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Finishing this month's archive series, Hattie Pierce introduces an essay by Maeve Reilly from Issue 8: Technê, exploring how simple activities done by hand can help resist the mechanisation of our humanity.

'In the city, away from the forests and stars, we were so eager to become that we forgot how to be.' Today poet and youth activist Rucha Virmani tells of returning home to the Himalayan landscape in the midst of high-speed modernity and extractivist damage.

Mark Watson introduces a new series exploring our essential and imaginative relationships with plants, alongside fellow radical botanical Joseph Gaglione.

Writer and herbalist Frieda Kipar Bay tells of fleeing fire in California to follow the trail of migrating forests, in search of a safe haven for her family.

James Mcconachie considers the past, present and uncertain future of La España vaciada: Spain's hollowed-out interior, known for wildfires, hailstorms and abandoned dwellings.

As the year turns towards winter, Kelsey Camacho writes about Arctic darkness and light.

Editor Nick Hunt introduces a new section about trees and what they mean to us.

What happens when a sustainability expert hits a wall of despair over climate change? Professor Jem Bendell talks to Dark Mountain co-founder Dougald Hine.

Lynx Vilden is renowned in the American West for living as our Paleolithic ancestors did. Joanna Pocock joins her in the wild west of Dartmoor.

A few minutes later as we descend into a gorge, Tasha’s the one to spot...