Leila Goldstein

6 days ago | theworld.org | Leila Goldstein

A farmer harvests latex from a rubber tree on now-barren farmland in rural Cambodia, while sketchy figures bathe in the river in front of Phnom Penh’s Royal Palace where the Tonlé Sap meets the Mekong, now one of the world’s most plastic-polluted rivers. These are just a couple of the haunting scenes depicted by artist Sao Sreymao, whose multimedia works are on view at the SNA Arts Management gallery in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh.

3 weeks ago | theworld.org | Leila Goldstein

Near Moreton Bay Research Station’s back entrance is a line of parked research boats and a storage room with diving gear for expeditions. In the facility’s parking lot on North Stradbroke Island off Australia’s eastern coast near Brisbane, an opened freezer used to store research samples thaws in the sun after a recent storm cut power to the station. “It’s time to defrost everything and empty it out,” said Ben Mos, senior lecturer in aquaculture biology at the University of Queensland.

3 weeks ago | theworld.org | Leila Goldstein

Hannah Gallagher has a zoo of sorts in her backyard. She cares for koalas, magpie geese, a gang-gang cockatoo and a cassowary in enclosures lined with fig trees at her home about an hour outside Brisbane, Australia. But since a tropical cyclone hit the area, the veterinary nurse working with Wildlife Rescue Queensland has been focused on birds injured or exhausted by the storm.

1 month ago | theworld.org | Leila Goldstein

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred was the first storm of its kind to hit Brisbane, Australia, in more than 50 years. Earlier this month, it turned pristine beaches along the country’s Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast into steep cliffs that drop off yards away from the ocean waves. “Normally it’s beautiful on the Gold Coast. Perfect, so much sand, the water is crystal clear blue,” said Nathan Fife, Gold Coast operations manager for Surf Life Saving Queensland.

1 month ago | theworld.org | Leila Goldstein

On Monday, Louis Alves and his wife, Annabella Alves, were sweeping water out from the flooded garage of their house in Brisbane, Australia. The couple had been bracing for Cyclone Alfred, which was downgraded to a tropical low by the time it made landfall on the mainland Saturday evening. But the storm still dumped more than a foot of rain in some areas of Queensland and New South Wales, and knocked out power for more than 300,000 people, according to ABC News.