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Robert Dex

Fifty jellyfish to fill the Royal Academy for exhibition about climate change

Fifty live jellyfish and a digital rhinoceros will call the Royal Academy home for the next few months as part of a new exhibition highlighting the effects of climate change.

The sea creatures, which will kept in a tank at the Piccadilly building, are a rare example of a species that actually benefit from rising temperatures as it extends their breeding season while over-fishing removes many of the predators that feed on them.

Other exhibits featured in Eco-Visionaries: Confronting a planet in a state of emergency include a life-size reproduction of a northern white rhinoceros, a species where the last male died in 2018.

Also included is a film by London-based architect Nerea Calvillo Madrid In The Air, which was filmed over 24 hours and shows the gradual damage down to the skyline by air pollution.

Eco-Visionaries: Confronting a planet in a state of emergency at the Royal Academy of Arts from November 23 to February 23.

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