KE Chin-yuan began filmmaking back in 1980 and produced a continuous record of Taiwan’s natural landscape. After joining the News Department of Taiwan Public Television Service (PTS), he worked on the environmental news programme Our Island, producing films on a range of issues, from coastal damage, forest conservation, to environmental hazards. Between 2007 and 2009, he travelled to the Arctic Circle, Antarctica and Mount Everest to record environmental issues related to climate change, and to film the current situation on glacial retreat.