fire

A photo series from Edith Mirante documenting a fiery ritual that takes place every year in Alaska, North American's largest wilderness area, under threat from rising temperatures and cascading ecosystem collapse.

Third post in our series on wildfire: photographers Eric Zeigler and Aaron Ellison make a pilgrimage to some of the oldest living beings, the Bristlecone pines of Nevada's Great Basin.

First of a trio of pieces on wildfires: artist Amory Abbott reports from smoke-shrouded Vancouver, with an introduction to his co-edited creative journal 'Fire Season'

Our final archive post is an allegorical tale by Kevin MacCabe, chosen by Dark Mountain writer and editor Eric Robertson, from the spring 2019 issue responding to the 'age of fire'.

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.

Steven Morgan journeys across the American wilderness to escape a raging inferno while battling an autoimmune disease, finding parallels between his porous body and this dying world.

A story of California rock and flame: Nicholas Triolo juxtaposes the tale of a narrow escape from the devastating Paradise wild fire, with the life and work of the poet Robinson Jeffers

As catastrophic fires continue to rage through West coast in the US and the wetlands of Brazil, a lament for the burning of wild lives of the forests in Washington and Australia.

As lightning strikes California and the ancient forests burn, Sara Jolena Walcott gives a searing report on the re-forming of Earth and the urgent work of decolonisation.

Latest from our just-published issue 17, two pieces set in territories of flux, between fiction and poetry: a legion of seaweed in the ocean and a land and a people that have withstood fire