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Jayson Porter

Jayson Maurice Porter is an environmental writer and assistant professor of history at the University of Maryland, College Park.

More from Jayson Porter

Bundled dried sesame in field against deep blue sky
Distillations Magazine

Sesame Plots

Diaspora in twenty-one openings.

Fotografía en blanco y negro de un hombre de pie junto a una sección transversal de un árbol enorme
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Datos ‘proxy’ que hagan justicia

La historia climática de las regiones tropicales ha sido crónicamente poco estudiada. Corregir el rumbo exigirá nuevos métodos y puntos de vista.

Black and white photo of a man standing beside a cross-section of an enormous tree
Distillations Magazine

Proxies for Justice

The climate history of tropical regions has been chronically understudied. Correcting the record will require new methods and new perspectives.

Color illustration of a desert scene with a car in the foreground and storm clouds on the horizon
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Everyday Monsoons

Washes and other gaps in the Sonoran Desert.

Black and white photo of girl with a cotton plant
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Rings of Fire

Arsenic cycles through racism and empire in the Americas.

Group of eleven older men posing with a large taxidermy fish
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Fish Hacks

Often dismissed as a “trash fish,” the porgy anchors black maritime culture.