Before searching for images, you will need to be familiar the key debates regarding ecological discourses. This will help you develop an effective list of keywords to use in your searches. To build that list, it's best to research the news. This page will introduce some sources for news about eco-criticism, ecological discourse, and climate change.

News Research

We have access to thousands of other newspapers online, mostly IN TEXT FORMAT ONLY, through the library catalog. Here is an EXCELLENT guide to doing news research that tells you how to get there: TODAY'S NEWS

News Photos

News Images are also available, but these are just for browsing; we do NOT have a subscription, and these agencies are trying to get you to buy the images (we do not encourage spending money this way!):

Critical Looking Exercise

Keep America Beautiful, “The Crying Indian”, first aired in 1971.

The image of “the crying Indian” (portrayed by Iron Eyes Cody, né Espera de Corti) circulated widely throughout the 1970s, appearing in the above commercial alongside billboards and print. For many, the figure became a symbol of burgeoning American environmentalism. Yet consider the implications of “the crying Indian” as well as the advertisement’s funder, Keep America Beautiful. How does this advertisement rely on and proliferate stereotypes of Indigenous relationships with the “natural world”? Moreover, Keep America Beautiful comprised leading packaging and beverage corporations. What might these corporations have to gain from advertisements like this? How can we critically consider its message of stopping individual consumers from littering?

Deeper Dives

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