Into the ice: humans get closer to nature – in pictures.
From log trails to lava houses, from mud baths to melting glaciers, US photographer Lucas Foglia explores our relationship with the natural world in his new book Human Nature.
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From log trails to lava houses, from mud baths to melting glaciers, US photographer Lucas Foglia explores our relationship with the natural world. In his new book Human Nature, he has captured off-grid families, climate scientists at work, and a hotel over-run with greenery
Tuesday 10 October 2017 02.00 EDT
Esme swims in a balcony pool at the Parkroyal on Pickering in Singapore. The hotel contains more than 15,000 square metres of greenery, amounting to twice its land area. Lucas Foglia’s Human Nature is at Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, until 21 October. Human Nature by Lucas Foglia is published by Nazraeli Press. All photography by Lucas Foglia
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Esme swims in a balcony pool at the Parkroyal on Pickering in Singapore. The hotel contains over 15,000 square meters of greenery, amounting to twice its land area.
Kurt guards logs, for export to China, on the Essequibo River in Guyana. Situated on South America’s North Atlantic coast, Guyana has one of the largest unspoiled rainforests in the world, parts of which are almost inaccessible to humans. In 2009, Norway offered $250m for protecting and maintaining the trees. At the same time, China is offering to buy any trees that are cut
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Kurt guards logs, for export to China, on the Essequibo River in Guyana. Guyana, a country on South America’s North Atlantic coast, has one of the largest unspoiled rainforests in the world, some parts of which are almost inaccessible by humans. In 2009, Norway offered $250 million for protecting and maintaining the trees. At the same time, China is offering to buy any trees that are cut.
Kenzie hangs from her safety rope inside a melting glacier. She is with the Juneau Icefield Research Programme, in which students assist scientists in climate research
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12 LucasFoglia HumanNature Kenzie inside a Melting Glacier
Matt builds an off-grid house, after a lava flow covered his land in Hawaii
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Matt builds an off grid house, after a lava flow covered his land in Hawai‘i. Construction after a Lava Flow
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Icebergs float away from the Gilkey Glacier in Alaska
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Icebergs float away from the Gilkey Glacier in Alaska.
Rachel immerses herself in the communal mud pit at the Twin Oaks Communities Conference in Louisa, Virginia. People from around the world come to the conference to talk about eco-villages, cooperative housing, and how to live closer to nature
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Rachel immerses herself in the communal mud pit at the Twin Oaks Communities Conference in Louisa, Virginia. People from around the world come to the conference to talk about eco-villages, cooperative housing, and how to live closer to nature.
New crop varieties are grown and tested in the Geneva Greenhouses at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. The USDA’s national and regional seed banks store hundreds of thousands of plant varieties, and crop scientists race to create a climate-change-resilient agriculture. As droughts, extreme rainstorms, and other erratic weather patterns intensify, farmers need crops that can cope with such stresses
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New crop varieties are grown and tested in the Geneva Greenhouses at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station. The USDA’s national and regional seed banks store hundreds of thousands of plant varieties, and crop scientists race to create a climate-change-resilient agriculture. As droughts, extreme rainstorms, and other erratic weather patterns intensify, farmers need crops that can cope with such stresses.
A beach is restored after El Niño waves in Pacifica, California. With coastlines eroding close to houses, many coastal towns pay machine operators to rebuild beaches, even as waves wash the sand away
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A beach is restored after El Niño Waves in Pacifica, California. With coastlines eroding close to houses, many coastal towns pay machine operators to rebuild beaches, even as waves wash the sand away.
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Evan sleeps at Camp 18, overlooking the Vaughan Lewis Icefall. One of the greatest nonpolar concentrations of glaciers in the world, the Juneau Icefield spans 90 miles of southeast Alaska
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Evan sleeps at Camp 18, overlooking the Vaughan Lewis Icefall. One of the greatest nonpolar concentrations of glaciers in the world, the Juneau Icefield spans 90 miles of southeast Alaska.
Palm trees once marked the entrance to town. Now they are without water, during the prolonged drought in California
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Palm trees once marked the entrance to town. Now they are without water, during the prolonged drought in California.
Kate waits for a storm to pass. Researchers at the University of Utah, working under Dr David Strayer, are conducting studies measuring cognition in nature. The EEG cap and facial electrodes record brain activity as participants are exposed to different natural environments
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Kate waits for a storm to pass. Researchers at the University of Utah, working under Dr. David Strayer, are conducting studies measuring cognition in nature. The EEG cap and facial electrodes record brain activity as participants are exposed to different natural environments.
Honey bees trail water across a rooftop after rain in Portland, Oregon
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Honey bees trail water across a rooftop after rain in Portland, Oregon.
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Trees stand, marked for cutting by the National Park Service, in a forest burned by the Rim Fire that spread into Yosemite National Park the year before. The Rim Fire of 2013 was the third largest wildfire in California’s history and the largest wildfire on record in the Sierra Nevada mountain range
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Trees stand, marked for cutting by the National Park Service, in a forest burned by the the Rim Fire that spread into Yosemite National Park the year before. The Rim Fire of 2013 was the third largest wildfire in California’s history and the largest wildfire on record in the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
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