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Writer and marine ecologist Alexander McMaster charts our familial connections with creatures of the sea both ancient and contemporary, tracking a course through our tempestuous times by way of reintegration with the broader world.

Fourth post in this Dark Ocean series celebrating our current issue, writer 'Maeve Reilly trawls her ancestral DNA to find a key to surviving climate cataclysm in the undersea territory of Doggerland.

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.

This week we are showcasing two practices from our new issue: today Anisa George gives instruction for her ancestral practice, Planting Garlic.  With artwork by Dan Porter and Candace Jensen, Happy Samhain everyone!

'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

Second post in our new year archive series is a forest encounter with the ancestors by Danish mythteller Andrea Hejlskov, chosen by Dark Mountain artist and maker Caroline Ross. From Issue 9.

Nathanael Bonnell re-examines the role of maps in the context of place, culture, colonialism and future-history and asks what will the new maps look like, and how will we create them?

Cayte Bosler retraces the roads taken by pioneer US motorist Alice Ramsey, seeking what remains of the natural world in 'this strange age of technocratic fever dreams'