loss

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.

In the first of two pieces about landscape and perception, Jane Lovell explores geographer W.S Meinig's work on the ways we look at and have relationship with the land – from Cambridgeshire fields to a devastated Kent orchard to a 'wild' Sussex estuary.

Matt Miles' essay on the loss of the American chestnut, the latest in our Under the Canopy section

Two searing poems of loss and heartbreak from our new spring issue

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

Our series on 'The Vanishing' continues with a poem by Eric Nicholson, with an image by Beatrice Forshall

Our new section 'The Vanishing' continues with Rosamund Portus on artistic responses to the disappearance of bees.

We begin 'The Vanishing', our new section about extinction and loss, with words and images about disappearing house martins by Emma Tuck.

An essay by Mary Paterson on displacements caused by war and gentrification.

Peter Metelerkamp explores the ruins of 'Settler' culture in South Africa from our Autumn issue 14 - TERRA

Of what use is the novel during the sixth great extinction?

Dark Mountain editor Tom Smith interviews author and geographer Alastair Bonnett about nostalgia in an age of ecocide.