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Climate Change and Me

Co-founder of XR Universities and Polluters Out, and co-organiser of the climate strike march in September 2019, reveals how her personal history led her to become involved in the climate movement.

living forest

The Kichwa people of Sarayaku, in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest, have always held a physical and spiritual connection with the jungle and its supreme beings, in order to maintain equilibrium...

On the Horizon

The climate crisis is propelling us into uncharted territory, and our relationship with technology and nature will dictate how we navigate our way through.

Healing Pasts and Growing Futures

The rhythms of nature remind us that harshness doesn’t have to harden us.

I Live in Dandora Phase 4

Growing up in the Dandora slums in Nairobi, Kenya, was amazing - my childhood was fun. While we didn’t have much, we had a good time - especially because of our love of football. It was a place...

Communing with Nature

Drinking ayahuasca, an hallucinogenic brew made from vines found in the Amazon, is a central part of Indigenous culture in the region that, for better or worse, has become increasingly popular with...

My Local Pond is Disappearing and I Can’t Stop Watching

Last summer’s unprecedented heat resulted in a sticky end for a pond in Bromley, a town in southeast London, UK. Diyora Shadijanova charts its demise.

Holy Trees

The practice of nature worship prevalent in an Indigenous community in south India signifies the interconnected kinship of all life forms on Earth.

Circa No Future

Created over the last decade, the photographs that make up my work, Circa No Future, capture manhood, snippets of vulnerability and moments of abstraction that often go unrecognised in the day-to-day.

Rebooting Our Food Systems

Climate and food writer Thin Lei Win looks to the UN’s Food Systems Summit in September, and introduces the “action tracks” designed to address issues around the world’s food security.

Agua

I keep coming back to water scenes. I keep coming back to lakes, rivers and oceans. I like to explore the interaction of people with water. Water can disarm even the most armed of facades...

Systems Change

Colonialism, patriarchy and capitalism are at the root of the intersecting crises of climate breakdown, authoritarianism and Covid-19 in the global south.

From the Earthworm to the Economy

Nihal Ellegala created the spice agroforestry project Eko Land Produce on his ancestral land in Sri Lanka to connect and protect local farmers, families and their forests.

Voice of An Ancestor

Kendall Francis, a conservation fellow at the National Gallery in London, UK, is researching the legacies of colonialism, slavery and exploitation in artists’ materials.

The Journey Home

‘Journey is in and around us, the heather plants, the wood, the world - a constant evolution in time and space.’

Reclaiming the Darkness

Whether it’s street lighting or using our smartphones, reducing darkness from our lives actually isn’t good for our health - or our sense of our place in the universe.

EarthLore

The EarthLore Foundation focuses on helping small farming communities in Zimbabwe and South Africa to revive their traditional farming methods.

Thirty Feet Up

Urban areas may be dominated by concrete, metal and smoke, but nature still finds a place to flourish. Ecosystems are thriving 30 feet above our heads, just out of sight.

One With The Elements

The late Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta’s Earth Body series explores life, death and the impermanence of existence, using her own body to create interventions in the landscape.

Defining the Dacha

Russian photographer Kate Kuzminova peels away from city living to experience the calm and tranquillity of dacha life.