“Jim and I watched it and sort of gave each other a high five,” Mr. Haner said. The footage from the Broch of Borwick leads an article by Mr. Dwyer and Mr. Haner about how climate change is threatening Orkney’s pieces of history and about the people working to save them. The story is one in a series on the threat climate change poses to some of the world’s most precious cultural sites. “We wanted to bring our readers close to places where the cultural identity is being permanently erased by climate change,” said Hannah Fairfield, The Times’s climate editor, who is overseeing the series. His images also accompanied the reporter Anne Barnard’s words showing how a warming world is shrinking the territory where Lebanon’s cedars can survive.

Source: New York Times September 30, 2018 23:48 UTC