: Facilities in Finland designed to store nuclear waste for 100,000 years, forcing us to think about a future far beyond human life.

Macfarlane takes readers through several "layers" of this archive:

Robert Macfarlane’s Underland is a "deep time" exploration of Earth's subterranean spaces. Just as a compressed file holds vast amounts of data in a small space, the "underland" holds the compressed history of our planet.