While sand beaches comprise just over 30% of the world’s ice-free shorelines, the collective idea of the sand beach can sometimes cast a much bigger shadow.
That imagined beach can even have an influence on other fields of science — like plastic pollution.
Featuring <a href="https://maxliboiron.com/" target="_blank">Dr. Max Liboiron.</a>
Links
Liboiron’s essay, <a href="https://orionmagazine.org/article/plastics-in-the-gut/" target="_blank">“Plastics in the Gut,” </a>published in Orion Magazine.
Outside/In Book Club
The pick for the first book is <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781619028258" target="_blank">Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape</a> by geologist and writer Lauret Savoy.
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Book Club: Trace

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