WorldThe Last Deep-Water Port Before the Ice
As the northern passage opens for a record fifth consecutive summer, the fortunes of one remote harbour town have become a barometer for the whole shifting geometry of world trade.
WorldThe Understudy's Century
Twelve Years of Quiet Data on a Warming Gulf
The buoys were meant to last three seasons. What they recorded instead has quietly rewritten a chapter of the models.
What the Archive Kept and the Catalogue Lost
Half a million photographs, one index card apiece, and a filing system that outlived the institution that built it.