This is an emergency
Explore images that show the ways in which our precious planet is threatened by climate change and the impact of this on our historic environment.
Our climate has changed.
Faced with increasingly erratic and extreme weather, the places we know and love are threatened by climate change.
However, not all environments can weather the storm, and large swathes of Scotland will be at risk in the coming decades.
Alongside these places are flooded homes, villages in sudden isolation after landslides, and even the loss our very culture and traditions.
This is an emergency, but through careful monitoring, research and investigation, we can better understand how we can tackle climate change, take action and make a difference.
Before you enter the competition, why not browse the images below or explore submitted entries in the other climate heritage themes.
Photography
See all![Far off shot of snow covered trees with snowy hills further off in the distance](/media/8024/dsc00571.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357864430000&rotate=0)
![A pile of rubbish within the steep walls of a quarry](/media/7799/000-000-569-986-r-scottish-life-archive-licensor-wwwscranacuk.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357812400000&rotate=0)
![A stormy high tide at the garden gate, Colintraive, early 2000s](/media/7995/71cb2045-fa3d-4f29-aa3e-9c19bfd18c4d.jpeg?height=400&rnd=133552357770200000&rotate=0)
![Snow cannon on Cairngorm ski slopes to replace the receeding natural snow.](/media/8007/p1040674.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357765130000&rotate=0)
![Two abandoned wooden fishing boats resting on the beach and slowly rotting away.](/media/8060/fish0102.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357740770000&rotate=0)
![A bird's eye view of a complicated motorway junction overlapping with itself.](/media/7791/m8-motorway-townhead-interchange-glasgow-dp015611.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357501200000&rotate=0)
![A concrete block sitting high above the sand, with the base and supporting pillars exposed](/media/7793/newburgh-sands-pillbox-aberdeenshire-sc857886.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357485200000&rotate=0)
![a small bird on the water passing under a plume of steam that resembles and atomic mushroom](/media/8056/img_5344.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357407930000&rotate=0)
![A large red sign reading "Danger. Erosion and falling rocks"](/media/7796/sign-st-andrews-castle.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357366200000&rotate=0)
![A few trees left of the extensive woodlands that once covered Ardgour](/media/8065/2016-hanging-on-amongst-the-carnage-of-the-trees-so-can-there-be-hope.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357324500000&rotate=0)
![A plastic mat covered in wet sand, sea weed and shells](/media/7795/plastic-pollution-south-queensferry-beach.jpg?rxy=0.5061728395061729,0.5094339622641509&height=400&rnd=133552357320630000&rotate=0)
![Indented, sandy coastline on the Western Isles](/media/8010/dsc03866.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357312700000&rotate=0)
![Ptarmigan in the Cairngorms - perfectly adapted to our climate](/media/8009/p1050775.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357301030000&rotate=0)
![Colours in a muddy puddle on local walk but also looks like an amazing star, galaxy scene.](/media/8036/reality-illusions.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357286070000&rotate=0)
![Lowered profile of a Fulmar bird making 'eye' contact & perched on narrow cliff fissure, with it's back exposed to the biting North Sea elements.](/media/8093/img_4745final.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357272970000&rotate=0)
Mobile photography
See all![The foreground trees await the advancing burning mist.](/media/8092/img_20211028_175442.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357879170000&rotate=0)
![At New Lanark at the falls where it rained all day resulting in this wonderful fast fast flow](/media/8011/fa652a85-ddae-4e1f-b435-ac5c21432578.jpeg?height=400&rnd=133552357640970000&rotate=90)
![Reflections of steam from cooling towers](/media/8052/51bf1d70-edbc-46f0-8b74-1106070f94b9.png?height=400&rnd=133552357626700000&rotate=0)
![Entrance to Dunure harbour with severe erosion](/media/8039/dunure-harbour.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357541230000&rotate=0)
![A landscape shot of the sea and a smokey, industrial chimneys on the other side of the water](/media/8089/climate-change-hes.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357515630000&rotate=0)
![Plastic fish shaped container lays in the water portraying the plastic in our oceans](/media/8081/cc261883-aa70-4280-aace-e16c1d41c61d.jpeg?height=400&rnd=133552357340700000&rotate=0)
