Reposted from our Extreme Weather Stories publication on Medium. Written for the anniversary of the 1953 floods, January 31st. On the lookout In the last days of January 1953, 70 years ago, my great grandfather Herbert Abbs, spent hours with his binoculars raised in his lookout tower at Aldeburgh. The lookout had to be a
You can also find this story on our Extreme Weather Stories publication. Hundreds of millions of people and animals have been suffering with unprecedented temperatures in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. In parts, such as New Delhi, temperatures have been above 43 degrees C / 110 degrees F for days. The city of Nawabshah reached 49.4 C or
We have been a host on a digital tour of Impermanent Edge, an artwork by Helen Goodwin. In keeping with the nature of the piece, the animated landscape image has now been replaced with the words above. The tour continues on Scarborough Museums’ website. Helen writes: This work is about impermanence, seen through the
This is a guest post as part of our Extreme Weather Stories series by Whabb Studio, a creative collective based in Wandsworth. Find them on Twitter @whabbstudio Deep Sea Rising is a 360 video that investigates what rising sea levels could entail for the future of Nine Elms topology and alludes to the ancient story