Climate change

Olafur Eliasson's latest climate-themed work receives a blessing from the Pope

The Danish-Icelandic artist, who also launched a permanent public art piece in the UK this week, took a block of ice from Greenland to Rome

How nature is helping a rural French arts centre to reduce its carbon footprint

The Centre International d’Art et du Paysage—Île de Vassivière is drawing on both its natural and man-made surroundings for inspiration

Frieze to launch climate change fundraising initiative at its London fairs

Participating galleries have signed up to pledge 10% of the sale price of selected works to fund the Gallery Climate Coalition

The ancient city of Carthage is under attack again—and this time the enemy is climate change

Environmental damage is increasingly visible at the ruins of the former trading hub, located in modern-day Tunisia

Fashion vintage: how two historic Bordeaux vineyards have been restored to former glory under Chanel's ownership

The luxury, fashion and fragrance house has given Nicolas Audebert and his winemaking team the time and freedom to bring back to their best two grand old wines: Château Rauzan-Ségla and Château Canon

Climate change threatens Indigenous ceramic tradition in Brazil

Local Waurá activists have taken the Brazilian government to task for complacency towards global warming as their ancestral pottery practice becomes harder to maintain

Olafur Eliasson’s next project raises alarm over the decline of Utah’s Great Salt Lake

An important part of local and global ecosystems, the lake is facing significant drought due to diversion and climate change

Artist Maya Lin poses probing questions around New York City during Climate Week

Lin’s project, along with other timely shows and programmes around the city, uses art to address the climate crisis

New draft guidance for UK museums calls for ‘transition away’ from fossil fuels sponsorship

The draft “Code of Ethics” was published by the Museums Association earlier this week

‘Exceptional importance’: drought reveals ancient tombs at Iraq’s Mosul Dam

The 2,300-year-old tombs were unearthed following a significant decline in water levels

Art marketfeature

Buyer’s choice: how collectors factor into the art world’s quest for environmental sustainability

With the agency to make decisions on emissions-heavy activities, collectors play a crucial role in the industry

It's hard for green-themed art shows to garner credibility—the Helsinki Biennial deserves more than most

Having recently opened its third edition, Helsinki Biennial marks what is undoubtedly a new departure in eco-biennales, writes Louisa Buck

London urban oasis hosts artist’s multimedia investigation into plants’ resilience in the face of climate crisis

Vivienne Schadinsky, artist-in-residence at OmVed Gardens, in north London has used the two-acre plot as a “living laboratory” to make ink paintings, films, sculptures and prints devoted to beans and their ecology

Remembering Sebastião Salgado, world builder, photographer of collective humanity and prophet of possibility

The Brazilian artist captured whole societies in his teeming, panoramic images, and used multimedia storytelling as environmental activism

At Baltimore Museum of Art, a new exhibition asks us to consider the connections between race, colonialism and the climate crisis

‘Black Earth Rising’ is a reminder that the climate catastrophe is often felt most keenly by the populations who bare least responsibility for it

Frankenthaler Foundation awards grants totalling $3.4m for new climate initiatives

In addition to revealing the 74 recipients of new Frankenthaler Climate Initiative grants, the foundation announced it will extend the initiative another five years

Comment | Why it’s wrong to shame those protesting against fossil fuel funding

Protestors are taking high personal risks with the aim of affecting policy and corporate responsibility to make clear the scale of the looming climate catastrophe

Amid protests over his extravagant Venetian wedding, Jeff Bezos donates €3m to organisations involved in protecting the city and its ecosystem

It is yet to be confirmed how the three recipient institutions will collaborate on a subject of great importance to Venice and the world

Climate protester splashes pink paint on Picasso work at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

The activist from Last Generation Canada said “more resources have been put in place to secure and protect this artwork than to protect living, breathing people”

Climate change is destroying Maine’s historic lighthouses

These unique monuments to a coastal way of life, some of them dating to the US’s colonial period, appear on the 2025 World Monuments Watch list alongside historic sites in countries experiencing war and drought

Comment | Most forms of environmental protest are no longer possible—that's where the power of images comes in

David Attenborough’s new documentary “Ocean” and the activist group Ocean Rebellion are harnessing imagery in the fight against marine destruction

Sebastião Salgado, photographer of the planet’s margins, dies at 81

The Brazilian documentarian was internationally known for his panoramic photographs of humanity surviving on the edge and for his work as a campaigning environmentalist

A rebuke to Modernism: the Venice Architecture Biennale imagines new ways of building to cope with climate change

Following an open call, this year's chaotic but entertaining Biennale features artists, engineers and climate scientists alongside the architects

From Africa to the Arctic Circle, this public artwork is stampeding into cities with a cry for climate action

‘The Herds’ is an expanding throng of life-sized moveable animal sculptures—and it succeeds where many ostensibly green projects fail

Pope Leo XIVanalysis

Robert Francis Prevost has been elected Pope Leo XIV—why does this matter to the worlds of art and heritage?

The Chicago-born pontiff—the new spiritual leader of 1.3 billion Catholics and the proprietor in trust of the great art and architecture treasures of the Vatican—has publicly supported his predecessor Pope Francis's lead on climate change

How can art fairs become greener?

Tight timelines for set-up, shipping and deinstallation, plus often extensive travel for staff and clients, make the sector stubbornly unsustainable

Comment | Art world attitudes towards the climate emergency are changing, but the time to secure a viable future is now

After three years spent critiquing the art world's response to the climate crisis for this column, Louisa Buck takes stock of what's been achieved—and what remains to be done

Technologyfeature

Can graphic imagination wake audiences up to the climate emergency? This multimedia artist believes so

Berlin-based Michael Najjar has been working with scientists in Greenland to tell stories with images designed to replace familiar memes of environmental journalism

‘We’re looking at the climate crisis because it’s here and now and affecting us daily’: inside Art Jameel’s push for sustainability and industry-wide change

The independent organisation is centring climate-conscious decisions across its operations and conducting research to advocate for looser conservation standards

Climate activist found guilty of ‘defacing’ Degas sculpture at US National Gallery of Art

A Trump executive order aimed at cracking down on vandalism in Washington, DC has turned up the heat on climate protests