![A lane is flooded with sewage water as it seeps out the burn covering the path.](/media/8082/84902eb2-ab94-471c-b57a-3176b8aac6f0.jpeg?height=400&rnd=133552357293200000&rotate=0)
![Huge waves crashing against the sea wall below Skara Brae.](/media/8072/img_20211107_100907_954.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357290300000&rotate=0)
![This image taken in Clydebank, shows how plastic waste has impacted the environment.](/media/8068/screenshot_2021-11-25-20-03-43-51_99c04817c0de5652397fc8b56c3b3817.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357185900000&rotate=0)
![A thoroughly rusted trolley, on it's side, on a stone beach](/media/7965/20211111_005645.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357035000000&rotate=0)
![Reroofing badly decayed roof facing the Solway Firth](/media/8040/st-josephs-creetown.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552356992530000&rotate=90)
![Severe flooding in the Stirlingshire town of Callander has turned this kid’s play park into a water park.](/media/8070/bf342b28-f600-40f1-aa6f-1242f5c64db2.jpeg?height=400&rnd=133552356960400000&rotate=0)
![repair after the storm](/media/8097/the-repair-after-the-storm.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552356957600000&rotate=0)
![The image shows conservation repair of rowing boathouse timber frame on Glasgow Green.](/media/8045/e1b9f2e1a29276c628e81ebd9875cdfe8d36dbe7.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552356953000000&rotate=90)
![High tide at sunset in winter, with Broughty Castle in background and boy silhouetted in foreground.](/media/7895/broughty-castle-sunset.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552356913800000&rotate=0)
Artwork
See all![Silhouettes of industrial towers spewing out fumes into the blazing sky, wearing away the ozone layer.](/media/7902/psx_20210618_100909.jpg?rxy=0.5432098765432098,0.4482758620689655&height=400&rnd=133552357874730000&rotate=0)
![This shows a rocky coastline at Silver sands beach, Aberdour which is being tarnished by the sea. Created in Tea stain, watercolour and gouache.](/media/8099/img_4697.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357869130000&rotate=0)
![Despair over environmental destruction...how, when, where to make change?](/media/7985/if-not-now-when.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357835200000&rotate=0)
![What about the Bees. The sign is shaped like a beehive.](/media/7982/what-about-the-bees.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357775030000&rotate=0)
![A woman, unable to breathe rushes into a landscape filled with oxygen-emitting flowers--with the awareness that Nature is what will save the planet.](/media/7980/transitory-landscape-where-ruins-grow.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357633430000&rotate=0)
![Beach Litter](/media/8096/plastic-in-the-sea.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357583030000&rotate=0)
![The Grim Reaper takes holidaymaker's tickets at Kirkwall Airport. An announcement states "Last call for life on Earth."](/media/7866/last-call-for-life-on-earth-by-martin-laird.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357554930000&rotate=0)
![I drew a picture of what I think deforestation is and how it is affecting the animals in the forest.](/media/8076/inshot_20211128_145813611.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357482270000&rotate=0)
![The unstoppable force of the river in flood destroying historic buildings.](/media/7938/this-is-an-emergency-sonias-bistro-hawick-collapse-in-flood-2020-small.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357253770000&rotate=0)
![Acrylic Painting with a woman submerged in water](/media/7945/out-of-air.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357116130000&rotate=0)
![A painted wooden sign to raise awareness of habitat/animal/plant loss and climate change.](/media/7941/less-cutting-of-nature-scott-barden-xr-sign-2019-and-2021.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552357028370000&rotate=0)
![Art Signage- painting on wood](/media/7981/climate-change-tryptich-2021.jpeg?height=400&rnd=133552356981770000&rotate=0)
![This Monochrome Photograph features am image of a basketball engulfed around the Scottish countryside where it doesn't belong.](/media/8098/img_7508.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552356938530000&rotate=0)
![Ozone layer and the harmful rays of the sun.](/media/8013/psx_20210618_100909.jpg?height=400&rnd=133552356882900000&rotate=0)
![A mixture of pen & ink drawing, photo-shop & collage, illustrating a Teams Meeting including an ‘all knowing character from Scottish folklore.](/media/8105/the-uninvited-guest-bean-nighe-sandy-lightbody-this-is-an-emergency.jpeg?height=400&rnd=133552356791230000&rotate=0)