The Docket

Spanish colonists replaced Indigenous flood management with appointed judges in 1570s Peru—then watched ancient canals fail catastrophically when El Niño arrived.

A Kansas seed library confronts climate reality through one evening's impossible choices: which heritage varieties to abandon, which experimental crops to risk, which stories to let die so farmers can survive shifting seasons.

An atmospheric scientist confronts the broken temporality of slow catastrophe, where Iowa's 40-inch rainfall deficit began everywhere and nowhere, the monitoring systems contradicting themselves, language collapsing around events that refuse the grammar of onset.

A Tennessee court's 1904 decision to prioritize copper jobs over environmental destruction created America's first man-made desert and established legal precedents that still govern how communities weigh economic survival against ecological collapse.

A Colorado suburb's 2041 HOA meeting reveals how climate disruptions force communities to choose between individual property rights and collective survival infrastructure.