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Running out of timeAna Campos
Bombs are falling on Kiev in a war whose outcome could bring unimaginable consequences. As if the environmental crisis were not dangerous enough for life on Earth, we must wonder: is humanity incapable of mastering its own demons? We have been blessed with an amazing planet born 4.5 billion years ago; a small fireball […]
Don’t Be Like MeMark Engineer
I have a confession to make. I’m a world class procrastinator. A heavyweight champion faffer-abouter. An Olympic standard timewaster. (This isn’t the confession. I’m just setting the scene.) It’s not great. It drives my friends and family nuts. It’s of practically no use in a climate and ecological emergency, which is all about acting […]
Contagious TalesEdited by Andrew Simms
Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology | edited by Alice Oswald & Paul Keegan
Living With Trees | Robin Walter
The Green Book of Poetry | edited by Ivo Mosley
Rebirding: Rewilding Britain and its Birds | Benedict Macdonald
Birdsong in a Time of Silence | Steven Lovatt
Twyford Rising: Land and Resistance | Helen Beynon & Chris Gillham
Return of a Native | Vron Ware
Ice Rivers | Jemma Wadham
What Climate Justice Means and why we should care | Elizabeth Cripps
What We Need To Do Now for a Zero Carbon Future | Chris Goodall
An orison for UkraineAlex Lockwood
We don’t wake up at 5:14am and check the news to see if we’re at nuclear war. We don’t go back to sleep. We don’t read Putin-expert Fiona Hill’s article ‘Yes, He Would’. We don’t blame friends for dropping out of WhatsApp groups (we can’t, they’ve left). We don’t spend an hour leaving Google […]
Notes from Deep Time: A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds | Helen Gordon
[/su_column] ‘A terrific book, especially clarifying on the Anthropocene in context. I loved the especially eye-opening last chapter on the deep future, on the disposal of nuclear waste and the human failing to […]
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The Electric BlanketFernanda Eberstadt
I was born in New York in 1960, an era when people—Americans, especially—still believed in the modern. My grandparents were wild about gadgets: at Sunday lunch, my father’s father—whose teasing always carried a whiff of terror—liked to chase his grandchildren with his electric carving knife; when we went to stay with my maternal grandmother, […]
Listen: Parables of Nutmegs and GenocideAmitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh is an influential Indian writer and environmental thinker who has won many honours for his fiction. A former academic, he’s the author of several substantial works of non-fiction, including The Great Derangement, an exploration of literature’s failure to address the climate and ecological emergency. His new work, The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in […]
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The Month of Emergencies – poemRebecca Faulkner
7.9 inches of rain fell in Central Park last night dead cicadas on the crosswalk their bodies bunched in brittle knots sticky candy sky bright with grief branches submerged by the weight of our silence a letter unread a door closed firmly & […]
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Duino – poemPatrick Mackie
Whether you can get there from here or wherever depends on whether you are there already, on whether you will find that you are already standing amidst the outspread hands of its stones, and their misty grey dawns, on whether indeed the arcs and folds of that sky really can make all location moot […]
Diver Overview – PoemSebastian Schloessingk
The Great Barrier Reef diver/cameraman ‘cried in my mask’, to see the bleaching. Mankind is beginning to take creaky baby steps towards being able to live forever. Just when there’s no more forever to live in. There is a shock that sidles from the phrase ‘humans were rare,’ as applied to time in […]