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Whale Whispering

Michaela Harrison is an international vocalist and healer whose career is rooted in relaying the elevating, transformational power of music through song.

Entangled Lives

Our lives are inextricably entangled with the lives of other species. Artists and creatives are attempting to recognise this through reciprocal gestures towards nonhumans.

The Garden as a Mother

Discovering the enchanting teachings of the garden: a journey of nourishment, gratitude and connection.

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...

The Wild Inside Us

If we want to help nature to restore itself, we need to start looking at our borders through the eyes of our ecosystems.

Seed Time

A Poem by Will Burns

Re-Indigenising the Land

Harnessing the guiding light of their traditions and beliefs, the Indigenous Manobo youth of Bukidnon, in the Philippines, are leading the way in preserving their land and culture.

Finding the Balance

There is an imbalance of power in the environmental movement. If we are having conversations about the future of the planet, then we need to include everyone.

Langar

At Sikh temples, food is provided to any and all who wish to eat, regardless of faith or identity. Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck looks at the practice of Langar as a model of inclusion and compassion.

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.

Confluences: On 'Meandering'

Welcome to Confluences, a column on art, kinship and life.

My World Your World

In an extract from her latest book, Beastly: A New History of Animals and Us, Keggie Carew unearths a remarkable tale of kinship between animals and humans in the Białowieża Forest.

Resetting Global Food Systems

As global food systems and supply chains have been disrupted by Covid-19, Francis Mwanza, researcher and writer on African and local foods, and former head of office of the United Nations World...

Confluences: Valeria Luongo and the ethics of storytelling

Welcome to Confluences, a column on art, kinship and life.

Life’s Resilience: the Perspective of Deep Time

A palaeontologist reflects on historic extinction events and what we might learn from them today.

Decolonising the Garden

Meet the ‘outspoken gardener’ who sees possibilities of an otherwise. During the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, gardener Sui Searle founded the platform Decolonising the...

The Water Element of Five Element Taoist Medicine

The energetics of the five elements are a constant presence within the cosmos, our solar system, our earth and the vital life force behind everything we do.

Born. Living. Will. Die.

Poem by Camonghne Felix

Occupation Kitchen

How the kitchen of an occupied building in São Paulo, Brazil, became part of a social justice movement to provide food, shelter, cultural activities and job opportunities.

Between the Dog and the Wolf

The artists reflect on remnants of ancient ways of thinking, cautionary tales and the recognition of consequences.