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A towering wall of dust rolling towards a small farmhouse on flat land

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Ground, water and weather, photographed from close up and from orbit.

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Stratford, 1935

A wall of dust approaches a farmhouse on the Texas panhandle, and the photograph became one of the images that fixed a decade.

  1. Field Note

    The roots of a coast

    Seen from orbit, the estuaries of Guinea-Bissau branch like a root system, because the process that made them is the same one.

  2. Photo Essay

    The ridge at Khongoryn Els

    A dune field in the Gobi, where the only straight line in the landscape is the one the wind makes.

George Everett Marsh Jr. / public domain

4 stories · June – August · Page 1 of 1

  1. Field Note

    Bois Raquet in December

    A planted conifer stand in the High Fens, photographed in the week of the year when it admits the most light.

    By Linnea Holm · 1 min