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Including Impossibilities:
A Conversation with
Austin Araujo

By Noah Davis

Great blue heron flying over water

Letter to America Poetry

Letter to America
by Emily Van Kley

One Poem

Wildfire at night

One Poem by Craig van Rooyen

Scientists on floating ice

Poetry & Polar Science

Poetic responses to scientific papers. Submissions close August 26, 2026.

Review: Let the Voices, Poetry by Kevin Goodan

Poets for Science Gathering

November 12-14 | Wick Poetry Center | Kent State University | Kent, Ohio

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Letters to America

Great blue heron flying over water

Letter to America
by Emily Van Kley

One Poem

A Life of Science

Flooding along the Rio Copan in Honduras following Hurricane Iota

Satellites Show, Stories Tell

By Elise Arellano-Thompson

Climate Stories

Offering One

Quiet Fruit: Photographs

By Melinda Hurst Frye

Guest Editorials

Soldiers walking through smoky field

War and Its Impact
on Non-Human Life

By Teresa Mei Chuc

Rob Carney's Old Roads, New Stories

Crow Songs

Modest Mouse in concert

Music is a Natural Environment

Hawk House and Tor House

The Front Porch of the Universe

Camera, coffee, and book at ourdoor cafe

An Origin Story in Three Acts

Other Editorials and Series

AI Weigh Way

Steeped in the Waters,
the Land, the Love

Santa Cruz beach and lighthouse at sunset

Not One Place

Into Heights and Pauses

ARTerrain Galleries

Kākāwahie with Granny’s Singer, by Richard Bohannon

Atlas of Dead Birds

Paintings by Richard Bohannon

Detail, Meditations on Geometries of Water: Summer Lake.

Meditations on Geometries of Water:
Summer Lake

By Leah Wilson

(In)Visible Landscapes:
Drawings on Collaged Paper

By Elzbieta Sikorska

Artwork from Threshold 32°F

Threshold 32°F
Art, Poetry & Field Notes

By Klara Maisch, Debbie Clarke Moderow, and Rebecca E. Hewitt

Unsprawl Case Studies

Aerial view of Mueller Pond and Mueller's greenspace

Mueller

Austin, Texas

Aerial autumn view of South Main

South Main

Buena Vista, Colorado

Brunswick Station train platform

Brunswick Station

Brunswick, Maine

Downtown Philadelphia

Green City, Clean Waters

Philadelphia’s 25-Year Plan
for Stormwater Management

Reviews

Adirondacks: lake, mountains, forest, and dock with chairs

The Meanings of the Mountains:
Philip G. Terrie’s Wild Forest Lands

Reviewed by Erika Howsare

It’s Just a Matter of Time:
Heidi Seaborn’s tic tic tic

Reviewed by Charlie Kalogeros-Chattan

Bench in water

Finding a Father in Climate Change:
Jennifer Kabat’s Nightshining

Reviewed by GKS Waller

young girl with a backpack walking away through a forest

Finding Power Among the Trees:
Elline Lipkin’s Girl in a Forest

Reviewed by Deborah Bacharach

Podcast

Salton Sea

Salt Lakes:
Extraordinary Ecology and Collapse

Terrain.org Podcast: Season 2, Episode 5

Elwha River

Undammed: Setting Rivers Free

Terrain.org Podcast: Season 2, Episode 4

Beaded dress from Palestine market

No One Will Know You Tomorrow

Terrain.org Podcast: Season 2, Episode 3

Black-and-white tree illustration

In the Circle of Ancient Trees

Terrain.org Podcast: Season 2, Episode 2

Sunrise at Yosemite

Dear America

LETTERS OF HOPE, HABITAT, DEFIANCE & DEMOCRACY

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Polar scientists on ice

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Evergreens in morning light

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Young woman writing at sunset

Words, Woods, and Wellness: Poetry by Washington State Youth

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Reviews + Recommended Reads

Adirondacks: lake, mountains, forest, and dock with chairs

The Meanings of the Mountains:
Philip G. Terrie’s Wild Forest Lands

Reviewed by Erika Howsare