Omnia Saed is a Washington, D.C.-based journalist covering environmental justice and cultural memory across Africa and the diaspora. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, Atmos, and Hyperallergic. Fred Pearce is an environmental journalist based in the U.K. He is a contributing writer for Yale Environment 360 and the author of numerous books, including most recently A Trillion Trees: Restoring Our Forests by Trusting in Nature.