finding alternative, cleaner heat sources to traditional coal heating. The fossil fuel is not just a domestic issue – many power plants across the country rely on coal to generate energy. The image shows a coal-fired power plant in Turów, which generates about 8% of Poland’s electricity
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Green algae in Puy-de-Dôme, France
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8 October 2020
Τhe Guardian