The Big Thaw

hris Linder wants people to care about frozen dirt. But how does he get people to care about something that’s difficult to see? Linder, a science and natural history photographer, has spent the past decade with scientists studying thawing permafrost in the Arctic. His latest book, (Braided River, 2019), chronicles the expeditions of the Polaris Project, a scientific undertaking led by the Wood-well Climate Research Center (formerly Woods Hole Research Center). Since