Climate change, by the National Trust
A new exhibition of photographs has revealed how Britain is being ravaged by the effects of climate change.
Entitled Exposed: Climate Change In Britain’s Backyard, it shows eroding coastlines, crumbling mountains and the fierce storms suffered as a result of a rapidly changing climate.
The exhibition – by 10 of the UK’s top photographers and organised by the National Trust – aims to show how climate change is affecting Britain.
The images, of National Trust properties, countryside and coastline, are accompanied by accounts of the changes from guardians of the sites involved.
Among the most striking images are Snowdonia. In 1996 the mountains were covered in snow. Ten years later they are bare.
A dramatic seascape from Newlyn in Cornwall shows the harbour under siege from gales and high tide, one of many coastal resorts facing rising seas and severe storms.
An aerial photograph of an orchard in Lyveden New Bield in Northants reveals the other face of climate change – summer drought and mild winters.
Trust property manager Mark Bradshaw said: “Fruit yields are reducing. At our young orchard in Lyveden, the clay soil is cracked and dry during summer. In winter, mild weather encourages early blooms which are killed off by frost.’
Warmer summers have also taken their toll on rivers, as a shot of the Tweed shows it covered in a vast carpet of green
algae.
●The exhibition, now in London, will tour the country. Details on www.nationaltrust.org.uk/exposed.