Stories

The World is a Spirit Vessel

At first sight, our modern age might seem to have proven this passage from the Tao Te Ching wrong.

In (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...

Striving for Equity

Tim Leeson caught up with Zayaan Khan following the launch of Before Simon’s Bay, a permanent marine and environment exhibition at the Simon’s Town Museum, for which Zayaan was a contributing artist.

Rights of Nature

A number of countries have passed laws granting rights to nature, but we should not assume that this legal mechanism always benefits the environment.

Be the Revolution

Brazilian Indigenous activist, environmentalist, and politician, Sônia Guajajara was born in 1974 on Terra Indígena Araribóia (Araribóia Indigenous Land).

The Grammar of Being

How our use of language can define our relationship with the natural world.

The Mathematics of Nature

Through understanding the numerical designs at work in the world, I feel closer to nature.

Two Hundred and Fifteen Seeds, Unearthed

When I think of native species, I have a nostalgic reverie for the plants I grew up alongside.

The 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.

Wax and Wane

Tuning into the cycles of the moon can help connect us to nature and give our lives direction.

After the Winter

Reconnecting with the Earth can help us recover from the pandemic and prepare for the future.

The 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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Life’s Resilience: the Perspective of Deep Time

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

The Future is Ancestral

Ailton Krenak, born in the Doce River valley in Minas Gerais, is a member of the Krenak people and has become one of the main voices in defence of Indigenous peoples’ rights in Brazil.

Future Proof

As climate change-induced extreme weather events ravage countries across the world, governments and planners are having to rethink infrastructure alongside cutting carbon emissions.

No Planet B

It’s December 2022, and the UN Biodiversity Conference, COP15, is finally happening.