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An in-depth look at issues surrounding climate change.

26/10/2025

China vs the Dollar: The Yuan’s Green Shift

China is shifting away from the US dollar. While the dollar’s value has dropped this year, the yuan has become stronger as China tightens controls on its economy.

Chinese companies have also pledged more than USD 227 billion to build green industries overseas since 2022 — from solar panels to electric vehicles.

By using the yuan instead of the dollar, China hopes to protect its exporters from currency swings, avoid some sanctions, and make it cheaper to fund clean energy projects.

Still, the dollar remains dominant. It makes up nearly 60% of global currency reserves and is used for most international payments.

The question is not just who leads — but whether this economic shift could make climate finance more independent and fairer worldwide.

Links in bio to know more.

22/10/2025

NEWS DIGEST | Criminalising Climate Action

UN expert Mary Lawlor warns that governments claiming climate leadership are instead silencing activists. Her report Tipping Points documents hundreds of reprisals against peaceful climate defenders.

Even countries praised for human rights — the UK, Germany, France and the US — use police violence, surveillance, and restrictive laws to curb dissent. From Vietnam to Kenya, even green transitions face repression.

Lawlor reminds us: climate activists are human rights defenders, protecting food, water, and the environment. Systemic change means ending laws that criminalise protest and holding states and corporations accountable.

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18/10/2025

From North Dakota to Europe, Greenpeace keeps on fighting.

In 2017, Energy Transfer (the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline) sued Greenpeace for supporting protests at Standing Rock. In March 2025, a North Dakota jury hit them with $667 million in damages.

Greenpeace calls this a SLAPP, a lawsuit meant to intimidate and silence public participation, protest, and activism. They’ve asked the court to throw out the excessive verdict, while also taking the fight to Europe under the EU’s new anti-SLAPP law, which is the first of its kind!

Both cases are still pending, but the outcomes could set powerful precedents for activists everywhere.

Want to know more? We spoke with Greenpeace’s Senior Legal Counsel Daniel Simons about what this means for free speech. Read the full interview on our website ➡️ Link in bio 🔗

14/10/2025

RESISTANCE

Produced in collaboration between Icarus Complex Magazine and the Indigenous-led organisation If Not Us Then Who?, this story marks the 20th anniversary of the Free Land Camp (ATL) – Brazil’s largest Indigenous gathering.

Through Joel Redman’s colour photography, Jaye Renold’s film, and Genilson Guajajara’s black & white photographs, RESISTANCE captures the power, mourning and hope that define this movement.

As communities confront the enduring legacies of colonisation and the renewed threat of Marco Temporal, their presence in Brasília becomes both a political act and a spiritual statement – one rooted in ancestral knowledge, collective struggle, and the defence of land and life.

‘When I close my eyes and hear the Tenetehar chants, my spirit is taken to another dimension. The great shamans that have ancestralised, come in the winds, from the waters and the earth, and are present in this supernatural environment.’ – Genilson Guajajara

Photographs by Genilson Guajajara are featured in Icarus Complex Issue 6, available for purchase via our website.

Read the full article RESISTANCE online via the link in bio.

13/10/2025

NEWS DIGEST | Global renewable energy generation surpassed coal for the first time in the first half of 2025 — a milestone marking the acceleration of the world’s shift away from fossil fuels.

According to climate think tank Ember, solar power grew by nearly a third and wind by over 7% compared to the same period in 2024, together meeting 83% of global demand growth.

China led the expansion, adding more renewable capacity than the rest of the world combined, while India’s clean energy growth outpaced electricity demand more than threefold.

By contrast, coal and gas generation rose in the US and EU due to slower renewable rollout, weather impacts, and rising demand.

Read the full article by Jillian Ambrose for the via link in bio.

11/10/2025

To connect a girl is to secure the future. To connect every girl is to change the world.

Across the globe, the rising tides of inequality and climate change are washing away millions of girls’ dreams. Climate shocks are forcing families to flee, destroying schools and pushing girls out of classrooms. In 2024 alone, 242 million children had their education disrupted by extreme weather. Four in five people displaced by climate impacts are women and girls.

