Project Pressure; The Quest to Save the World's Vanishing Glaciers
| June 15th, 2013 | |
| topics: | Nature |
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| by: | Sara Jabril |
| located in: | Greenland, Russia, USA |
| tags: | blue lake, climate-change, glaciers, global-warming, klaus thymann, maori, project pressure |
Needless to say that it is time to wake up and act.
Since 2008, the Project Pressure focuses on leaving a legacy of the world as we know it for generations to come. How? By capturing geo-tagged photographs at glaciers around the world. The aim is to document the glaciers as part of a visual archive of how planet earth once was. The really amazing thing about the collaborative Project Pressure is its openness. The non-profit project is working on what will be the world's first crowdsourced glacier atlas and an open source digital platform.
Beyond accessing a collection of incredible, free-to-use images, scientists, researchers, educators and local communities will be able to contribute to the digital platform by uploading new or archival images – generating a unique open source resource of comparative photographs (Project Pressure 20013).
Fairplanet's favorite: Check out Project Pressure Director Klaus Thymann's incredible photos of the world's clearest lake. Nature (and photography) at its best! Blue Lake, in New Zealand's South Island, is located in a conservation area, and is sacred to the local Maori tribe, who had to be consulted prior to the diving/photography project. Wondering how clear exactly this lake is? Under water visibility of up to 76 metres has been scientifically verified.
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