ecology

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.

Final post in our introduction to The Plant Practice series: Sara Angelucci goes into the night to record the flowers and insects of her home territory in Canada

This week scientist and writer Anneka Williams delves into the underground world of the largest organism, a pathogenic fungus stretching for miles in the soil of an Oregon forest.

For our Under the Canopy series: Lichenologist Nastassja Noell takes her paint box into the forest and perceives our relationship with trees and life from a radically different perspective

Alexa Firmenich plunges us into the Earth's 'staggering bedlam' of complex and symbiotic relationships and asks what happens when they disappear?

First of our watery posts this month, Warren Draper follows the currents of his homeland river Don in Yorkshire, and contemplates the radical act of immersion With music and video.

On this month's Dark Kitchen table: artist duo Cooking Sections' CLIMAVORE project on the island of Skye and an extract from their 'island book' 'Salmon - A Red Herring'

On the destruction of home and habitat at the tail end of civilisation