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In the Dead of Night, a Deafening War
Our new series on species interconnectedness traverses through a 60-million-year-old grudge match between bats and moths—one that’s led to a rich and diverse biological tapestry.
Deep Ecology
How Humans Are Learning to Speak Whale
Humans, who have long dreamed of interspecies communication, are now working to decode the calls of two whale species. But our efforts to understand our underwater neighbors require more than just scientific investment—they take real empathy.
Science & Nature
Ocean Life
In the Amazon, Drums Carry a Message—and a Warning
In Peru, the Indigenous Bora people translated their language into drumbeats. After surviving slavery and colonization, their lifeway and language face a new threat: deforestation.
Environmental Justice
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The Mother of Invention
Tools have long been utilized throughout the animal kingdom. What can different species teach us about using our innovations to work with mother nature, rather than against her?
The Overview
Deep Ecology
Order Volume 08: Rhythm
Nature is an elaborate orchestra of interconnectedness, in which timing is everything.
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Unearthing Queer Joy
In a cultural moment where people like me are coming out into a world of pain, it can feel easier to center our hurts rather than our joy, writes Atmos contributor Riley Black.
Queer Ecology
Identity & Community
As She Rises: Poets Pay Tribute to the Colorado River
For the third season of climate podcast As She Rises, poets lend their voices to an urgent cause: the rapidly drying Colorado River. Here, read all six poems commissioned for the new season, hosted by activist and Intersectional Environmentalist founder Leah Thomas.
Art & Culture
The Changing of the Seasons
They say that the only constant is change—and nowhere is this more evident than in the seasons and cyclical rhythm of nature. But what happens when even those become undependable?
Anthropocene
Well Being
Feeding the Revolution: Claudia Serrato On Decolonizing Your Diet
In a world where everything is optimized and efficient, Claudia Serrato is slowing down. That starts with decolonizing her diet.
Changemakers
Future of Food
ANOHNI On Queer Ecology and Trans Ferality
In the early ’90s, few artists were connecting the dots between queer erasure and ecocide—but ANOHNI was. Four years after her first contribution to Atmos, the transdisciplinary artist reflects on her pioneering work in queer ecology, trans ferality, and moving beyond binary notions of nature.
Art & Culture
Earth Sounds
Dancing to the Beat of Her Drum
Photographer Juliette Cassidy captures TikTok sensation Lourdes Gutiérrez in some of her most cherished polleras in her hometown in southern Peru.
Photography
Identity & Community
Without Fear
As the ocean’s top predator, sharks are fearsome creatures. And yet—much like fear itself—they are deeply misunderstood.
The Overview
Deep Ecology
Speaking in Unison
The colonial gaze has long discounted oral tradition as primitive, writes Atmos columnist Ruth H. Robertson. But like the written word, oral tradition preserves knowledge, history, and the memory of an entire populace.
Indigeneity
Identity & Community
A Symphony of Evolution in the Nevada Desert
Every landscape on Earth contains traces of its past lives. With close attention, we can find in those faint notes the beginnings of a grand evolutionary song, one that sets the tune for all of life today.
Science & Nature
Pride Month 2023
Stories on love, acceptance, community and friendship
ALOK and Munroe Bergdorf on the Power of Trans Imagination
Who gets to determine another person’s reality? Alok Vaid-Menon has become a global leader in the trans and nonbinary liberation movement. Here, they speak with fellow luminary Munroe Bergdorf about the rise of fascism in the U.S. and U.K., the dangers of dictating what is natural, and the power of trans imagination.
Art & Culture
Identity & Community
Redefining Gender in the Amazon
As we celebrate Pride, The Frontline shares the work of Uýra Sodoma, an Indigenous nonbinary performance artist who is dedicated to saving the Brazilian Amazon.
The Frontline
Queer Ecology
Uprooting the Tree of Life
The image of the Tree of Life depicts a world neatly organized by lines of progress. But the living world is much more exciting: it’s a tangled network of relationships, both biological and chosen.
Science & Nature
Queer Ecology
Queering the Food System
A new generation of LGBTQIA+ farmers are tending the land through a lens of radical empathy and mutual respect by putting people and planet before profit.
Queer Ecology
Riley Black Reflects on the Power of Growth
Over 300 bills have been introduced just this year in an attempt to erase queer people, including a total ban of trans healthcare in, among other places, Texas. Atmos contributor Riley Black explores why planting seeds of hope is essential to the fight against bigotry.
Identity & Community
Queer Ecology
For Your Pleasure
Battling a grim future, the question becomes: how can we understand activism and social engagement not as separate from, but intertwined with pleasure?
The Overview
Queer Ecology
Full Spectrum: Honoring Queerness in Nature
For many queer people, nature is a place free of judgment and conformity, where diversity is celebrated and crucial to survival. Here, queer models weighed in on how queerness and nature connect—a reminder that there is nothing more natural than being who you are.
Art & Culture
Queer Ecology
Pride Month 2023
Stories on love, acceptance, community and friendship
ALOK and Munroe Bergdorf on the Power of Trans Imagination
Who gets to determine another person’s reality? Alok Vaid-Menon has become a global leader in the trans and nonbinary liberation movement. Here, they speak with fellow luminary Munroe Bergdorf about the rise of fascism in the U.S. and U.K., the dangers of dictating what is natural, and the power of trans imagination.
