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Service No Service
“Listen,” says K. “Not even the radio’s working.” Blips of static as her fingertips spin the dial. The low hum of our tires on the hardball....
An Hour at the Salon
Ash falls on your shoulders as you walk towards a salon for a manicure. You see the smoke. The air smells like your grandfather’s ashtray....
What I Thought I Had
My father’s property sat at the end of the newly cut Dream Farm Road—a steep rutted track through uncut forest, bordered by the Point Reyes...
Panama for Indoor Cats
Editing this issue of Panorama has been unexpected. One, I’m rather infamous among friends and the travel writing community for my dislike of nature. It’s...
Remarkable Trees: Biodiversity & Economic Botany
Following the UN’s International Day of the Forest on the 21st March, Julia Knights spoke to Tony Kirkham, one of the world’s leading experts on trees to learn more about...
Juma
In the last days of December 2006, news that gold had been found in the Juma basin quickly spread throughout the Amazon, attracting men and...
Isolation in Iceland
Iceland in winter is the closest one can get to living in eternal night. This country is extraterrestrial; a stretch of solar landscape, rock formations,...
Ancient America’s Corn Corridor
‘Looks like it’s broken,’ he said pointing to the two holes in the ground. We were having dinner with Benito Treviño and his wife Toni at...
Waves and Whalesong
‘Intertidal is the part of the shoreline that appears during low tide and is hidden during high tide. In some places it is thin, in...
Issue 11: Ecology
Welcome to Panorama’s 11th edition. In this issue we turn our attention to ecology—from the word’s earliest roots to present-day ecologies which span people, organisms,...
Twenty Dollars Fake American, A Foreign Drama
We’re in the back office of a Peruvian lockup, two miles from the border of Ecuador, and I’m pleading with the sergeant in his pressed...
Cradle Dreaming
There wasn’t much sunlight filtering in but the place still felt like the inside of a cathedral—not only the soaring ceilings and brilliant colours like...
Watershed
A few years ago, during the Trump administration, I took a job as the doctor at a country music festival. It wasn’t the cast of...
Doll's Eye
Wet dawn. The wind moaned. White lightning hooked itself violently into the land. Overnight, the sky had cracked open entirely, rain spilling like grey ink...
The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity
We estimate there to be some 8.7 million species globally. For plants, we believe around 2 in 5 species are at risk of extinction –...
Night Farmers
The grand old train station, Hua Lamphong, in central Bangkok, has no cafe per se. Instead there is a food court. The food court offers...
Staring Down the Language Barrier
The first language I heard was Arabic. I am sure of it although I don’t actually remember. I do know the endearments toward babies, ill...
Pain & Joy, Loss & Recovery
Imagine visiting home after three years with a new perception of, and feeling for, your homeland. I’ll take you on a tour of Vietnam to...
Issue 9: Borders
In this issue we have work from India, Nigeria, Philippines, Israel, Netherlands, UK, USA, Brazil, South Korea, Thailand, Germany, Italy, and more. In many ways...
It All Means Everything
South across the river, it was rising over the silhouettes of trees to fill the sky. It was close, seemed to be getting closer, and...
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