Climate Change News Tuesday June 30, 2026
Six women in Jamaica are taking part in the first phase of the Envisioning Resilience initiative in 2023, an innovative project enabling women to chronicle stories of climate adaptation and influence policy with the stories they are documenting. “Women are one of many vulnerable groups and one that often lacks agency when it comes to decisions of critical importance such as climate change,” explains Orville Grey, head of secretariat for the NAP Global Network, which, notes Climate Change News, is leading the project along with Lensational, a non-profit social enterprise. Read the full Story >>
Kraszna-Krausz Tuesday June 30, 2026
We recently featured the finalists for the 2026 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award, and now the winner has been been revealed: Sasha Kurmaz’s publication Red Horse. An ongoing project launched after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the book takes the form of a visual diary, composed of daily collages made from personal documentary photos, found images, notes, drawings, and things found on the street. The work conveys Kurmaz’s personal testimony about life in Ukraine, notes the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation. Read the full Story >>
DP Review Tuesday June 30, 2026
Adobe is acquiring Topaz Labs, the company behind widely used image and video enhancement tools including Topaz Photo, Topaz Video and Topaz Gigapixel, notes DP Review. Adobe says it plans to expand Topaz's AI enhancement models – which include upscaling, noise removal, sharpening, stabilization, frame interpolation and footage restoration – across its Firefly AI-generation software, Firefly Services, and Creative Cloud products. Adobe also highlighted the integration of Topaz's proprietary Neurostream technology, which enables large AI models to run locally on consumer hardware. Read the full Story >>
Vanity Fair Tuesday June 30, 2026
Africa’s third-largest country, haunted by endless cycles of violence and war and famine, has survived two previous civil wars, and there was a time when the world paid attention. But, notes Vanity Fair writer Janine Di Giovanni, that is not the case with Sudan’s current civil war. Di Giovanni and photographer Lynsey Addario traveled to the border of South Sudan and Sudan to report on the three-year-old conflict, interviewing civilians fleeing the violence—what the United Nations is calling the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, notes Addario. Read the full Story >>
