An archive of 8,500+ royalty free climate change stock footage shots for sale
• VIDEO: Broadcast quality shots in LOG format (for true HDR / HLG) supplied as 4K video clip media.
• STILLS: Professional RAW photography and thermographic imagery
...visualising the energy transition, global warming, environmental issues and more...
Quick links to search (will open in new page):
• Newer photos and videos are on the Stocksy cooperative: Stills photography / Moving image
(use code A_OF_AU20 for discount of 20% on your first purchase)
• Most older videos are on Pond5
• Greenland Arctic winter videos from 2024 are for sale on SciencePhotoLibrary (UK)
Better still… buy them direct from the creator! Find as above then e-mail Adam with licensing enquiries for bulk, ungraded, or longer-duration LOG videos for HDR / 10-bit / HLG (Rec.2020, Rec.2100 etc.) – in 24fps / 25fps / 30fps, with audio (stereo sound); or for un-graded camera RAW photos.
Discounted rates are offered if you enquire from an educational, environmental or NGO emails.
Below: example of an HDR photo (high dynamic range AVIF (0.3MB) with gain-map fallback for SDR) of Greenland’s Inuit hunters facing Arctic sea ice too thin for their dogsledges and too thick for their boats. For the video from this shoot see here.
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Video samples below are optimised for widescreen (PC/Mac) viewing only and load when clicked:
Pacific Islands climate crisis: sea level rise of 7-10mm/yr threatens low-lying atoll islands. Loss & damage; climate adaptation & resilience. VIDEO / PHOTOS
Wrapping melting glaciers in Switzerland with thermal blanket insulation - solastalgia; also albedo enhancement as a geoengineering. VIDEO / PHOTOS
Sustainable farming, seaweed aquaculture — planting CO2 negative carbon sink crops in the Solomon Islands. VIDEO / PHOTOS
Scientific evidence and visualisation tools including thermographic infra-red (using a thermal imaging camera) and time-lapse shots. VIDEO / PHOTOS
CO₂ sequestration (carbon capture and storage - CCS) negative emissions technology including ClimeWorks, CarbFix, and ORCA, Iceland. (Video is a 10min demo-reel.) VIDEO / PHOTOS
Anthropogenic causes of global warming worldwide: dirty energy sources burning fossil-fuels in the carbon economy (thermal coal mining, coal power, smokestacks, etc.) VIDEO / PHOTOS
Battery storage for renewable energy, aerial shots of lithium batteries for power grid stability in Australia.
VIDEO / PHOTOS
Solar power : thermosolar and photovoltaic PV cell energy. Aesthetic shots of this landscape transforming renewable energy transition technology.VIDEO / PHOTOS
Wind energy renewables : visualising this invisible source of power. VIDEO / PHOTOS
Changing landscapes filmed in the European Arctic, Australia, Greenland, Iceland, Maldives, Solomons, Netherlands, Norway, Paris, Svalbard and Venice.
(also PHOTOS)
Climate emergency activism, climate strikes, extinction rebellion (XR), Greta Thunberg at the school strike for climate in New York, Fridays for Future, global public demonstrations and social protest movements
Sustainability and nature-based solutions, green architecture and design incl. vertical gardens; recycling / waste disposal, and eco-friendly alternative living transformations.
(also PHOTOS)
Sea level rise, disappearance of landscapes and low-lying islands, environmental damage, displacement of cities; underwater shots.
VIDEO / PHOTOS
CO₂ (carbon dioxide), methane and other greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as causes of atmospheric pollution & global heating; carbon emissions of planes, ships, transport & travel.
(also PHOTOS)
United Nations (UN) COP climate summits, agreements and IPCC conferences, including COP21 in Paris (precursor to COP26 Glasgow)
Climate change adaptation for coastal cities eg. sea walls & barriers in Venice (MOSE) & London; albedo enhancement (white roofs) in Greece...
VIDEO / PHOTOS
Abstract & aerial shots — long duration shots of fragile and vulnerable landscapes.
(also PHOTOS)
Agriculture and farming practises relating to land clearing, soil erosion, the carbon cycle etc.
(also PHOTOS)
Other environmental issues such as plastics, waste disposal and recycling (also PHOTOS)
Connecting cause and effect, visualising sources of the problem.
Man-made intervention in planetary climate systems via geoengineering or climate engineering projects VIDEO / PHOTOS
Life in northwest Greenland for animals and humans during the polar night and then spring sea-ice thaw and breakup. (also PHOTOS)
Artistic interventions such as urban ice installations or material from my own art & museum projects on the climate crisis and climate breakdown, including material in vertical video stock footage (9:16 portrait) format
Potential solutions: clean green energy sources, solar and wind renewables. (also PHOTOS)
Methane bubbles in frozen Arctic permafrost, part of the carbon cycle. (+ PHOTOS)
Drought, arid landscapes and desertification from Australia to the Middle East. (+ PHOTOS)
Indigenous peoples’ environmental & cultural knowledge as they face the climate crisis, living low-carbon lifestyles. (+ PHOTOS)
Climate mitigation strategies including nature-based solutions, Australian forestry, tree planting / reforestation, but also logging and land-clearing. (+ PHOTOS)
Avalanches, permafrost landslides and other global heating phenomena from Svalbard (Spitsbergen) and the abandoned coal mining city of Pyramiden, 1200km from the North Pole. (+ PHOTOS)
Hellisheidi & Svartsengi power stations — dramatic drone aerial shots of a geothermal energy power plant. VIDEOS / PHOTOS
Climate scientists, climate science, scientific research and measurement in environmental hotspots.
Svalbard Global Seed Vault as an example of ‘cathedral thinking’; timelapse suggesting multi-generational timescales. (+ PHOTOS)
Plant monocultures, biodiversity and ecocide in the Anthropocene epoch. VIDEOS / PHOTOS
Iconic scenes of the Anthropocene epoch and tiny planet panoramas. (+ PHOTOS)
Ice caves and ice formations deep inside retreating Arctic glaciers. VIDEOS / PHOTOS
Alternative public transport, green powered rail (TGV very fast train), cycling, etc. VIDEOS / PHOTOS
Dubai metro in the desert heat. VIDEO
2019 Venice flood disaster — underwater. Acqua alta (high tide flooding effects of rising sea levels) in Venice, 12 November 2019 as it was hit by its worst flood disaster in 60 years.
Man on Iceberg, Greenland.
Consequences such as flooding in Venice (flood disaster of 2019, extreme weather in Sydney, permafrost melt in Svalbard). Example film 1.
Example film 2: consequences of the climate crisis.
Melting ice, retreating glaciers, Arctic landscapes, majestic icebergs and changing ecosystems, many filmed as drone aerial shots.
Example film featuring shots for sale.
Example film featuring shots for sale.
Example film featuring shots for sale.
Sample film featuring shots from the stock archive.
...and many, many more stills and videos for sale...
Royalty-Free Stock Video at Pond5
You can search my stock video library by clicking here and optionally contact me directly for enquiries.
Stocksy - Sustainable Stock Footage
All stills & some videos are sold through Stocksy. Use discount code A_OF_AU20 for 20% off or contact me directly for series/RAW. Below is a small sample of my archive of still images. Alternatively, you can explore my climate change art works, exhibited in galleries & museums worldwide, here.
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