The Lightning Field
Joanna Pocock
27th February, 2019
1. Deserts In the late 1950s the writer and environmentalist Edward Abbey worked as a...
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Never Too Cold for Ice Cream
Siana Fitzjohn
21st February, 2019
‘Hi Siana. It’s Abi here from Greenpeace.’ ‘Oh hi, I saw some missed calls…’ ‘Yes,...
Greenstone Axe
Mat Osmond
18th February, 2019
The question was put to me by a friend, a Haitian New Yorker called Delcarmise...
In Search of a Lexicon for the Deep Core
Charlotte Du Cann
13th February, 2019
Charlotte Du Cann writes of the Underworld, mythos and Deep Adaptation
Summit & Abyss
Alice Cunningham and Conohar Scott
7th February, 2019
Today we bring together two artists whose work is inspired by the marble quarries at Carrara and Pietrasanta in Tuscany, Italy.
Dark Mountain: Issue 14 TERRA
The Autumn 2018 issue is a collection of prose, photography and printwork about journeys, place and belonging
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Dear Sophie
Nina Pick
25th April, 2018
'Why do you want to live in this world, here in this time and place? By the time you are 30 you may live a daily catastrophe beyond my ability to imagine. You may live on a hot, drought-stricken Earth as countries battle over what is left of its water. You may mourn the loss of the last animal species.' Nina Pick's letter to her unborn child. from Dark Mountain: Issue 13
Squirrel
David Schuman
11th September, 2017
'People always tell you something bad is interesting when they don’t intend to do anything about it,’ she said. David Schuman's brilliant short story from the Dark Mountain collection 'Walking on Lava'. Passenger pigeon artwork by Emily Laurens
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The Vanishing
We are living in an age of loss: the sixth mass extinction. In this section we seek responses not only to the deaths of whole species, but to the quieter extirpations, losses and disappearances that are steadily stripping our world of its complexity and beauty. How do we, as writers and artists, stay human during such times?
No Longer
9th January, 2019
Where are the Bees Now?
12th December, 2018
Disappearing Acts
5th December, 2018
Dark Mountain: Issue 14 TERRA
The Autumn 2018 issue is a collection of prose, photography and printwork about journeys, place and belonging