Art & Culture
Identity & Community
Redefining Gender in the Amazon
As we celebrate Pride, The Frontline shares the work of Uýra Sodoma, an Indigenous nonbinary performance artist who is dedicated to saving the Brazilian Amazon.
The Frontline
Queer Ecology
Uprooting the Tree of Life
The image of the Tree of Life depicts a world neatly organized by lines of progress. But the living world is much more exciting: it’s a tangled network of relationships, both biological and chosen.
Science & Nature
Queer Ecology
Queering the Food System
A new generation of LGBTQIA+ farmers are tending the land through a lens of radical empathy and mutual respect by putting people and planet before profit.
Queer Ecology
Riley Black Reflects on the Power of Growth
Over 300 bills have been introduced just this year in an attempt to erase queer people, including a total ban of trans healthcare in, among other places, Texas. Atmos contributor Riley Black explores why planting seeds of hope is essential to the fight against bigotry.
Identity & Community
Queer Ecology
For Your Pleasure
Battling a grim future, the question becomes: how can we understand activism and social engagement not as separate from, but intertwined with pleasure?
The Overview
Queer Ecology
Full Spectrum: Honoring Queerness in Nature
For many queer people, nature is a place free of judgment and conformity, where diversity is celebrated and crucial to survival. Here, queer models weighed in on how queerness and nature connect—a reminder that there is nothing more natural than being who you are.
Art & Culture
Queer Ecology
Tricia Hersey Wants Us All to Slow Down
Almost all animals on this planet require rest in some sense or another, including humans. The Nap Ministry founder and Rest Is Resistance author Tricia Hersey wants to know: why are we the only species that seems to refuse it?
Art & Culture
Changemakers
On the Nose
As humans, our sense of smell informs our memories, histories, and futures, playing a crucial role in how we perceive the world.
The Overview
Deep Ecology
Why Are We Still Putting Harmful Chemicals on Our Face?
News that the UK government is silently overturning a long-standing ban on animal testing for makeup ingredients has been met with outrage from activists. But the harmful effects of the beauty industry on our ecosystems are far more insidious.
Art & Culture
Well Being
Finding “Blissonance” Amid the California Superbloom
California’s historically wet winter has caused a rare superbloom event, but has also led to severe flooding. As climate change exacerbates weather conditions everywhere, how can we learn to honor beauty while confronting destruction?
Anthropocene
Deep Ecology
In Meghalaya, India, Ancient Forests and Cultures Intertwine
Photographer Bharat Sikka takes us to the trees of Meghalaya. There, he records a sylvan symphony of ancient forests and the cultures that they hold.
Photography
Science & Nature
What We Lose When We Lose Old-Growth Forests
Old-growth trees are living archives. At the Harvard Forest Tree Ring Lab, researchers are coaxing clues from these elders to our planet’s past—and possible future.
Science & Nature
Biodiversity
A Glimpse Inside the Research Station Working to Preserve Lowland Amazon Ecosystems
Photographer Christian Cassiel travels to the Ecuadorian Amazon to document the life-saving work of the station, which serves as a platform for the voices of the Amazon, in a series of intimate portraits.
Art & Culture
Science & Nature
The Great Work
Honeybees spend their lives in service of others, a powerful reminder of the value of community and working for a larger purpose.
The Overview
Deep Ecology
Life After Loss: The Still and Quieting Voice of Nature
I lost a friend to suicide in December last year, writes The Slow Grind’s Georgina Johnson. There isn’t one way to understand the complexities of such loss, but some can be explained. As can modes of healing and care—access to nature is one of them.
Well Being
Art & Culture
Making Music in a Warming World
Music is a powerful cultural force, but the current model of touring and streaming harms the Earth. How can music take real action on climate?
Anthropocene
Art & Culture
Saving the Monarch Butterfly Migration
Each fall, clouds of monarchs make their way from the U.S. and Canada down to Mexico, returning north when the weather warms. The beloved butterflies were recently listed as endangered, catalyzing a conservation network across North America.
Science & Nature
Keeping the Peace
Pigeons may be considered commonplace, but they are no less extraordinary.
The Overview
Deep Ecology
Dreaming of the Hudson: Asian Americans and the All-American Landscape
It is integral that we start viewing Asian American men as part of this country’s cultural and natural landscape, writes Arthur Tam. After all, this is home now.
Art & Culture
Identity & Community
The Way of the Birds: Celebrating Nigeria’s Biggest Carnival
At carnival, each band moves like a flock of birds. Outfitted in clothes from Nigerian designers or made from upcycled materials, these dancers and musicians transmit the rhythm of Calabar, home of Nigeria’s biggest carnival.
Identity & Community
Ethical Fashion
adrienne maree brown and Prentis Hemphill On Restoring Our Rhythm
What does it mean to rewild ourselves? Emergent Strategy and Pleasure Activism author adrienne maree brown and therapist and somatic healer Prentis Hemphill speak with Atmos about embodiment, the power of ease, and restoring our natural rhythm.
Well Being
Identity & Community
A Tender Glimpse Inside the Lives of Venezuelan Youth
As her home country grapples with crisis, photographer Silvana Trevale turns her lens on the nation’s children, many of whom are caught in a state of flux between playful naivety and rigid stoicism.
Photography
Art & Culture
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