The Climate Change Gallery

Athabasca Run Off

Part of the colossal Columbia Icefield that bestrides the continental divide in Banff and Jasper national parks, the Athabasca Glacier is the most visited in North America. This was shot in July, 2019 during a trip through the Canadian Rockies and demonstrates how much the glacier is receding currently. It is expected to be gone by the end of this century.

Frozen Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls is actually made up of three separate waterfalls: the American Falls, the Bridal Veil Falls (named for its resemblance to a bride's veil) and the largest, the Horseshoe Falls. The 3 waterfalls combine to produce the highest flow rate of any waterfall on earth. The largest vertical drop is over 165 feet (50 metres). The Niagara Falls were created by glacier activity around 10,000 years ago.

Tracey Arm Glacier -Calving

While on a cruise through the channel to Tracy Arm Glacier, Alaska, luck would have it that just as we arrived, we could first hear the loud cracking sound of the crevices being created and then ice chunks breaking off to the point where the huge chunk in the front of the picture came crashing down and then the rest of the glacier followed. That started a huge tidal wave. The birds were frantically flying away to avoid disaster themselves. It was an amazing sight to behold. I hope you enjoy this picture of one of the world’s most famous places as much as I did photographing it. (I was hanging out of the Captain’s cabin to shoot this to avoid the crowd below.

West Thumb Geyser-Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

The West Thumb Geyser Basin, currently known as "Potts Basin", is the largest geyser basin on the shores of Yellowstone Lake. Sulphurous gases are emitted from this pond and visitors are warned not to visit it’s shores for their own safety.

Costa Rica Jungle Reflections

Costa Rican biologists at Veragua Rainforest are using climate change studies on frogs to help Costa Rica reduce global warming and prevent catastrophic climate change. ... While the world's nations race to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, studies show that tropical forests could be the tipping point in global warming.

Storm Over Turtle Beach

Tortuguero is a village in Limón Province, on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast. Part of Tortuguero National Park, it’s on a rainforest-covered sandbar whose beaches are a major nesting site for green turtles. The Sea Turtle Conservancy runs a research station and visitor center, with turtle-related exhibits. The park’s freshwater canals, wetlands and forests shelter wildlife like jaguars, tapirs and manatees. Please leave no trace when visiting – no plastic bottles, etc.

Arenal Jungle View

Arenal Volcano and surrounding Rainforest -Embracing an estimated 30% of the national territory, Costa Rica has one of the largest rainforest formations in the world. As a biodiversity hotspot, the country offers a spectacular variety of flora and fauna living in its dense forest formations. Rainforest research in Costa Rica has facilitated the conservation efforts to a great extent. The programs and expeditions offered by various research institutes aim at conducting a comprehensive research in the country and creating awareness in the local as well as the international community.

Costa Rica Mangroves

Mangroves in Costa Rica – By protecting forests and mangroves instead of destroying them, Costa Rica is at the forefront of the global effort to slow climate change. Costa Rica's trees pull the main greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, out of the air and lock the carbon away in their wood and in the soil beneath them.

Moraine Lake, Banff National Park, Alberta

One of the purest and most beautiful lakes in the world is a glacially fed lake, which features turquoise water and a mountainous surrounding, and is situated in the Valley of the Ten Peaks, at an elevation of 6,683 feet.

Peyto Lake-Banff National Park, Alberta

Named for Bill Peyto, a packer and guide of early 1900's, the Lake is located at an elevation of ~1800 meters in the Canadian Rockies. The amazing blue-green colour of this lake is due to the light reflecting properties of the glacial flour that flows into the lake from the Peyto glacier. The colour varies depending on the season and even with the time of day.

Athabasca Glacier: Jasper National Park, Alberta

The Athabasca Glacier is one of the six principal ' toes’ of the Columbia Icefield, located in the Canadian Rockies. The glacier is currently losing depth at a rate of about 5 metres (16 ft) per year and may disappear in this generation. My tour group and I were headed back down the glacier to home in this shot.

Athabasca Falls, Jasper National Park, Alberta

Athabasca Falls is not very high (80 ft) by Canadian Rockies standards, but the size of the river it flows from makes it one of the most powerful falls to be found in the mountain national parks. Pouring over a layer of hard quartzite, the falls have cut into the softer limestone beneath, carving intricate features, including potholes and a short canyon. Flowing from the glaciers of the Columbia Icefield, the Athabasca River is the largest river system in Jasper.

Spirit Island in Maligne Lake, Jasper N.P., Alberta

The island is a spiritual place for the Stoney Nakoda First Nation, who believe mountains are physical representations of their ancestors. The fact that Spirit Island is surrounded on three sides by the same mountain range is very rare and makes it particularly significant to the Stoney. It is also one of the world's largest glacier fed lakes.

Rearguard Falls, British Columbia

Rearguard Falls is located in Rearguard Falls Provincial Park on the Fraser River in British Columbia. The falls are located 115 km (71 mi) downstream from the river's source at Fraser Pass. This is the farthest point that salmon migrate up the Fraser River to spawn, about 1,260 km (783 mi) from the ocean.