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01/09/2025

NEWS DIGEST | Ghost farms

In southern Europe, groves and farms are being abandoned as maintenance costs surpass annual profits (Dr Peter Alexander, University of Edinburgh). Coordinated water storage and conservation projects are critical. As Water Zanre, CEO of Filippo Berio, explains:

‘There are many projects to try to conserve water and use it for irrigation. But in order to conserve water, first it has to rain. We have had winter rains this year, but in the previous three years it has been a virtual drought.’

For the first time in decades, Europe is not expected to see any increase in agricultural production over the next five years.

Despite the challenges, Stellios Boutaris, a wine producer in Greece remains determined: ‘There has got to be a way to do it and I want to show it can be done.’

Read the full article ‘We cannot do it the way our fathers did’: farmers across Europe struggle to adapt to the climate crisis by Sarah Butler for the . Link in bio 🔗

29/08/2025

OPPORTUNITY | Social Media Outreach Volunteer

Are you passionate about climate justice, digital media, and community-building? We’re looking for a Social Media Outreach Volunteer to help us grow our platforms, strengthen relationships with aligned organisations, and engage our online community.

📍 Remote | 6–8 hrs/week
We ask for a commitment of at least several months so you can really become part of the team.

🌍 What You’ll Do:

• Respond to comments and messages on Instagram, BlueSky, and TikTok
• Share stories and content that spark engagement across our platforms
• Support and interact with aligned artists, activists, and organisations
• Help grow our presence on BlueSky and TikTok with creative strategies
• Assist with planning our social media calendar and future campaigns
• Foster collaborations by reaching out to relevant organisations in advance
• Join one weekly Zoom meeting with our social media team

🌱 Who You Are:

• Passionate about systemic climate issues—not just quick fixes
• Skilled in social media engagement and relationship-building
• Comfortable with outreach and community support
• A self-starter who can work independently and bring fresh ideas

Bonus: Interest in TikTok trends, video content, or campaign planning

📌 How to Apply:

Send us a short note answering:
• Why do you want to join us?
• What aspect of climate change interests you most?
• Share an example of a campaign, post, or project that inspired you—and what you took from it.

📩 Email us at [email protected] with the subject line: Social Media Outreach Volunteer | Your Name

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We recognise the systemic barriers that exist in media and climate spaces, and while this is an unpaid volunteer role, we are committed to creating an inclusive, supportive environment.

We can’t wait to hear from you!

22/08/2025

NEWS DIGEST | Global plastics talks collapse

The sixth round of UN negotiations on a global plastics treaty has ended without agreement. Despite three years of work towards a legally binding deal to curb plastic pollution, oil-producing countries — including the US — rejected limits on new plastic production.

Critics say avoiding production caps is like ‘mopping the floor without turning off the tap’. Meanwhile, nearly a million tons of plastic waste continue to accumulate each month, much of it washing onto vulnerable island shores.

What comes next for the treaty remains uncertain. While two draft proposals were tabled, neither was adopted — though China signalled new openness to regulating plastics across their full lifecycle.

🔗 Read the full article via the link in bio. Written by Olivia Le Poidevin and Emma Farge for .

17/08/2025

WASTE PICKERS | Informal workers are the backbone of circularity

Waste pickers play a crucial role in urban recycling and climate mitigation by recovering materials that would otherwise be lost, saving significant energy and supporting circular systems. Despite this, many earn less than minimum wage, face health risks, and lack legal recognition.

BVRio supports waste pickers worldwide through fair income schemes, digital tools, and business support for cooperatives, fostering resilience and solidarity. This support also extends to artisanal fishers engaged in waste collection, who protect marine ecosystems while sustaining their livelihoods.

Waste picking and litter fishing are low-emission, community-driven climate actions carried out under challenging conditions. Supporting waste pickers means building inclusive systems that combine social justice with environmental regeneration.

13/08/2025

NEWS DIGEST | Could legal personhood help save the Great Barrier Reef?

Yirrganydji traditional owner Gary Singleton has spent more than 12 years patrolling the reef, as warming seas, sediment runoff, pollution and overfishing steadily erode its resilience.

With coral coverage at record lows, a growing legal movement known as the ‘rights of nature’ is asking: what if the reef had the same legal rights as a person?

From the Whanganui River in Aotearoa New Zealand to the Atrato River in Colombia, ecosystems around the world are being recognised as legal entities with the right to exist, thrive and continue their vital cycles. Could this model give the Great Barrier Reef a voice – and guardians to speak on its behalf?

Read the article via the link in bio, written by Rosamund Brennan for the .

07/08/2025

FEATURE | Becoming Ocean: a social conversation about the Ocean

The ocean is alive but slowly choking — plastic pollutes shores, coral reefs bleach, seafloors are destroyed by bottom trawling. Who is accountable for the health of the high seas beyond national jurisdiction?

Becoming Ocean explores urgent questions around ocean protection: how do we protect life below water? Who decides? And what role can culture play in shaping accountability?

Co-produced by TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary and Tara Ocean Foundation, in collaboration with Schmidt Ocean Institute, and presented at Villa Arson, Nice, the exhibition positions art as a catalyst for systemic ocean change.

