New Images Coming in From Somalia Featuring Refugees Fleeing War and Famine

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From the frontiers of climate change comes Consequences by NOOR. Featuring the work of nine, internationally acclaimed photographers, this exhibition documents the devastating effects of climate change around the globe. These stunning photographs show not what might happen in the future but what is happening today.

The subjects include: a massive pine beetle kill in British Columbia, genocide in Darfur, the rising sea level in the Maldives, Nenet reindeer herders in Siberia, Inuit hunters in Greenland, a looming crisis in Kolkata, India, coal mining in Poland, oil sand extraction in Canada and the deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest by Brazilian cattle ranchers.

Consequences by NOOR premiers at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, December 7 through December 18, 2009.

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New Images Coming in From Somalia, Refugees Fleeing War and Famine

Posted by admin | Consequences by NOOR Project, Jan Grarup | Sunday 8 November 2009 12:46 am

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This woman is one of tens of thousands of refugees fleeing war and famine in Somalia. International authorities say that ongoing civil conflicts in Africa are exacerbated by scarcities caused by prolonged drought and climate change.