Right now, 122 million girls remain out of school. In low- and middle-income countries, girls are 25% less likely than boys to access the internet. Without digital access, a girl cannot continue her education remotely, learn about climate adaptation or gain the skills she’ll need in the economies of tomorrow.

Connectivity is more than a cable or a device – it is a bridge to safety, stability and self-determination. When you connect a girl, you connect a community.

Illustrated by Cécile Cuny
Footage courtesy of Evoca Foundation .foundation and Giga

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09/10/2025

PHOTO STORY | Vanishing Villages

High in the Indian Himalayas, villages are emptying — remaining in one’s village has become almost impossible to sustain.

In his conversations, the street photography known pseudonymously as FaceHunter, listened to people’s mixed feelings about leaving: there is hope for what’s next, but also pain and a sense of loss for a way of life.

Through portraits and conversations, this story captures the resilience and heartbreak of those left behind — and asks what it would take to make mountain life possible and desireable again.

Words by Yvan Rodic and Lukas Brunner — photos by FaceHunter.

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07/10/2025

DOCUMENTARY | Silent Forests explores the far-reaching impacts of industrial timber plantations in Mpumalanga, South Africa – more than 400,000 hectares of alien trees designed for export, displacing local people and causing ecological degradation.

The film follows the work of GeaSphere, an NGO combatting biodiversity loss and protecting this bioregion through community involvement, education and sustainable practices.

But monocultures are not just a local problem: 80% of the world’s arable land is dominated by vast monocultures, one of the largest causes of global environmental change.

Weaving together key voices, landscapes and archival materials, Silent Forests paints a dynamic picture of the knock-on effects of monocultures on ecosystems and communities in Mpumalanga and worldwide – and how the struggle to preserve biodiversity continues.

Stream now via the link in bio 🔗

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Special thanks to
December Ndlovu, Ratanang Project, Philip Owen, Geo Sphere .biome

Director, Camera, Editor
Lucy Martens

Producer
Shanti Naidoo-Page
Madeleine Bazil

Executive producer
Afsaneh A. Rafii

Researcher
Linda Förster

Music
Yehezkel Raz
DaniHaDani

03/10/2025

ARTICLE | Tahreeb and the Endurance of Sudan’s Desert Merchants

From the souqs of Cairo to Wad Medani, Sudanese merchants like Mory continue to navigate conflict, restrictions, and arduous desert routes to sustain their livelihoods.

As the war in Sudan enters its third year, formal travel across the Egyptian border has become prohibitively expensive if not entirely restricted. Many merchants now rely on Al Tahreeb—clandestine journeys across the desert—risking everything to provide for their families and communities. Curator Rahiem Shadad & journalist Kang-Chun Cheng trace Mory’s journey, illustrating how he uses photography to process the war.

From the vibrancy of the evolving textile trade, the heaviness of the long tahreeb journey, to the intimacy of family memories, Mory’s photography sheds light on the many ways people cope with the unbearable costs of conflict.

Full story via link in bio.

02/10/2025

Honouring Dame Jane Goodall
1934–2025

Dr. Jane Goodall’s groundbreaking work as an ethologist, conservationist, and activist transformed how we understand and care for the natural world.

Her observations of chimpanzees at Gombe reshaped science, showing that tool use and complex social behaviours are not uniquely human, while her empathetic, ethical approach brought a new humanity to research.

In 1991, she founded Roots & Shoots, a global youth programme empowering young people to take action for people, animals, and the environment through hands-on projects, leadership development, and compassionate decision-making. With thousands of groups in over 65 countries, Roots & Shoots embodies her vision of fostering a generation that acts locally and thinks globally.

Her life was a call to notice, care, and act: from protecting habitats to advocating for biodiversity, climate solutions, and systemic change, Jane’s legacy inspires action for a more compassionate world.

Learn more via Jane Goodall Institute and Roots & Shoots.

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