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An in-depth look at issues surrounding climate change.

26/04/2026

Climate anxiety is often dismissed as ‘panic’ or ‘hysteria’, or framed as something to manage, reduce, or silence. But what if it is not a problem to solve, but a response that points to the realities we are facing, and a starting point for hope and action?

In this new series, we share voices across climate, culture, and politics to explore how this response is lived, understood, and transformed.

In our first episode, we feature responses from documentary filmmaker Lucy Martens (). Drawing from her work with Indigenous communities, she reflects on how these experiences have shaped her understanding of ecological crisis and supported a deeper reconnection with nature.

Her perspective highlights the importance of relationships, knowledge systems, and ways of being that are often overlooked in dominant narratives. Here, climate anxiety becomes something that can be held and worked with, grounding hope in connection, care, and more reciprocal ways of relating to the more-than-human world.

More voices and perspectives to follow.

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26/04/2026

Climate anxiety is often dismissed as ‘panic’ or ‘hysteria’ — narratives that deflect from the systems driving crisis and discourage action.

In this new series, we speak with voices across climate, culture, and politics to explore how this response is lived, understood, and transformed.

Our first episode features Dr Phoebe O’Brien (), whose anti-imperial and anti-capitalist analysis situates ecological breakdown within broader systems of power. Her reflections move beyond the individual, tracing how climate anxiety is shaped by histories of extraction, inequality, and resistance.

Rather than something to suppress, anxiety becomes a signal of what is at stake — and what calls for response. The challenge is not to quiet it, but to stay with it, and to channel it into collective action, care, and new ways of relating.

More voices and perspectives to follow.

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23/02/2026

Who’s behind Icarus Complex? 👀 Introducing the people shaping our work:

Afsaneh 💭 the mind behind Icarus Complex and editor-in-chief

Maddy 📷 producing ethical, participatory photo + video stories

Linda 🔍 researcher + writer across campaigns, interviews and articles

Yatou 🖇️ digital editor supporting nuanced climate storytelling

Dorka ✏️ managing social media + design, translating research into accessible content

Shout-out to our print art director Sérgio () 🗞️

Icarus Complex is built collectively. We’re deeply grateful to work alongside such an inspiring team, and to our incredible volunteers who help hold this project together: Christina, Melina, Audrey, Sophia and Vir.

Find out more about us, our work, and how to get involved via the link in bio 🔗

20/02/2026

Listening Ecologies & Politics of Sound

What happens when we treat sound as climate knowledge rather than background? From the persistent hum of petrochemical infrastructures to the uneven distribution of noise across communities and species, sonic environments reveal how power, extraction, and care are organised. Listening becomes a way to notice what dominant narratives often leave out.

Artist and researcher Yuri Tuma (), co-founder of the Institute for Postnatural Studies (), explores post-nature, q***r ecologies, and the idea of the ‘Phonocene’ — where the consequences of human activity can be heard as much as seen. Their work asks what it means to listen as a political and relational practice.

Interview by Christina Zampoulaki (.zampoulaki) for Icarus Complex. The full interview will be available to listen to online soon 👂🏼

What could an era of active listening be?

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Footage credits:

James Veitch () — Siri vs Alexa;
Believe music video by Cher

From the Institute for Postnatural Studies:

Active Hydro-Listening Workshop for Manifesta 15;
Sound recording during Cetácea Residency by Sin Destino Aparente

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The Institute for Postnatural Studies is hosting a new round of online seminars on post-nature and water ecologies starting mid-April.
***recology

28/01/2026

ZERO EMISSIONS DAY | Flying vs. Trains

Across Europe, flights can be up to 30 times cheaper than trains. On the surface it seems convenient — but the price we pay goes far beyond the ticket.

Government subsidies, unaccounted environmental costs, and uneven investment in transport all favour airlines, while trains, a low-carbon alternative, remain slower, underfunded, and costly.

Check out our previous explainer on airline subsidies for more context on how public support and hidden costs keep flights artificially cheap, shifting responsibility and costs onto passengers and the planet ✈️🌏

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Footage + screenshots: , ,

More info via link in bio 🔗

02/01/2026

🌐 Planet Poster Awards 2025 finalist Giancarlo Piccinno (), an illustrator based in Milan, reflects on the idea behind his poster ‘Scale Down Baby’.

Inspired by Alice in Wonderland, the work reimagines the moment of sudden growth — but with a twist. Here, the cookies are ‘aware’, questioning the logic of endless expansion. Growth without limits, the poster suggests, is not just unsustainable but actively harmful — to individuals, communities, and surrounding ecosystems.

The piece invites us to rethink scale, restraint, and responsibility in a world shaped by excess.

🗞️ Discover the Planet Poster Awards finalists in Icarus Complex Issue 7 — out now!

26/12/2025

AIRLINE SUBSIDIES | The True Cost of ‘Carbon-Neutral’ Flights

As the holiday season ramps up, booking a flight often comes with a familiar prompt: ‘add a small fee to make your journey carbon neutral’. It feels like an easy fix — but it hides a deeper problem.

So-called voluntary offsets can end up covering costs airlines already face under carbon schemes like the EU ETS and CORSIA. Many offset projects fail to deliver real, lasting climate cuts, yet airlines still benefit from a greener image while expanding routes and emissions.

What looks like climate action often works as a hidden subsidy — shifting responsibility from industry to passengers.

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Footage + screenshots: The Guardian , Senken, Carbon Market Watch .

View sources via the links in bio 🔗

10/12/2025

NEWS DIGEST | Sumatra Floods

Deadly floods have struck Aceh and North and West Sumatra, fuelled by extreme rain and years of forest loss that stripped hillsides of their natural defences. Rivers became ‘conveyor belts’ of timber, whole villages were swept away, and thousands remain missing.

Officials are now investigating upstream logging and land-clearance as more than 12 companies come under scrutiny.

Communities, wildlife and vital watersheds face long recovery ahead — a stark reminder that climate-driven storms become catastrophic when ecosystems are already weakened.

Read more + support via the links in bio 🔗

05/12/2025

ERODING FRONTLINES | From Coast to the Sahel

Coastal soils from Saint-Louis to Keta are disappearing at one of the fastest rates globally — reshaping livelihoods, food systems, and the stability of entire communities. Inland, soils across the Sahel are also weakening as drought, heat + poor water allocation harden farmland and disrupt cropping cycles.

As storms intensify, sand mining expands + dams trap sediment, the ground that once buffered cities, farms + wetlands is breaking apart. Erosion and soil loss are driving displacement, damaging homes, roads + freshwater sources, and accelerating saltwater intrusion that cuts harvests and threatens food security.

Protecting soil is social, cultural + political — tied to land rights, adaptation finance and the uneven impacts of extractive development.

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