​​​​​​​Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder​​​

In Nautilus Magazine : Saving the seas may depend on connecting people to hidden landscapes. https://nautil.us/finding-a-sense-of-place-i...

In The Atlantic : A single-celled organism helped shift my perspective on climate change—and on my child’s future....

In Terrain.org : An excerpt from Mother, Creature, Kin https://www.terrain.org/2025/nonfiction/a-community-of-trees/

Published in Issue 1 of From the Ground Up. "Imagine with me: what if we offered the places where we live an unflinching, unfailing,...

On the wind-sculpted dunes of Nebraska’s Sandhills, I consider the collision of prophecies that occurred over the Great Plains in the...

As my daughter learns to speak, I meditate on how to listen for a language of mothering that is in service to all of life’s beings....

Applied Alchemy A profile of Lead2Life. Extracted iron ore can be forged into a weapon. A gun can be melted into a shovel that is used to...

When a marble mine began to strip a village of its forests, the people of Piplantri, India, developed a tree-planting project that...

Right now, around the world, trees are on the move. Read at Emergence Magazine: They Carry Us with Them: The Great Tree Migration

A collision of values unfolds on the summit of Mauna Kea, the proposed site for the largest telescope in the world. Read at Emergence...

As the existence of the famed ivory-billed woodpecker is increasingly left to the realm of myth, I explore the widespread disappearance...

On bringing new life into the world at a time of climate crisis and pandemic. Read at Emergence Magazine: Part I: "New Life in Spring"...

Sea monsters have long roamed the dark waters of legends, embodiments of a wild and chaotic power. Read at Emergence Magazine: The Great...

A Journey Through Time and Place in Nebraska & South Dakota Read at Emergence Magazine: Wild Fire, Flat Water

Mapping the rings of a pin oak tree across the galaxy. A collaboration with artist Katie Holten. View at Emergence Magazine: Time to a...