More than 20 international artists take part through critical, documentary, sensory, poetic and speculative approaches. The exhibition is part of the programme for the Nice Biennial of Arts and the Ocean, produced within the wider framework of the United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), held in Nice from 9–13 June 2025.

Following the conference, Icarus Complex writer Linda Förster interviewed Lea D’Auriol, founder of Oceanic Global – a partner of the UN Ocean Decade – to explore what meaningful ocean protection looks like: how to move beyond symbolic commitments, how art reveals what data can’t, and what long-term stewardship requires.

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Becoming Ocean is on view:

📅 8 May–24 August 2025
📍 Villa Arson, Nice

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Featured artworks:

Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Ziggy and the Starfish (2016–2022)

Sonia Levy, We Marry You O Sea as a Sign of True and Perpetual Dominion (2023)

Diana Policarpo, Cigua Tales (2022) .policarpo

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What does real protection look like? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

03/08/2025

NEWS DIGEST | The hidden threat of ‘zombie’ fires

As the Arctic warms, wildfires aren’t just seasonal—they’re becoming year-round. So-called zombie fires smoulder underground through winter, hidden beneath the surface, only to reignite when conditions warm.

Fueled by dry peat and thawing permafrost, these fires pose a growing threat to global carbon cycles and public health.

‘They can burn for a long time at a very slow rate. We call them “zombie” because the fires continue burning during winter and re-emerge in the spring.’ says Patrick Louchouarn, Professor of Earth Sciences at The Ohio State University.

These fires are hard to detect, difficult to fight, and capable of travelling across continents through toxic smoke and particulate pollution.

As Louchouarn notes: “Wildfires are no longer a local problem... They could be hemispheric problems.”

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Read the article ‘The Tricky Problem of “Zombie” Fires’ via the link in bio 🔗

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth – Inside Climate News

02/08/2025

ARTICLE | Buildings That Breathe

What does it mean to truly listen to the land before building on it?

For architect Mona Doctor-Pingel, designing the SAIL Centre on the outskirts of Surat meant refusing to erase a marshy site—and instead transforming it into a water-harvesting, heat-buffering lotus pond.

Completed in 2024, the building challenges dominant ideas of ‘usable’ land and ‘efficient’ construction. With locally made bricks, passive cooling strategies, and minimal concrete, it offers a grounded, context-sensitive model for public architecture in a time of climate urgency.

‘The most practical solutions to making buildings sustainable are always a little bit messy – simple, but messy.’

Words by Rupal Rathore
Photography by Ishi Sitwala

Read the full story via the link in bio.

30/07/2025

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‘Through projects like The Silent Disaster, I have worked closely with nomadic communities in Eastern Ladakh to document the lived realities of climate change. My work also emphasizes the deep role of women as cultural anchors and seeks to build visual narratives that not only preserve but actively advocate for the communities I engage with.’

As a documentary photographer, Siddharth Behl’s practice is dedicated to exploring the profound interconnections between communities, cultural memory, and fragile ecosystems. He focuses on long-form visual narratives that illuminate the often-unseen resilience of people living at the frontlines of environmental and social change.

Read our February photo story The Silent Disaster via the link in bio 🔗

28/07/2025

GLACIAL TIME | Speculative Geologies

Melting ice is more than a symbol. It’s memory, rupture, water insecurity, and cultural loss.

Speculative tools help us feel these shifts. Through sound, augmented reality, and sensor-driven storytelling, they translate climate data into experiences—allowing us to sense what is vanishing and imagine how we might relate differently.

They are not predictions or fixes—but provocations. Cultural, scientific, poetic, and political tools that ask us to slow down, listen, and reframe our ecological relationships.

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Contributors:

Ugo Nanni is a glaciologist and seismologist who uses vibration sensors to listen to the inner movements of ice. His sonic tools make glacial change audible—translating seismic signals into sound to reveal what escapes the eye.

Justin Brice Guariglia is an American artist whose work explores the relationship between humans and the natural world.

Tega Brain is an Australian artist and environmental engineer whose work spans ecology, data, and infrastructure—crafting digital systems and speculative interventions that question how we engage with climate systems.

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What tools do we need to make sense of a changing planet?

24/07/2025

DOCUMENTARY | Until the River Breathes

Join us for the Cape Town premiere of Until the River Breathes, a new documentary produced by Icarus Complex. Set along South Africa’s Liesbeek River, the film traces the intersecting struggles for ecological preservation and Indigenous land rights, spotlighting the activists, cultural workers and spiritual guardians at the heart of the resistance.

The screening will be followed by a conversation with special guest speaker Dr Zach Bush.

🗓️ Tuesday, 29 July 2025 | 10.00 am – 1.00 pm
📍 Guga S’thebe, Cape Town, South Africa

Directed by Lucy Martens
Produced by Madeleine Bazil
Executive Producer Afsaneh Angelina Rafii
Edited by Clementine Malpas
Animation by Gordon Bakkes

Featuring Barry Ellman, Tony Elvin, Tauriq Jenkins, Tozamile Mnapu

Archival images courtesy of Barry Ellman
Special thanks to Dave Child

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