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How to Reverse-Engineer a Rainforest
By Casey Halter
6/15/2020
Current Issue — No. 4
The Dirt Issue
Digging Deep to Unearth Fertile Futures
The Space Race to Re-Engineer Our Imagined Futures
On Russian Terraforming
By Shannon Lee
6/15/2020
Arctic communities are living in the future nobody wants
Permafrost Slump
By Ryan Strother
6/15/2020
Earth's First Off-World Colonies Will Be Built On Soil
Regolith Cities
By Dyllan Furness
6/15/2020
Inside Indonesia's Fight to Save Its Most Important Soil
Peat In Heat
By Nithin Coca
6/15/2020
Cleaning up a century of industrial waste in urban New Jersey
Toxic Coast
By James Dinneen
6/15/2020
Latest from Dispatch
New York has Been Reclassified as Subtropical
By Evander Batson
8/3/2020
The Lake… Reappears?!
By Casey Halter
7/30/2020
The Raging Wildfires in the Arctic are an Unprecedented Catastrophe
By Evander Batson
7/10/2020
Federal Judge Orders Shutdown, Drainage of Dakota Access Pipeline
By Casey Halter
7/6/2020
The Racist Legacy of Theodore Roosevelt
By Shannon Lee
6/22/2020
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Major Pipeline Under Appalachian Trail
By Casey Halter
6/17/2020
Archeologists Discover Entire Roman City Without Any Digging
By Evander Batson
6/15/2020
While We Were Protesting: Trump Weakens 3 Key Enviro Regulations, Citing COVID19
By Casey Halter
6/8/2020
Racism is a Climate Emergency
By Silica Mag
6/5/2020
Down & Dirty: Your Official Guide to Launch Week 2020
By Silica Mag
5/25/2020
Amazon Deforestation Intensifies in the Wake of COVID-19
By Silica Mag
5/21/2020
Too Hot, Too Dry: A Climate-Driven Megadrought is Emerging in North America
By Casey Halter
5/15/2020
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Meditations on Beetle Rearing
Metamorphosis in Miniature
By Joe Sutton
5/25/2020
A Twining History of Slavery in America's South
The Soil Stripped Bare
By Lynne Peskoe-Yang
5/25/2020
Protecting the Ecology of Post-Industrial Pollution
Slag Heaps
By Marion Henry
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Brunella Danna-Allegrini
5/25/2020
How Spectacle Island Was Transformed From Landfill to Lush
Where Does the Dirt Go?
By Ashira Morris
5/25/2020
Looking underground for planetary mutualism
Holobiotic Dance Floor
By Lee Pivnik
5/20/2018
A four-course introduction to the world of entomophagy
Edible Insects
By Anna Markowitz
5/20/2018
Mix — 1:05:14
Potting Mix: An Ode to the Earth
Black Planet. Emergent Strategy. Tribalismo.
Set by Sienna Fekete
5/26/2020
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The Politics of Dirt in the Contemporary Klondike
No UNESCO
By Christopher Healey
5/25/2020
Let’s Stop Farming Pavement and Let Other Things Grow
Under The Road
By Elisabeth Nicula
5/25/2020
Interpreting soils by their intrinsic property, behavior, or genesis for diverse uses
Soil Structure
By Angelina Dreem
5/25/2020
As Climate Crises Visibly Intensify, We Must Not Forget Our Ears
Sounding the Anthropocene
By Max Levin
5/25/2020
Redefining what it means to be human through CRISPR technology
Talk to Your Doctor
By Loney Abrams
5/20/2018
A factual homage to the delicious bivalve that might just save the planet
Consider the Oyster
By Shannon Lee
5/20/2018
Latest Issues
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Dirt
Issue 4
2020
Digging Deep to Unearth Fertile Futures
Critters
Issue 3
2018
Vivisecting Real & Artificial Beasts of the Modern Anthropocene
Homeland
Issue 2
2017
Surveying New American Landscapes in the Age of Upheaval