Stories

Photography

Dispersal

Seeds come in as many different shapes, sizes and designs as the plants they are to become. They float, they fly, they stick and they burst. A photographic exploration of the structures and...

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Features

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.

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End of Life Environmentalism

US environmentalists are challenging established death conventions by demonstrating alternatives to managing the end of life.

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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...

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Photography

Defining the Dacha

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

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Banking 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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Interviews

EarthLore

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

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Photography

The Journey Home

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

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Photography

Zina and I

Ukrainian photographer Antonina Savytska shares an intimate portrait of her relationship with her aunt Zina, documenting her response to Zina’s death from cancer.

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Features

Coco De Mer

Horticulturalist Paul Gazerwitz is enchanted by the curiouslife and history of the sea coconut.

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Essays

The Garden Transcripts

The garden is a place of memory, movement and interaction - constantly shifting.

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Essays

Time is Running Out for Africa

Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate was concerned by a lack of awareness of the climate crisis in her country, and began a series of strikes to demand action from the government.

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THENATUREKIND

I’m trying to be a better daughter to nature. For a long time, our relationship was very one sided.

Ellen is a public speaker, activist and guerrilla gardener who founded Nature is a Human Right, the campaign to make access to green space a universal right.
Essays

Bringing the Climate Crisis to Our Doorsteps

Climate change is more than just melting ice caps in a remote part of the world, it is an issue that affects us all, even if some of us don’t yet realise it.

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Essays

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.

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Essays

Death: The Giver of Life

We should celebrate death as a natural part of the life cycle, because it is the giver of future life and nourishment.

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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.

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