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Volume 05: Hive

If the planet is to heal, we must restore harmony—which cannot exist without collaboration.

Volume 04: Cascade

Water can conform to its container, or it can gather in force as whelming as a wave. What will you choose?

Volume 03: Flourish / Collapse

A journey along the axis of abundance and absence, proliferation and putrescence, life and death

Volume 02: Latitude

An exploration of geographic location and freedom of action and thought

Volume 01: Neo-Natural

This issue seeks to answer the question: What does “natural” mean now?

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#AnthropoceneNow

The human epoch has undoubtedly brought our planet to a tipping point. The question is: will we see this juncture as a time to turn things around, or will we drive ourselves over the edge?

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Eco-Grief Around the World Climate change is transforming our world. Stories of ecological grief from around the world show how mental health is suffering.

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Trash Walking to Save the Planet Anna Sacks—known as Trash Walker for exposing the contents of residential and corporate dumpsters—on rethinking our relationship to waste.

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The Road to Recovery The failure of COP26 has left climate activists exhausted. The Frontline asks: How are you, really? And how can we feel better?

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Transcending the Human Epoch Anthropocene: The Human Epoch is a sobering documentary about humanity’s reengineering of the planet.

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Blessed are the Hungry For five youth activists, climate action is worth hunger striking for.

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Ode to a Glacier Rising temperatures have accelerated the speed with which glaciers are melting. Commemorating their histories has become a radical act.

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The Roots of Sisterhood Under the soil roots communicate with each other to help their chances of survival. Solidarity among women is not dissimilar.

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A Sustainable Redesign of Mexico’s Social Housing Architect Fernanda Canales has spent the last two decades rethinking private housing in relation to collective needs.

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Carbon-Light Cooking with Kelp Chef Tara Thomas creates two recipes using kelp, a nutrient-rich zero-input seaweed, to help inspire more mindful ways of eating.

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Revitalizing Yemeni Coffee Yemeni coffee farming has been on the decline since the colonial powers established coffee plantations in Africa and Southeast Asia.

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Rewriting the Ecological Imagination Qi refers to the force that sustains all fauna and flora on Earth. It is one of 30 loanwords outlined in a new book, An Ecotopian Lexicon.

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Intelligent Design Arcosanti was built on a bedrock of the best intentions. But it soon became a battleground between harmony and hubris.

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Practicing Ecosensibility For a new exhibition, artist Zheng Bo leads a series of exercises to help visitors move beyond a human-centered perspective of the world.

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Critical Degrees The Frontline dives into the new IPCC report, which reminds us why Indigenous people are key to climate justice.

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Disaster Justice Dr. Samantha Montano shares an excerpt on disaster justice from her newly released book, "Disasterology," with The Frontline.

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A Planetary Pulse Check Scientists raise alarm over the climate emergency and call for justice in new paper as pandemic reveals the work ahead.

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Let’s Criminalize Ecocide Efforts to make ecocide the fifth international crime are gaining steam. What are its possibilities and limitations for climate justice?

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Why Scientists Are Urging Us to Look at Managed Retreat Science published new papers last week on managed retreat and justice. The Frontline explores what this looks like in Kotlik, Alaska.

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‘The Kids Have Trauma’: The Miskito Are Not Ready for Hurricane Season Indigenous peoples in Central America are still recovering from Hurricanes Eta and Iota, lacking proper preparation for this season.

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Lizards, Snakes, and Bones: A Deadly Tale of Colonialism On the Guadeloupe Islands, European colonialism caused historic reptile extinction, a new study finds. It offers lessons for us today.

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The Disease of Disconnect In an essay for Atmos, Julia Butterfly Hill reflects on the fight that lies ahead—and what's missing from our connection to the Earth.

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Rebuilding a Hemp Ecosystem in the High Himalayas The relationship between rural communities and cannabis has long existed in the Himalayas. Hemp could revive a dying cultural heritage.

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The ‘Doomsday’ Glacier May Be in More Trouble Than We Thought A new study offers first-ever data from beneath Thwaites, the doomsday glacier, which could be bad for sea level rise.

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A Fishing Crisis in Turkey Centuries-old fishing traditions are facing extinction in Turkey. As industrial fishing expands, fishermen face hazardous conditions.

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Pandemic Alcohol Sales Have Soared. But What Does That Mean For The Planet? Increased alcohol sales during the pandemic have led to a surge in residential waste. But where does all of it go?

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India’s Desi Seed Savers Are Decolonizing Cotton Privatization of the cotton seed market has left India’s desi species close to extinction. But farmer-led movements are bringing them back.

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What Does It Mean to Travel Purposefully? Trippin’ is a platform demanding major change to the travel industry. Its report The Future of Travel gathers everything you need to know.

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#HS2Rebellion: Finding Community On The Frontlines Activist Talia Woodin captures the protesters forming collective resistance to Britain's biggest environmental threat: High Speed Railway 2.

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Fashion’s Not-So Silver Lining Clothing and face masks that claim to kill coronavirus and other “germs” have terrifying hidden risks.

