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Hanford’s B Reactor, now part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park. Even though most of the site is now deemed safe for the public, warning signs for radiological hazards are reminders that the effects of decades of contamination have not disappeared. Photography by Sean McDermott.

Cold War, Hot Mess

By Lois Parshley, Photography by Sean McDermott

Fall 2021

After decades of mismanaging its nuclear waste, the US Department of Energy wrestles with its toxic legacy.

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B&B

By Anders Carlson-Wee

Fall 2021

Before North took a seasonal job / fishing for kings in Alaska / I’d never admitted to myself / that he was my only friend.

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Photography by Alicja Wróblewska

Strange Gardens

By Meera Subramanian, Photography by Alicja Wróblewska

Fall 2021

What is beauty for? What is its source? Polish artist Alicja Wróblewska thinks about such things as she fashions fanciful sculptures, snaps photographs, and creates collages both analog and digital to explore the impact of plastics on ocean health.

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Photograph by Tom Haines

Dry Days

By Tom Haines

Fall 2021

Great Plains. One man grabs a calf’s hind leg and lifts. Another seizes a front leg and heaves, flipping as easily as possible the two-hundred-pound animal. Then each man pulls hard to keep it still.

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Earth in the Balance

By Alexander Brock, Illustrations by Jenn Boggs

Spring 2021

Nature, we learn, seeks to establish and maintain equilibrium. According to a study published late last year in Nature, Earth did just that, though not by design. It just so happens that the year 2020 marked the point at which anthropogenic mass (the mass of manmade inanimate objects) equaled Earth’s total biomass (the total mass of all living taxa, including the mass of humans and our livestock).

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