Words That Fail Us

Mitzi Jonelle Tan is a spokesperson of Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines. She explains why language matters and how it has been used at the UN Climate summit to delay action on the climate crisis. She challenges world leaders to step up - the COP27 agreement cannot be just another text that hinders progress and blocks climate justice.
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Food Forests for a Resilient Future

Across the world, agricultural food systems are collapsing under the impact of climate breakdown and diversity loss. Yasmin Dahnoun discovers two projects in Central America using agroforestry to combat deforestation and the impact of monocultures - returning life to the land and enabling local people to grow crops again.
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Uniting Mind, Matter and Life

Alfredo Erlwein-Vicuña considers the theory of autopoiesis which defined life as a system of interactions. In response Fritjof Capra claimed, "for the first time, we have a scientific theory that unifies mind, matter and life." The theory of autopoiesis redefines life, language and knowing, providing a portal to a radical shift in the understanding of life, as relevant today as it was 50 years.
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As I Roved Out

Singer and collector of songs Sam Lee shares his thoughts on folk songs which are to him both map and compass - guiding journeys through many landscapes, on a quest to reclaim a sense of wildness. He invites us all to "Find your folk song and invent your ritual to adorn it," and in doing so create new ways to nurture a love of Nature.
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Lost for Words

Just as humans are annihilating the diversity of life across the planet, languages are also being destroyed - every two weeks, the last fluent speaker of a language dies. In the introduction to our special feature on language, Paula Zamorano Osorio explains why if we lose biodiversity, we lose human diversity, and vice versa, and why standing up for Indigenous rights has never been more important.
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Speaking Nature's Language

Stephanie Boxall discovers 'living-language-land' - a project using native language to share insights into how people from different cultures connect with Nature. Co-founder Neville Gabie explains, "The project was a profound lesson in the joy of listening. It's not until you open yourself up to the experience and knowledge of other voices that you can begin to make that journey of empathy."
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