Of Earth and Empire

Writer and activist Lara-Lane Plambeck describes her efforts, along with the artist collective RE-PEAT, to create alternative maps and unearth more embedded ways of seeing and preserving endangered peatlands.

To mark the significant recent victory of the land access movement in England, we bring you Robert Sherman's piece on the right to sleep beneath the stars on Dartmoor

What happens when an ancestral relationship between a plant and its people is severed by industralisation and the ambition of global market? 'What are the implications for the plant, the land, the people and the spirit itself?'. Photographer and writer David Lauer investigates the fate of the agave sotol in Chichuahua, Mexico.

Travelling the deserts and mountains along the southern border of the United States, writer Kim Schnuelle charts the damage done to the human and more-than-human by artificial and rigid divisions.

In our second report from India, we go to the forests of Assam with researcher Shrishtee Bajpai to hear the story of the sacred Hajong lake. and how Indigenous storytelling is a key to a  reconnection with the living speaking Earth.

In this excerpt from Dark Mountain: Issue 14 – TERRA, Juman Simaan writes about how the erasure of Palestinian fellahi (peasant) culture meets unarmed resistance in the concept of ‘Awna, a unique sense of belonging to land, community and history

Beginning in 2017, Kate Rawles traversed South America along the spine of the Andes, In today's post she outlines the journey and the mindset of extractivism that besets the extraordinary lands she travelled through.

Today we bring you an excerpt from the new collection of essays, Mossback, by David Michael Pritchett, who looks for ways to resist empire and heal our cultural wounds by immersing himself in the murky waters of our living world. Introduced by Neale Inglenook.

An owl's silent wing swoops over writer Kim Schnuelle, reminding her to seek rest in order to restore her sense of the sacred.

'Activist and writer Shrishtee Bajpai on working alongside Indigenous peoples from a pristine river in Ladakh to an urban forest in Mumbai. From our latest issue ARK

Mat Osmond reflects on 'The Magnitude of All Things;', Jennifer Abbott's searing and luminous film about of personal and planetary grief

In the light of recent climate protests, Mat Osmond considers what it entails to hold ourselves accountable to a generation facing catastrophe.