You don't have to see "An Inconvenient Truth" to know that there's a new kind of canary in the coal mine,in the form of Austria's desiccated glaciers or Costa Rica's enervated cloud forests.

At numerous places around the globe, the Earth is melting, drowning, drying up, or increasingly battered.

Since 2005, The Canary Project has dedicated itself to capturing large-scale photographic evidence of locations in the grip of such dramatic climate change.

In some cases, the landscape's physical grandeur belies its desperation. In other cases, such as Belize's coral reefs, the underwater world seems so clearly, and unnervingly, diminished, it looks almost dry.

The project doesn't restrict itself to nature's far fringes or deeply submerged realms, either. New Orleans and Venice, perhaps the most canary-like of all the world's great cities, figure prominently here.

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