Vol. XII · No. 142 · Friday, 21 June 2026 · London & New York · £4.50

Yuki Tanaka

Science & Technology

Yuki reports on the systems we build and then forget we built — from machine learning to the slow weather of climate change.

Bylines

Deletion was supposed to be simple. In a world built on inference, forgetting turns out to be the hardest thing to engineer.

On a shrinking stretch of drowned forest, a small team is keeping a vanishing landscape on the record.