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Meet 5 women documenting the effects of climate change around the world

In honor of Women's History Month, NPR takes a look at five women photographing the worst effects of climate change around the world.
Dionisia Cruz, 76, stands in her roofless kitchen after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico in September 2017.

Editor's note: In honor of Women's History Month, NPR's Picture Show is taking a look at five women photographers and their photographs that highlight climate change.

Nichole Sobecki

"Today, the greatest driving force in my work is humanity's fraught, intimate and ultimately unbreakable connection to the natural world," photographer Nichole Sobecki tells NPR. She says that, too often, coverage of climate change is politicized or it's portrayed as something happening to the planet, polar bears or

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