How Present I Am: three perspectives on neurodiversity, creative work and ecology
Neurodiversity adheres neither to a single definition, nor a uniform experience. In this taster from our new issue, Elspeth Wilson describes how her nature writing and creative work intersect with both her sensory needs, and the environment around her, and speaks to Jane Burn, poet and illustrator, and Tzipporah Johnston, embroiderer and visual artist, about their own experiences. Edited by Zainab Mahmood.
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Once a staple of the Ukrainian landscape, Carpathian water buffalo populations in southern Europe dwindled over the last century. In this final instalment of our second season of audio shorts, Kitty Horlick tracks down Michel Jacobi - a self-sustaining farmer coaxing the species back to life - to find out more about his extraordinary vision.
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The Sounds of the Climate EmergencyField recordings are atmospheric conditions in which to create an album – but they’re also being used to understand the world around us a little better. Gail Tasker looks into efforts to catalogue the sounds of our changing planet. She finds works that tell ancient stories, uncover geographical mysteries and record the drivers of the climate crisis. Edited by Katie Urquhart.
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Climate of Anxiety‘Climate anxiety’ is often used to describe horror at the environmental catastrophe we are living through. But what does it really mean to live through a crisis of such head- spinning, far-reaching and all-consuming proportions? Clayton Page Aldern digs deeper into the neuroscience as he seeks to understand emotional and physical responses to the climate crisis.
Edited by Alice Skinner and Eleanor Leydon. Illustrated by Byun Younggeun. This article was commissioned and funded in collaboration with Wellcome Collection's Stories.By Clayton Page AldernKeep reading