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The Big Data of Ice, Rocks, Soils, and Sediments
Places Journal
Inside the material archives of climate science, which get wilder and dirtier the deeper you go.
Control Earth
Places Journal
What is Earth’s baseline temperature? Good question. The climate scenario ‘historicalNat’ simulates a world without human intervention.
Three Lavas
Places Journal
A survey of three lava fields that have catalyzed creative interventions: in Hawaiʻi, Iceland, and Mexico City.
Eating Clay at the Bend of the Road
Places Journal
The Black diasporan tradition of geophagia, or dirt eating, has long been pathologized. Black writers and directors recover the practice as a sacred birthright.
The People’s Tunnels
Places Journal
The Chicago Pedway is a question that the city asked and left unanswered about how truly public urban space might be shaped below the streets.
Cloud and Field
Places Journal
On the resurgence of “field guides” in a networked age. We’ve moved from birding to dronewatching, from natural history to dark ecology. But are we still looking through colonialist binoculars?
Landscape Migration
Places Journal
We are now well into a geologic era — the Anthropocene — characterized by the acceleration of environmental change. This is the landscape medium in which we design.
City Ground
Places Journal
The making of geological strata — the very ground beneath feet — is an essential component of the mass shift of humankind to urban living.