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White pelican splashing in water

Two Poems by Andrea Carter

Forest fire

All This Witnessing:
A Review of Laura Pritchett’s
Playing with Wildfire

By Laura Donnelly

White egret preening

One Poem by Sophie Mollart

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Poetry

White pelican splashing in water

Two Poems by Andrea Carter

White egret preening

One Poem by Sophie Mollart

One Poem by Laura Isabela Amsel

Glass frog seen from beneath

One Poem by Chelsea Krieg

Nonfiction

Kudzu

Missing in Action

By Ayurella Horn-Muller
An Excerpt of Devoured: The Extraordinary Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Ate the South

The Food of Belonging

Monk on bicycle at Burning Man at twilight

Letter to America:
Burning Man in a Warming World

Winged Runners

Fiction

Muscular Activity

An Excerpt of In This Ravishing World
by Nina Schuyler

Old Rules

Boy with a guitar case crossing a bridge in the mountains of Montana

Kids Like This

Golden light through pines at twilight

Hell and Other Terrible Things that Might Happen in the Future

Interviews

Sunrise over small greenhouse at Soul Fire Farm

The Legacy of Seeds:
An Interview with Leah Penniman

By Cara Benson

Orange-crowned warbler

Nature Offers Us a Counterpoint:
An Interview with Priyanka Kumar

Macro photo of leaf with water droplets

Putting Down Roots:
An Interview with Erin Zimmerman

Grant piano on stage

Intrinsic Beauty:
An Interview with Jodie Hollander

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Letters to America

Monk on bicycle at Burning Man at twilight

Letter to America:
Burning Man in a Warming World

By Suzanne Roberts

A Life of Science

A Microbial Ensemble

By María Touceda-Suárez

Climate Stories

Offering One

Quiet Fruit: Photographs

By Melinda Hurst Frye

Guest Editorials

Wildfire smoke among a forested mountainside

Relearning Earth’s Language:
Letters Toward Liberation

By Lisbeth White, Destiny Hemphill,
and Tamiko Beyer

Rob Carney's Old Roads, New Stories

Two Jobs (for Labor Day)

Baby raccoons in a tree

One Forecast: Fire

Two Summers

Big Dipper and trees

Two Observations

Other Editorials and Series

Steeped in the Waters,
the Land, the Love

Santa Cruz beach and lighthouse at sunset

Not One Place

Into Heights and Pauses

Four Poems by Rachel Richardson

ARTerrain Galleries

Offering One

Quiet Fruit: Photographs

By Melinda Hurst Frye

What the Marsh Knows, by Ellery Akers

All of Nature as It Breathes:
Drawings in Ink

By Ellery Akers

Road Trip (video)

Escape-Route:
A Multimedia Road Trip

By Luciana Abait

Contingent Existence: Still Lifes

By Jennifer Steensma Hoag

Unsprawl Case Studies

Brunswick Station train platform

Brunswick Station

Brunswick, Maine

Downtown Philadelphia

Green City, Clean Waters

Philadelphia’s 25-Year Plan
for Stormwater Management

Sweetwater Spectrum Community

Sonoma, California

Mosaic District common area

The Mosaic District

Merrifield, Virginia

Reviews

Forest fire

All This Witnessing:
A Review of Laura Pritchett’s
Playing with Wildfire

By Laura Donnelly

AI-generated image of a silhouetted girl looking outside a window into evening

Dear America: A Review of Suzanne Frischkorn’s Whipsaw

By Simmons Buntin

AI-generated image of island with ruins above water and skull below

Presence: A Novel by Brenda Iijima

Reviewed by JoeAnn Hart

Gettysburg National Military Park

Incantation: Love Poems for Battle Sites by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo

Reviewed by Lisa Eve Cheby

Soundscapes Podcast

Bee at sunflower

The Noticing Muscle

Soundscapes Episode 9
Curated by Miranda Perrone

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

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Reviews + Recommended Reads

Forest fire

All This Witnessing:
A Review of Laura Pritchett’s
Playing with Wildfire

By Laura Donnelly