Dust
Picturing life in the dust bowl remains of the once mighty Aral Sea
A portrait of a lone fisherman catching Artemia (a primitive arthropod also known as brine shrimp) Kristina Varaksina ONCE the fourth-largest freshwater lake in the world, the Aral Sea has now shrunk from 68,000 square kilometres to just 10 per cent of its former size. Photographer Kristina Varaksina travelled to the Republic of Karakalpakstan, an…
Can Rock Dust Soak Up Carbon Emissions? A Giant Experiment Is Set to Find Out
Mary Yap has spent the last year and a half trying to get farmers to fall in love with basalt. The volcanic rock is chock full of nutrients, captured as its crystal structure forms from cooling magma, and can make soil less acidic. In that way it’s like limestone, which farmers often use to improve…