David Buckland is an artist and the director of Cape Farewell, the organisation he founded in 2001 to bring artists, writers and scientists to key ecological crisis points, to witness for themselves the impact of global warming so that their storytelling skills might raise awareness among the wider public.

From the initial focus on the Arctic, his lens has since shifted to the Marshall Islands in the Northwest Pacific, a place shaped by a particular confluence of human-made catastrophes. First came the legacy of the US’s 1950s nuclear testing programme, which obliterated three islands and rendered ...

 

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