
forest


Heartwood
Shaun Pett
17th January, 2024
For our third delve into the archive we go to forests of Ontario with Joanna Pocock who introduces Shaun Pett's devastating study of their dying ash trees, from our 'requiem' 'Issue 19' With main tree artwork by Laura McPhee from 'Issue 20 - ABYSS'.

Turtles Are Our Ancestors
Shrishtee Bajpai
29th November, 2023
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.


Fire Season
Amory Abbott
6th September, 2023
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'

Mother Rhus
Nastassja Noell
22nd March, 2023
In the third post in our new series The Plant Practice, artist and lichenologist Nastassja Noell has a dramatic and transformative encounter with poison ivy in the South Appalachian forest

The Fungus Among Us
Annekawilliams24
22nd February, 2023
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.

The Loss of Function
Andrea Hejlskov
11th January, 2023
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.

Spaces Between Branches
Nastassja Noell
20th July, 2022
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

Marvin’s Children
Laura Fox
4th April, 2022
Laura B. Fox retells a leafy short story about environmental despair, personal grief, and idealised ways of living.


Beast Dreaming
Nicholas
25th August, 2021
Biologist Nicholas Wilkinson had never seen a living saola. And then the dilemma about saving this endangered antelope from extinction came into his dreams.