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‘My rural American hometown isn’t known for being tolerant towards nonconformity. We wanted to juxtapose the grimy backdrop with the glamour of drag’

CUMBERLAND — Allegany Museum officials have developed plans for the construction of an interactive creative arts center on the building’s lower level.

A photography and oral history project documenting the daily lives of drag queens in Cumberland, Maryland, a small northern Appalachian Rust Belt city.

Michael O. Snyder. Michael O. Snyder is a documentary photographer and filmmaker exploring the dynamic relationship between environmental and cultural change. He is a National Geographic contributor, Portrait of Humanity Award winner, a Climate Journalism fellow at the Bertha Foundation, a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, a recent speaker at the UN Climate Conference, and a resident artist at the McGuffey Art Center in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The All Living Things Environmental Film Festival, first of its kind in India, brought compelling environmental narratives to its audience with 44 films from 31 countries.

Michelle Gamage is a journalist and photographer based in Vancouver with an environmental beat. You can find her on Twitter @Michelle_Gamage. SHARES Half the Fraser River’s juvenile Chinook salmon stay in the estuary for an average of six weeks when transitioning from fresh to salt water, but that habitat is fast shrinking. Photo by Michael O. Snyder, courtesy of Raincoast Conservation Foundation. The southern coastline of mainland British Columbia is a world of m...

This is a transcript of episode 5 of The Conversation Weekly podcast, How climate change if flooding the Arctic Ocean with light. In this episode, two experts explain how melting ice in the far north is bringing more light to the Arctic Ocean and what this means for the species that live there. And we hear from a team of archaeologists on their new research in Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge that found evidence of just how adaptable early humans were to the changing environment. NOTE: Transcripts ma...

The Skinny Into the Dark takes us into the Polar Night American filmmaker and photographer Michael O Snyder plunges us into the Polar Night with his latest documentary Into the Dark, which follows a team of scientists studying the Arctics hardiest marine life Article by Jamie Dunn | 11 Feb 2021 It’s February and you’re most likely reading this in Scotland, therefore you probably know a thing or two about the dark. Spare a thought, then, for the inhabitants of Tromsø, Norway, wh...

Climate for Change Into The Dark premieres at Glasgow Science Centre’s first digital science festival and features researchers from the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) and number of other scientific groups on board the R/V Helmer Ever wonder what scientists do in the dark? Then dont miss Glasgow Science Centres UK premiere of a new documentary that explores how researchers monitor climate change in the bleak polar seas – and how it is affecting marine life. By Colin Cardwell...

Climate change is flooding the Arctic with light – and new species In partnership with Saturday, December 12th 2020, 6:20 pm - Increased human activity will have a major impact in the Arctics various species in the coming decades. At just over 14 million square kilometres, the Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world’s oceans. It is also the coldest. An expansive raft of sea ice floats near its centre, expanding in the long, cold, dark winter, and contracting in the summer...