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What Would It Mean to Live in the Clouds?
If one can dream up a better future for humanity or for whatever species humans evolve into, why replicate the past?
Places
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Amid a Pandemic, Finding Rootedness in An Urban Forest
When I walk the dog or run errands, I pay attention to the trees around me. It roots me in the now.
Places
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An Island of Trash at the Top of the World
On a remote island north of the Arctic Circle, several centuries’ worth of human-made pollutants have come to rest.
Places
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‘I Don’t Have to Tell You I’m Scared’: Inside One Syrian Family’s Displacement
“I felt as if the world was coming to an end.”
Places
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A Profound Desert Monument, or the Most Useless Tunnel in the World?
Burro was regarded by his contemporaries as a crazy person.
Nonfiction
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Cities are making the change to “green”
Is your city going green? If not, it’s time to make that change.
Places
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How Citizens Pitched in After the Mexico City Earthquake
A down pillow, grey with dust, came down the line. I was angry at it, at how light it was, how easy it was to pass.
Places
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Clouds That Shouldn’t Be There: How Photos are Changing What We Know About Jupiter
Polar cyclones. A huge magnetic field. A whole new Jupiter?
Places
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A Syrian Family Under Siege in Eastern Ghouta
“No one can answer if I ask why someone wants half a million people dead.”