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Shetland Islands

The Syntax of Sedimentation:
An Interview with Susan Tichy

By Tracy Zeman

Woman, shadow, palms

The Language of Bodies

By Andra Emilia Fenton

Wolf

One Poem by Danielle Fleming

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Letters to America

Letter to America by Rashna Wadia

One Poem

A Life of Science

Airplane with contrail

Science in the Sky

By Kira Zeider

Lookout: Wildfire

Wildfire in forest with orange sky

Four Poems by Rachel Richardson

Guest Editorials

Aerial view of Civano

Civano: From Experiment to Model of Resilient Urbanism

By L. R. Rayburn

View the Latest in Other Currents Series

Old-fashioned pen on paper with flower petals

Love Poems as Built Environments

Typesetting blocks

Sadness as a Natural Environment

Old sailing ship in fog

Fighting Words

Breaking news on old TV

A Question for the Anti-Scientists

ARTerrain Galleries

Land in Formation: Drawings

By Nicola López

My Camera at the Head of Sinbad, San Rafael Swell, Utah 5/22/93, by Mark Klett

From Here to the Horizon: Photographs in Honor
of Barry Lopez

Curated by Toby Jurovics

Solomon's Nectar: Painting by Bethann Parker

Appalachian Narratives: Dreamscapes

By Bethann Parker

Painting with helicopter

Pyrometric: Telling Stories with Fire

By Amiko Matsuo + Brad Monsma

Unsprawl Case Studies

Sweetwater Spectrum Community

Sonoma, California

Mosaic District common area

The Mosaic District

Merrifield, Virginia

Summer sunrise at Nachusa Grasslands

Restoration, Nachusa Style

Nachusa Grasslands, Illinois

Pin Oak vs Building, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, by Matthew López-Jensen

Tree Love: Street Trees and Stewardship in New York City

Prose + Photos by Matthew López-Jensen

Reviews

Montana valley

The Complicated West
of Christine Byl’s Lookout

Review by Jessica E. Johnson

Blue jay

Slow Birding

Review by Gregory Nobles

Lee's Ferry

The Wilding of
Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter:
Melissa L. Sevigny’s
Brave the Wild River

Review by Geri Lipschultz

Moths around light

Poems of Witness and Revelation:
Pamela Uschuk’s Refugee

Reviewed by Michael Hettich

Soundscapes Podcast

Fence with flowers in morning light

Staying Power

Soundscapes Episode 8
Curated by Miranda Perrone

Okefenokee Swamp

Wildness: Life, or Death?

Soundscapes Episode 7
Curated by Miranda Perrone

Soft silhouette of woman with early morning vista

More Than Alone

Soundscapes Episode 6
Curated by Miranda Perrone

The view from atop Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania

Love Across Time

Soundscapes Episode 5
Curated by Miranda Perrone

Reviews + Recommended Reads

Montana valley

The Complicated West
of Christine Byl’s Lookout

Review by Jessica E. Johnson

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