Cities— Feature
Shade Is a Public Utility
Shade has never appeared on a municipal asset register. A handful of cities are now mapping it street by street, and discovering how unevenly it is distributed.
Ongoing series
Heat, Water, Shade
Adaptation is usually reported as a future problem. It is a present occupation for the people in this collection — measuring shade, tracking saltwater, arguing over quotas, clearing channels before the rain. Reported from four continents, and continuing.
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Environment— Feature
The Quota Meeting
Fishing quotas are set annually in a room most fishers will never enter. Veyra sat outside one for eleven hours and spoke to the people on both sides of the door.
Environment— Report
Saltwater in the Well Field
Saltwater intrusion is measurable, predictable, and largely unmonitored at the depth where it matters. What three well fields reveal about the gap.
Environment— Photo Essay
Port Light
Four months at a working harbor, photographed at shift changes. A study of labor, weather, and the particular light of a northern winter.
The Dispatch
New installments arrive in The Dispatch.
Not a digest. One piece from the archive or the week ahead, with a note from the editor on why it was worth the reporting time.