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FeaturesThe Grammar of Being
How our use of language can define our relationship with the natural world.
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FeaturesA Born Activist
Environmental activist Samela Sateré Mawé is showing how Indigenous youth in Brazil are taking control of their own narrative and using contemporary weapons in the fight to defend their territories.
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FeaturesUnderstanding Antarctica
As the polar regions reach record temperatures, two young climate justice activists head to Antarctica to experience the changes first hand.
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EssaysKarl and Nora
A journey of trust, healing, and enduring love.
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EssaysThe Call of Time
As Black cinema reconnects us with African notions of time, it also allows us to consider a more balanced relationship with life, ancestrality and the environment.
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EssaysAfter the Winter
Reconnecting with the Earth can help us recover from the pandemic and prepare for the future.
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PoemsHope Spring Eternal
Poem by Lemn Sissay
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PhotographyThe Great Mosque
Moulded by human hands and reshaped by the elements.
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PhotographyIn (our) nature
Tamara Dean’s beautifully composed photographs pull viewers into fantastical and instinctual worlds. She presents human beings immersed in ecosystems, as mammals threatened by environmental...
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FeaturesThe Waterfall
The Dutch artist Maurits Escher’s lithograph, Waterfall, is an impossible image. It depicts a waterfall running a mill - the collected water descending only to reach the top of the fall again,...
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EssaysRooted Beings
An exhibition at London’s Wellcome Collection explores the relationship between human bodies, plants, and planetary health.
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EssaysWhat Counts
Wildlife expert and naturalist Chris Packham wants to see everyone in the UK contribute to The Big Plastic Count.
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FeaturesThe World is a Spirit Vessel
At first sight, our modern age might seem to have proven this passage from the Tao Te Ching wrong.
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ConfluencesConfluences: On Calvin Chow
Welcome to Confluences, a column on art, kinship and life.
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EssaysThe Earthly Sensuous
The intense connection with the natural world that is felt by many autistic people would benefit all of us in the fight against climate breakdown.
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FeaturesNo Planet B
It’s December 2022, and the UN Biodiversity Conference, COP15, is finally happening.
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EssaysThe Beautiful Horror of Plants
How plants have embodied the uncanny in art, literature and film.
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FeaturesBanking Our Future
Ethnobotanist Harriet Gendall joins a team of scientists on a quest to bank the endangered flora of Kyrgyzstan. Seed banking can help germinate more meaningful alliances between people and plants.
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EssaysThe Garden as a Mother
Discovering the enchanting teachings of the garden: a journey of nourishment, gratitude and connection.
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FeaturesNature Rights
Natalie Koffman and Flora Gregory embarked on a project that explores whether nature should have legal rights and what the world and our lives would look like if it did.
— Issue #13