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This Is Not Your Goldmine. This Is Our Mess. In an open letter to the fashion industry, Liz Ricketts says there can be no sustainability revolution without justice in supply chains.

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Forests Can’t Store Carbon If They’re Overheated A new study shows that our world’s carbon sinks may become carbon sources in only a few decades.

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The American Monument Photographer Jeremy Everett captures America's marble quarries: abandoned landscapes and scenes of hollowed histories set in stone.

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To Net-Zero & Beyond: What Atmos Editors Hope For 2021 Ahead of the new year, Atmos editors list their favorite memories in nature from 2020 and what they hope for the climate movement in 2021.

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I, Xingu, Am Dying Eliane Brum writes from the perspective of the Xingu River, which faces death as hydroelectric power plants and dams threaten its life.

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Big Fires Everywhere In the year everything burned, wildfires broke out around the globe. In some areas, they broke records. In others, they created emergencies.

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The Year Everything Burned The world caught on fire in 2020—both literally and figuratively. From wildfires to societal structures, the flames remained constant.

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The Canaries In The Gold Mine Uganda's gold boom has some of the country’s most vulnerable people scrambling to benefit. But this nonprofit is seeking to change that.

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The US Still Needs to Ban Fracking President-elect Joe Biden has been insistent he won't ban fracking, but advocates won't accept that—not when people's lives are on the line.

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On The Verge Researcher Zeenat Kader looks into several of Earth's tipping points on the precipice of unprecedented change.

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Thin Ice World leaders are meeting to discuss the largest ocean protection act in history—it might be Antarctica's last hope.

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Melting Point We have lost approximately 400 billion tons of glacial ice per year since 1994. So, let's put it into perspective.

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The Yosemite Fires: Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Wisdom Aditi Mayer looks at the history of Yosemite National Park to understand its brushes with Indigenous erasure and climate change.

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Translating a Wildfire Emergency A language gap in wildfire disaster response can severely threaten California's growing Spanish-speaking community.

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South Korea: The Future Of Trash South Korea is the world's best recycler. Elaine YJ Lee looks at why and how—and what the world can learn from its adoption of trash tech.

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Iowa Is Sinking Without flood walls to protect its banks, a city in Iowa faces the question of reshaping its riverfront or pushing its problems downstream.

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Is Anybody Out There? In space archeology, astronomers search for lost life. Abraham Loeb asks: What can we learn from the collapse of other civilizations?

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Temporary Beauty: The Environmental Impact Of Cut Flowers Janice Cantieri looks at the multibillion-dollar, global industry of cut flowers whose carbon footprint is greater than their shelf life.

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How Earth Bleeds: The Ghazipur Landfill At the Ghazipur landfill, photographer Noah Klein finds symbolism in a mountain of waste—and how our past choices affect our present.

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A Look At The Post-Coronavirus City Superblocks, the '15-minute city': European cities are set to keep their streets green after enjoying car-free, unpolluted urban spaces.

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After The Fire: A Journey Through Yuin Country Post-fires, Australia is still recovering. But its Aboriginal communities have 60,000-year old practices to save its future.

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What It’s Like To Transport 5 Million Bees Across The Country Ryan Shorosky doesn't just take photos—he's a long-haul trucker and beekeeper, too. Shorosky speaks with Atmos on the business of bees.

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Trash Talk With Artist Julia Christensen For artist Julia Christensen, one man’s junk—or e-waste—is not always another’s treasure. She chats with Atmos on the legacy of trash.

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Fierce Life: Maria do Socorro Silva In continuation of our story "The Amazon Is A Woman," journalist Eliane Brum profiles the inimitable activist Maria do Socorro Silva.

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The Amazon Is A Woman With deforestation rates at an all-time high under a right-wing regime, the women of the Amazon are fighting for their lives to save it.

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Cyclical Nature Five hundred million years ago, life on Earth existed almost entirely underwater. But there was much more to pre-human eras than dinosaurs.

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Future Earth Day Happy Earth Day! Join Atmos and Future Earth and share your resolution on social media with the hashtag #FutureEarthDay.

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Two Futures In an excerpt from their new book, "The Future We Choose," Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac paint two futures for climate change.

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Who Spilled Oil Into The Sea? Questions remain unanswered in face of Brazil’s largest environmental disaster.

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Is Instagram Killing the Environment? With one billion monthly users, Instagram offers an endless stream of windows into the world's innumerable wonders. But at what cost?

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The Execution of All Things Author and MoMA R&D director Paola Antonelli reflects on whether design has the power to shift paradigms around the future of humanity.

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Sands of Time Supply construction with a steady stream of sand might seem like a granular issue, but the hourglass might be running out for this material.

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The Palm Oil Apocalypse Are lab-engineered alternatives the solution for cutting out one of the world’s most destructive natural resources?

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Human Nature Award-winning photographer Daniel Beltrá reflects on what it takes to document devastation.

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Ode To Soylent What sustains us? One poet shares their experience trying the food-less Soylent diet.

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