Atmos

Climate and Culture
Volume 11 Micro/Macro
Volume 10 Afterlife
Volume 09 Kinship
Volume 08 Rhythm
Volume 07 Prism
Volume 06 Beyond
Volume 05 Hive
Volume 04 Cascade
Volume 03 Flourish/
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Volume 02 Latitude
Volume 01 Neo-Natural

In This Issue

Natural Anthem
For their new book All We Can Save, climate experts Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson gathered a chorus of 60 courageous women who are using their individual voices to create collective change around the climate crisis. The resulting anthology is an anthem for the world—at once a battle cry and unifying hymn, a mournful melody and a song of salvation that will ring true for generations to come. Read Article
Melting Point
We have lost approximately 400 billion tons of glacial ice per year since 1994—a loss so voluminous and profound that it can be difficult to fathom. So, let’s put it in perspective. Read Article
Thin Ice
With critical ice loss causing rippling effects on its rich biodiversity, Antarctica is indisputably at the frontline of climate change. Two hundred years after humankind first sighted the continent, a campaign helmed by the world’s leading explorers and experts in ocean conservation is underway to create what would be the world’s largest ocean protection act in history. Read Article
A Glacial Pace
No one knows fast like Maggie Rogers, whose music career came on like an avalanche, having gone from college graduation to playing sold-out shows at Radio City Music Hall seemingly overnight. Rather than racing further ahead, she has chosen to make her next music release a collection of past work: Notes from the Archive: Recordings 2011–2016. As she readies its release, she reflects on the unnatural pace at which artists are expected to create, what glaciers have to teach us about time, and how quarantine reminded her of what it is to be a human being. Read Article
Turning Tides
Fashion is awash with harsh truths: floods of environmental impacts, an insatiable thirst for newness at odds with calls to produce less but better, and seasons that no longer serve current climate models. But changing tides make way for a surge of ideas—an opportunity to breathe life back into the discounted and discarded, and to turn what was once forgotten into something new. Read Article
Living Legacy
Black cowboys and cowgirls have been largely written out of American history—and yet, they have blazed a trail rich in stories of strength and solidarity with the land that leads all the way to today. Rachel Cargle speaks with those who have taken up the mantle of Black horsemanship and who are writing a new future by reclaiming the past. Read Article
Cliffside Formations
Where the land meets the sea, geology reveals itself as a convergent continuum of earth and air, water and wind, space and time. The seaside bluffs of Cornwall, dominated by their granite backbones and igneous rocks, embody this notion that nature never acts alone—much like the community that calls it home. Read Article
The Ties That Bind
Western scientists are still catching up to the knowledge possessed and passed down by Indigenous peoples. With our world hanging on by a thread, Ruth H. Burns explains how its fate is inseparably intertwined with that of its original stewards—and the wisdom they hold. Read Article
A Wave of Change

A Wave of Change: Xiuhtezcatl and Nick Tilsen

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Xiuhtezcatl Martinez Xiuhtezcatl Martinez

A Wave of Change: Kevin J. Patel and Dr. Vandana Shiva

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Vandana Shiva Vandana Shiva

A Wave of Change: Wanjiku Gatheru and Peggy Shepard

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Peggy Shepard Peggy Shepard

A Wave of Change: Jamie Margolin and Jane Goodall

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On The Verge
A tipping point is a delicate state in which a seemingly minor change to a natural system can lead to a sudden and massive change in its fate, often resulting in positive feedback loops (where results feed causes, leading to amplified effects). A number of these tipping points exist today, in habitats that range from coral reefs to the Amazon Rainforest—microcosms of a world on the precipice of unprecedented change. Read Article
A Mother's Love
As the founder and executive director of GLITS—that’s Gays and Lesbians Living in a Transgender Society—Ceyenne Doroshow is here to bring sustainable and holistic care to LGBTQ sex workers through community empowerment, stable housing, health care, education, and advocacy. As a mother, she’s here to embrace you. Read Article
Hello
Whether you see them as cosmic coincidences or the unfolding of fate, a chain reaction of unlikely events led to you being here. Author Sasha Sagan—a consequence of the cosmos in and of herself, the daughter of acclaimed astronomer Carl Sagan—sheds light on what we know about how you got here and, more importantly, what we don’t know. Read Article
Fine Lines
Through panoramas and reflections on opposing natural landscapes, photographer Théo de Gueltzl and Ralph Cox trace horizons from the Swiss Alps to the Mediterranean Sea. Read Article
I, Xingu, Am Dying
Eliane Brum writes from the perspective of the Xingu River, in Brazil, which faces imminent death as hydroelectric power plants and dams threaten natural and human life. Read Article
Unwinding Time
During lockdown, photographer Vava Ribeiro set foot throughout a Hawaii temporarily void of human life but rich with natural landscapes to capture rare, primordial panoramas—before sunrise and after dark. Read Article
Toxic Waters
The pervasive poisoning of our world’s waters not only draws parallels to the toxicity of systemic racism; both further one another. An ocean explorer and the first Black woman to host a science series on television, Danni Washington, wants you to know that there is no remedying one without the other. Read Article
Into The Well
Photographer Bharat Sikka reflects on the journey of water in India—its sounds, its smells, its colors, its pace—and how our lives revolve around it. Read Article
Going Viral
Virality just might be the word of 2020, speaking not only to the global pandemic but also to the transmogrification of social media into a modern-day agora, in which any given message, when multiplied, can radically change the cultural conversation. Read Article
Nocturnal Evolution
Like most during the pandemic, photographer Alexandra Leese saw the impact humanity’s collective isolation had on the natural world—as a moment to survey our ecological footprints but also a chance to watch from afar nature’s ability to regenerate and restore. Read Article
Safe Passage
Over the last six years, more than 15,000 refugees have perished while traversing the Mediterranean Sea, seeking safety on foreign shores. Search-and-rescue operation SOS Mediterranée saves countless lives—but thanks to a pandemic and political standoffs, ships like the Ocean Viking are sitting empty at port. Read Article
As The Water Flows
Reclaiming ancestral knowledge has allowed photographer Evan Benally Atwood to explore their gender beyond colonization. For our latest issue, Atwood honors their family and femininity in the Diné tradition through a spirit-led relationship between themselves and their lens. Read Article
Humus to Human
Humanity has had an inarguable impact on the earth beneath our feet—and yet even the name of our species derives from the same word as soil. Read Article
Crowning Glory
For our latest issue, photographer Daniel Shea captured Alaska’s treasured Tongass during lockdown—now, the site of one of the biggest public lands rollbacks of our time, suffocating the lungs of the country. Read Article
The American Monument
Photographer Jeremy Everett captures America’s abandoned marble quarries—defective monuments once used for monoliths and headstones that now sit empty, embedded into the earth as skeletons of forgotten landscapes and scenes of hollowed histories set in stone. Read Article
Nature's Blueprint
Via cyanotype printing, art director and photographer Namsa Leuba turns nature inside out—a digital dissection of matter and human thought via classical and modern photography. Read Article