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Confluences: On Sarah Ghazal Ali

Welcome to Confluences, a column on art, kinship and life.

Two Hundred and Fifteen Seeds, Unearthed

When I think of native species, I have a nostalgic reverie for the plants I grew up alongside.

Notes on the Limit of Our Skin

Artist Maria Laet’s work seeks to mend the divide between the elements and reminds us that an imprint on the planet is an imprint on ourselves.

The Human Cosmos

When NASA astronaut Chris Hadfield climbed out of the International Space Station for his first spacewalk in April 2001, it was the culmination of decades of training and preparation.

Bathed in Light

The healing properties of the sun, thought to be a cure for tuberculosis, influenced Modernist medicine, literature and architecture.

Be the Revolution

Brazilian Indigenous activist, environmentalist, and politician, Sônia Guajajara was born in 1974 on Terra Indígena Araribóia (Araribóia Indigenous Land).

Microcultural Revolution

OmVed Gardens’ head chef Jo March caught up with chef, fermentation expert, food scientist and author David Zilber to discuss food culture, existence, symbiosis and harmony.

Back From The Brink

A creative approach to conservation, based on research into the link between nature and wellbeing, delves into how much wild connections matter for us.

Meeting the Wild: a Facilitator’s Field Notes

Rewilding the self requires us to move away from our anthropocentric notions of ourselves and embrace being at one with nature.

Confluences: On 'EO'

Welcome to Confluences, a column on art, kinship and life.

The Grammar of Being

How our use of language can define our relationship with the natural world.

In Favour of Life

Drawing inspiration from Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement, chef, author and food activist Bela Gil believes agroecology is key to averting climate change and ending food poverty.

Women of the Earth

Fabrícia Sabanê is the coordinator of the Associação das Guerreiras Indígenas de Rondônia (AGIR), an organisation working alongside Indigenous women in the State of Rondônia, Brazil.

Teko Porã

The good and beautiful paths of bem viver

Radical Roots

In this guide to radical kinship, everyone from urban dwellers to farmers follow the journey of rerooting and rewilding through myth-telling as we step into the realms of the more-than-human world.

Plant Teachers

To heal ourselves and the planet, is it time to tread more quietly to hear the lessons from the more-than-human world?

An Uncomfortable Truth

The green façade of Nilgiris hides an uncomfortable truth - that human intervention has destabilised a fragile ecosystem, threatening an ancient culture and the existence of native species.

Rights of Nature

A number of countries have passed laws granting rights to nature, but we should not assume that this legal mechanism always benefits the environment.

Ya nomaimi! Ya nomaimi! Ya nomaimi!

The Yanomami say that Omama, the demiurge, created the tree of dreams so that humans could dream. When the flowers of this tree bloom, dreams are sent to the Yanomami.

The Queer Pluriverse

Words by Prishita Maheshwari-Aplin
Illustrations by Paola De La Cruz