comics & infographics Archives

Consumerism/Lifestyle

The story of a rodent’s unrelenting quest for fulfilment, by Steve Cutts

5th December 2017

CLIMATE CRISIS

Permafrost – the Arctic’s sleeping giant: What is it, and why does it matter?

12th August 2017

What is permafrost? What happens when permafrost thaws? This animation, based on research by scientists at the Alfred Wegener Institute, answers these questions. Understanding this problem, and its connection to global climate change, is of vital importance at a time when the thawing Arctic tundra is creating massive craters and bringing back diseases like anthrax….

CLIMATE CRISIS

Spotlight: Here’s how India has warmed from 1901 till 2017

12th June 2017

Here are the key findings from Centre for Science and Environment’s study of how India has warmed over the years, also plotted in animation. The analysis looks at temperature trends in the country –both annual and seasonal– from 1901 till recent years. It finds that the country has been getting warmer continuously, consistently and rapidly….

Rohan Chakravarty

Conserve/Resist

Spotlight: Some ‘wild’ women of India

7th March 2017

Rohan Chakravarty, creator of a popular comic column, writes: We know of Jane Goodall, Rachel Carson and Dian Fossey. But do you know about these heroes? This Women’s Day (8th March), Green Humour celebrates some ‘wild’ women of India- J.Vijaya, Prerna Bindra, Aparajita Datta, Divya Mudappa, Vidya Athreya, Kiran Pathija, Nandini Velho and Tiasa Adhya (click…

Representative pic

http://xkcd.com/

CLIMATE CRISIS

Global warming is now off the charts, this stunning comic shows

18th September 2016

Eric Holthaus writes: The latest comic from xkcd, the internet’s most famous science-focused webcomic, zips through 22,000 years of Earth’s climate history, juxtaposed with key moments in the history of civilization. Seeing it, you’ll probably come to an inescapable conclusion: Nothing like this has ever happened, and it’s about to get a whole lot worse….

CLIMATE CRISIS

Richard Heinberg: The boiling pot: A graphic story

1st June 2016

This year is the hottest in history: every single month in 2016 so far has set a heat record. Slow, linear change is giving way to non-linear lurches. Extend the present temperature trend for another few months and we may go beyond the threshold of 1.5 degrees. How long until we get to two degrees? Three?…

CLIMATE CRISIS

Hitler Denial: A comic on global climate action

25th May 2016

Today, global action to stop climate change is inconceivable. Yet, in 1938, global action to stop Nazi Germany was also inconceivable. The world was in Hitler denial. Australian cartoonist Stuart McMillen, whose acclaimed long-form comics are inspired by science, ecology, sustainability and economics, takes on the most daunting challenge of our times – climate change….

Bookshelf

Graphic novel: The beginning of Delhi’s water wars

20th February 2016

Everyone, deep in their hearts, is “waiting for the end of the world to come,” said Murakami. If not the end, then at least a good showdown’s definitely expected. Sarnath Banerjee‘s latest graphic novel envisions a similar war in the near future. Fittingly, the war’s going to be fought over something as elemental as water….

By Swedish political cartoonist Riber Hansson

CLIMATE CRISIS

Cartoonists’ take on the climate haggling in Paris

8th December 2015

Editorial cartoonists from around the world have been quick to capture the fault lines in the negotiations ‒ world leaders arriving in Paris in their gas-guzzling jets and SUVs, rich countries lecturing poor countries on climate action, the inability for political leaders to strike a climate consensus up till now. Here are the best picks….

Nature.com

CLIMATE CRISIS

Comic: The 25-year quest for a climate treaty

6th December 2015

The fragile framework A Nature comic examines the 25-year quest for a climate treaty. Can nations unite to save Earth’s climate? Richard Monastersky & Nick Sousanis, Nature Click on image to view comic MORE IN COMICS: Syria’s Climate-Fueled Conflict, In One Stunning Comic Strip Peak Oil: A Graphic Story

CLIMATE CRISIS

Syria’s Climate-Fueled Conflict, In One Stunning Comic Strip

15th September 2015

How climate change helped spark a bloody civil war By Audrey Quinn and Jackie Roche, Mother Jones This comic was produced by Years of Living Dangerously and Symbolia Magazine. You can read more of their comics exploring the impacts of climate change here.

Education/Awareness

Peak Oil: A Graphic Story

19th May 2015

Australian artist Stuart McMillan has spent over 700 hours creating this amazing cartoon of the life and work of M.King Hubbert. McMillan writes on his blog about what he aimed to do with this cartoon: I knew that I couldn’t produce the definitive account of Peak Oil, through the medium ofcomics. I could simply never…