Silica Mag

Terra Preta

How to Reverse-Engineer a Rainforest

By Casey Halter

6/15/2020

On Russian Terraforming

The Space Race to Re-Engineer Our Imagined Futures

By Shannon Lee

6/15/2020

Permafrost Slump

Arctic communities are living in the future nobody wants

By Ryan Strother

6/15/2020

Regolith Cities

Earth's First Off-World Colonies Will Be Built On Soil

By Dyllan Furness

6/15/2020

Peat In Heat

Inside Indonesia's Fight to Save Its Most Important Soil

By Nithin Coca

6/15/2020

Toxic Coast

Cleaning up a century of industrial waste in urban New Jersey

By James Dinneen

6/15/2020

✉️ Introducing: The Dirt Issue

A Letter From the Editors

Metamorphosis in Miniature

Meditations on Beetle Rearing

By Joe Sutton

5/25/2020

The Soil Stripped Bare

A Twining History of Slavery in America's South

By Lynne Peskoe-Yang

5/25/2020

Slag Heaps

Protecting the Ecology of Post-Industrial Pollution

By Marion Henry / Brunella Danna-Allegrini

5/25/2020

Where Does the Dirt Go?

How Spectacle Island Was Transformed From Landfill to Lush

By Ashira Morris

5/25/2020

Mix — 1:05:14

Potting Mix: An Ode to the Earth

Black Planet. Emergent Strategy. Tribalismo.

Set by Sienna Fekete

5/26/2020

No UNESCO

The Politics of Dirt in the Contemporary Klondike

By Christopher Healey

5/25/2020

Under The Road

Let’s Stop Farming Pavement and Let Other Things Grow

By Elisabeth Nicula

5/25/2020

Soil Structure

Interpreting soils by their intrinsic property, behavior, or genesis for diverse uses

By Angelina Dreem

5/25/2020

Sounding the Anthropocene

As Climate Crises Visibly Intensify, We Must Not Forget Our Ears

By Max Levin

5/25/2020

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

Lakes

Issue 1

2016

A Deep Dive into Incredible, Unexplored Freshwater Bodies