Gail Bichler, design director: “We decided to make dirt the hero of our cover because of its potential role in fighting climate change. It’s a challenge to make a compelling visual of dirt, but Robin Broadbent’s image of it shaking loose from spidery roots and cascading down the cover lends it dynamism and beauty.”
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