Earth's atmosphere is steadily warming due to greenhouse gas emissions. While experts discuss the possible consequences and politicians are apparently powerless to do anything about it, untold numbers of people are already struggling with the devastating impact of a climate gone haywire.

Galvanized by the continued failure of world governments to act on the deterioration of our planet Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer decided to make a tangible record of ecological collapse--of photographs to which one could point and say, "look: this is happening there."
Their crusade began in February 2009, in southeastern Australia, during the hottest week in the country's recorded history (118 degrees), where the couple documented how farmers have seen their flocks and pastures die off amid increasing drought, brush fires and dust storms. In 2010 Braschler and Fischer hauled their large-format cameras from drought-ridden Timbuktu to Siberia where the permafrost is thawing, from Bangladesh to Lake Chad, photographing the inhabitants of forests, mountains, deserts and valleys, all of whom are experiencing the real effects of global warming and environmental collapse.

Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer traveled to sixteen countries around the world, taking photographs of and conducting interviews with people whose existence is threatened by the consequences of climate change.