Hi, I'm Josh Haner and I'm a staff photographer at the New York Times covering climate change.
For years, we've sort of imagined this picture of a polar bear floating on a piece of ice.
Those have been the images associated with climate change.
My challenge is to find stories that show you how climate change is affecting our world right now.
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You've heard the news.
Here's what to make of it.
My name is Terry Tempest Williams.
I live in Castle Valley, Utah.
I'm a writer and I teach also at the Harvard Divinity School.
My husband and I live in a small desert hamlet in southeastern Utah.
And my relationship to the desert is physical, spiritual, emotional.
It is home ground and it's literally the ground beneath my feet.
I can't tell you how many times people have come to visit us and they say there's nothing here.
And then the longer they stay, the more they see.
So I think the desert commands attention and what appears to be nothing to the witnessing eye, it becomes everything.
And that everything is change.
In the Colorado Plateau, the Four Corners region, where we have a central point, where Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona share that boundary, we are in a megadrought.
There's something about the contrast, the paradox, that at a time of extreme drought, we are also experiencing extreme flooding.