climate crisis

From our autumn special issue Dark Ocean, an extract from a story about an island made of rubbish in the climate-threatened Maldives. Lawrence Lenhart investigates the global garbage dump that is Thilafushi. With undersea photographs by Nick Brandt.

We begin our new year archive month on an Icelandic glacier with the novelist Andri Snær Magnason in an essay first published in our 2019 special issue on place and belonging, 'Dark Mountain: Issue 14 TERRA'.. Introduced by Nick Hunt.

Final post in this Dark Kitchen online sister series running alongside our latest book, Jonny Randall draws connections between bodily and planetary health, exploring restorative practices not only for our individual bodies but the soil we all depend on.

Today activist and writer Andrew Boyd introduces his new book, 'I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor', which is published this month.

Today Dark Mountain co-founder Dougald Hine introduces his new book, 'At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics & All the Other Emergencies, which he begins to tour in the UK this month.

In the wake of COP27, James Roberts drives a scenic route down the Elan Valley in Wales into a poisoned landscape that holds the untold stories of a people who once toiled there.

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