>"For decades, America gave China a vision of future prosperity. But today, America has mostly ceased to offer a model for China or anywhere else, leaving China’s leaders without a guide as they chart a course into a future filled with _...Read More_

>"They’re not cuddly, they don’t behave at all like us – yet they are sentient. Why fish belong in the moral community"

>"In seeking a means to heal our wounded planet, we should look to the painstaking, cautious craft of art conservation"

"In the early days of our third pandemic spring, as tempers frayed and the impatience to return to something resembling “normal” spiked ever higher, I spotted my niece’s icon in the row of tiny circles at the top of my Instagram feed. I’m _...Read More_

The gate that bars most modern, industrialized people from access to nonhuman realms has to be broken open.

"The opening of a park in the Veretyevo Art Manor near Moscow was among the most remarkable Russian architectural events in 2021. The new space near Dubna was designed by architect Alexander Brodsky. Strelka Mag asked Asya Zolnikova to walk _...Read More_

"Democracy itself will have to be reinvented in the age of planetary crises, the philosopher Achille Mbembe argues. We need a new generation of rights that do not depend on the nation-state."

"The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100 is a sprawling exhibition at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow’s premier contemporary art institution, that tackles the subject of climate change, looking speculatively _...Read More_

"One butcher left her home on a farm in upstate New York and traveled to the heart of Silicon Valley to find out."

"A series of botanical encounters in the rainforest, excerpted from Francis Hallé’s book “Atlas of Poetic Botany.”"

>"A conversation with reporter Lizzie Johnson about the aftermath of wildfires and the human cost of neglected infrastructure."

>"Nurturing new ways to visualize the planetary — the embeddedness and codependency of our species with others."

"For thousands of years, plants have been cultivated not only for economic reasons, but to serve magic, lure immortal beings, and for aesthetic pleasure."A few Egyptian tomb paintings show flowering plants that may have been pure _...Read More_