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Islands of Abandonment

Cal Flyn explores abandoned landscapes and industrial sites reclaimed by nature, examining what happens to human places when humans leave.

January 2026
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As the geographer Susanna Hecht has said, ‘Trees have already been invented.’ All that the Earth may need to soak up enormous, climate-altering quantities of carbon is to be left alone.