Our digital cover story, Biopoliticize This! begins this journey on a rather direct note, by calling out nine major environmental policy changes the new U.S. administration has made thus far, and their potential effects on both the land we live on and the human bodies who live here. Our following journal features, Climate v. Culture, Don’t Chase Me, Life Indoors and Strange Nature dive deeper into the Homeland theme by investigating microcosms of climate change, diversity and conservation across the nation.

Issue 2’s gallery features: California, Golf Poems, Panning/Displace and Land’s End show what can happen when artists begin to traverse humanity’s more abstract and intangible connections to environmentalism and the natural world.

Finally, explore some unnerving realities about America’s past and potential future through our commentary features, A Geologist’s Reminder, Terra Firma, and Half-Life, which vary in style from the rest of the issue and help further break down the barriers between art, science, academia and environmental reporting.

To get a fully-immersive experience of the digital mag, listen to Negative Gemini’s Homeland Mixtape while you read the issue, or, skip the text entirely and listen to every article (plus a few auditory extras) for free on the Silica SoundCloud.

As always, we’re so indebted to all of our contributors who always put so much heart, thought and soul into their work. We would also like to give a huge thank you to everyone who backed our Kickstarter campaign and allowed us, for the first time ever, to produce a physical print-only version of the magazine. Thank you for being a part of the Silica ecosystem!