loss

Travelling the deserts and mountains along the southern border of the United States, writer Kim Schnuelle charts the damage done to the human and more-than-human by artificial and rigid divisions.

In the wake of COP27, James Roberts drives a scenic route down the Elan Valley in Wales into a poisoned landscape that holds the untold stories of a people who once toiled there.

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.

Fred Warren reviews Strandings, by Peter Riley – finding parallels with their loss and our own sense of spiralling climate anxiety.

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.