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Two writers contemplate the significance of steams in different territories: the Braamfontein Spruit in Johannesburg and the river Mel in Cambridgeshire.

To launch our new series about walking, here is an audio field guide to crossing a continent on foot

New twist on our Outbreak series: a 'palimpsest' of pieces from around the world. Today we hear from Joanna Pocock in London and Austin Jepsky in Pittsburgh, USA

Catrina Davies reflects on our perilous relationship with transport on an epic cycle across the badlands of Spain. From our anniversary issue REFUGE.

Reviews of 'Underland' by Robert Macfarlane and 'Horizon' by Barry Lopez

Introducing our new experiment to support local gatherings organised by Dark Mountain readers.

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

Francesca Schmidt reflects on winter traditions, and the significance of ritual, from the Czech-German borderlands.

From the archives, a short essay about home and the UK housing crisis.

An essay by Dave Pritchett on wilderness, the rhetoric of progress and liberation ecology.