Climate journalism has no shortage of striking images: burning forests, melting glaciers, flooded streets, oil rigs at sunset and so on. These might be visual cliches but I’m very guilty of using them myself. We use these images because they’re engaging and effective, after all.
But what happens when an environmental threat has no obvious visuals? Fionagh Thomson, a visual anthropologist at Durham University, writes about the possibility of key Atlantic currents slowing down and
changing the weather across the world. As the action unfolds far below the waves, she writes, visual storytelling is much harder.
In Toy Story 5, released in UK cinemas
this week, Woody and co are worried about being replaced by tablets and other digital devices. “Even Rex the toy dinosaur is worried about going extinct again”, write Amy Hughes and Liane Beretta de Azevedo, childhood behaviour experts at Sheffield Hallam University. They look at how to find the right balance between toys and tablets.
Meanwhile, if you suffer from travel anxiety like Tom Sykes of the University of Portsmouth, renowned philosophers and
psychologists have some tips for you.