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A View from a White Pine Tree

Forest fires are a big problem – the smell of woodsmoke is overwhelming at the moment. I’ve had enough of others speaking for me. But...

The Carnivore of Eden

The Green Swamp Preserve is a harsh environment where survival requires extreme evolutionary adaptations. Here, even the plants are carnivorous. To enter this sacred place...

From the Desk of Seldom Seen Smith

Canyon country. Southwestern United States. Lights out in Moab at midnight. A transformer has blown. Illuminated by dawn, it remains as ochre and aflame as...

The Wylld

What happened was, well, a tree, Douglas fir to be exact, grew up through the middle of Buck’s living room. Lives down on the corner,...

Six Hours in San Juan

“Sneakers, sneakers. Come on. It’s gonna be a day of walking.” Moans and groans from the boys. Andy is wearing those horrible Adidas slippers he...

Service No Service

“Listen,” says K. “Not even the radio’s working.” Blips of static as her fingertips spin the dial. The low hum of our tires on the hardball....

An Hour at the Salon

Ash falls on your shoulders as you walk towards a salon for a manicure. You see the smoke. The air smells like your grandfather’s ashtray....

What I Thought I Had

My father’s property sat at the end of the newly cut Dream Farm Road—a steep rutted track through uncut forest, bordered by the Point Reyes...

Panama for Indoor Cats

Editing this issue of Panorama has been unexpected. One, I’m rather infamous among friends and the travel writing community for my dislike of nature. It’s...

Remarkable Trees: Biodiversity & Economic Botany

Following the UN’s International Day of the Forest on the 21st March, Julia Knights spoke to Tony Kirkham, one of the world’s leading experts on trees to learn more about...

Juma

In the last days of December 2006, news that gold had been found in the Juma basin quickly spread throughout the Amazon, attracting men and...

Isolation in Iceland

Iceland in winter is the closest one can get to living in eternal night. This country is extraterrestrial; a stretch of solar landscape, rock formations,...

Ancient America’s Corn Corridor

‘Looks like it’s broken,’ he said pointing to the two holes in the ground. We were having dinner with Benito Treviño and his wife Toni at...

Waves and Whalesong

‘Intertidal is the part of the shoreline that appears during low tide and is hidden during high tide. In some places it is thin, in...

Issue 11: Ecology

Welcome to Panorama’s 11th edition. In this issue we turn our attention to ecology—from the word’s earliest roots to present-day ecologies which span people, organisms,...

Twenty Dollars Fake American, A Foreign Drama

We’re in the back office of a Peruvian lockup, two miles from the border of Ecuador, and I’m pleading with the sergeant in his pressed...

Cradle Dreaming

There wasn’t much sunlight filtering in but the place still felt like the inside of a cathedral—not only the soaring ceilings and brilliant colours like...

Watershed

A few years ago, during the Trump administration, I took a job as the doctor at a country music festival. It wasn’t the cast of...

Doll's Eye

Wet dawn. The wind moaned. White lightning hooked itself violently into the land. Overnight, the sky had cracked open entirely, rain spilling like grey ink...

The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity

We estimate there to be some 8.7 million species globally. For plants, we believe around 2 in 5 species are at risk of extinction –...