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Place is Not a Character—It is Its Own Story

Place is Not a Character—It is Its Own Story

Morgan Thomas on the Way We Write Natural Landscapes

By Morgan Thomas | January 25, 2022

Grief and Celebration: On the Traumatic Histories and Beauty of Growth in Soil

Grief and Celebration: On the Traumatic Histories and Beauty of Growth in Soil

Camille T. Dungy on the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | January 24, 2022

Life and Death Among the Vanished in the Himalayas’ Parvati Valley

Life and Death Among the Vanished in the Himalayas’ Parvati Valley

Harley Rustad on the Mystery of the Disappeared

By Harley Rustad | January 11, 2022

Dissolving Genre: Toward Finding New Ways to Write About the World

Dissolving Genre: Toward Finding New Ways to Write About the World

Ingrid Horrocks on Reimagining the Relationship Between the Human and the Non-Human

By Ingrid Horrocks | January 6, 2022

“Beneath Old Douglas Firs.” Fred Bahnson’s Tribute to Barry Lopez

“Beneath Old Douglas Firs.” Fred Bahnson’s Tribute to Barry Lopez

This Week From the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | January 3, 2022

Migrants with Wings: On Flying Reindeer and the Inevitability of Migration

Migrants with Wings: On Flying Reindeer and the Inevitability of Migration

Jill Stoner Considers the Artificiality of Borders in a World Full of Crossings

By Jill Stoner | December 23, 2021

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Tristan McConnell on the Long, Ongoing History of Turkana

By Emergence Magazine | December 20, 2021

Does Climate Fiction Make a Difference?

By Matthew Schneider-Mayerson | December 16, 2021

How a Sense of Awe Can Ignite Creativity

By Emily Willingham | December 15, 2021

The Urgency of Rachel Carson’s Sea Trilogy in a Time of Climate Crisis

The Urgency of Rachel Carson’s Sea Trilogy in a Time of Climate Crisis

Sandra Steingraber on Carson’s Legacy and What We Are Losing

By Sandra Steingraber | December 14, 2021

<em>Stuntboy, in the Meantime</em> by Jason Reynolds, Read by a Full Cast

Stuntboy, in the Meantime by Jason Reynolds, Read by a Full Cast

Excellent and Lively Family Listening

By Behind the Mic | December 13, 2021

Searching for the Sacred on a<br> Planet in Crisis

Searching for the Sacred on a
Planet in Crisis

Megan Mayhew Bergman on Reconciling the Scientific and the Spiritual

By Megan Mayhew Bergman | December 9, 2021

Secrets of the Sea: On the Hidden Past of Orford Ness and the Residue of Human Destruction

Secrets of the Sea: On the Hidden Past of Orford Ness and the Residue of Human Destruction

Polly Crosby Revisits Her Childhood in a Small Village in Suffolk, England

By Polly Crosby | December 9, 2021

Amitav Ghosh on the Urgency of De-centering Humans and Re-centering Land

Amitav Ghosh on the Urgency of De-centering Humans and Re-centering Land

This Week From the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | December 6, 2021

“Adapting to the Reality of the River.” Nathaniel Rich on the Political Game Around Climate Change

“Adapting to the Reality of the River.” Nathaniel Rich on the Political Game Around Climate Change

This Week from the Big Table Podcast with JC Gabel

By Big Table | December 6, 2021

Neal Stephenson Has Some Opinions About the Metaverse

Neal Stephenson Has Some Opinions About the Metaverse

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | December 3, 2021

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