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March 3 is World Wildlife Day. Our December 2025 story on the Saura tribes of eastern India aligns with this year’s theme — “Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: Conserving Health, Heritage and Livelihoods.”
An unscientific relocation severed their reliance on forest herbs, used to treat ailments.
Today, multiple news outlets reported that the U.S. and Mideast countries are seeking Ukraine's drone expertise in the Iran war.
However, not all Ukrainian drones are built to kill or counter other drones. Some have been used to identify landmines across the country's cities, roads, and farmland:
It’s estimated that it would take roughly 700 years to demine Ukraine, with each year of war adding another decade to clean up the aftermath.
But residents of the breadbasket of Europe are not waiting for foreign aid to save them. They are taking matters into their own hands:
Today, millions of Nepalis are heading to the polls for the first time since September's Gen-Z uprising.
The new cabinet will grapple with the long-term health effects of past indiscriminate use of chemical weapons by the previous administration and smoke from buildings burned down by protesters:
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ICYMI: In this week's World Wildlife Day edition of our newsletter, Managing Editor Laasya Shekhar shares why wildlife stories have always felt personal.
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It’s estimated that it would take roughly 700 years to demine Ukraine, with each year of war adding another decade to clean up the aftermath.
But residents of the breadbasket of Europe are not waiting for foreign aid to save them. They are taking matters into their own hands:
Here's @thexylom.com's full database, which contains information compiled from publicly available USCIS documents and a few other sources.
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According to a first-in-the-nation, exclusive database I built for @thexylom.com, Florida's top public research universities hired 375 H-1B skilled workers in the first nine months of the previous fiscal year.
This is going to be an abject disaster for Florida's higher education innovation:
ICYMI: In this week's World Wildlife Day edition of our newsletter, Managing Editor Laasya Shekhar shares why wildlife stories have always felt personal.
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I also happen to be one of the only reporters on earth to have extensively reported about Ingleside on the Bay, a small town on Corpus Christi Bay that is America's answer to the Strait of Hormuz.
Global fossil fuel export supply chains are incredibly fragile and dirty:
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NEW: Ukrainian deminers are deploying drones to clear the remnants of Russia's full-scale invasion — protecting communities and reclaiming land.
This dispatch by our Editor-at-Large Kang-Chun Cheng @kcchengphoto.bsky.social is produced by @icaruscomplexmag.bsky.social and co-published by The Xylom.
March 3 is World Wildlife Day. Our December 2025 story on the Saura tribes of eastern India aligns with this year’s theme — “Medicinal and Aromatic Plants: Conserving Health, Heritage and Livelihoods.”
An unscientific relocation severed their reliance on forest herbs, used to treat ailments.
badass, mine removal is so important
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We literally published a dispatch from eastern Ukraine this morning with @icaruscomplexmag.bsky.social:
This week, @insideclimatenews.org reported that a bill that would make Virginia the first U.S. state to ban paraquat was killed with little fanfare.
In October, we reported on just how dangerous paraquat is for Nigerian farmers, and how eliminating its use cannot happen without U.S. leadership:
Published a new piece on the impacts of war and war machines on communities and the climate!
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This is one of the stories that resulted from @kcchengphoto.bsky.social's second assignment to Ukraine, this time on the eastern frontlines near Kharkiv.
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NEW: Ukrainian deminers are deploying drones to clear the remnants of Russia's full-scale invasion — protecting communities and reclaiming land.
This dispatch by our Editor-at-Large Kang-Chun Cheng @kcchengphoto.bsky.social is produced by @icaruscomplexmag.bsky.social and co-published by The Xylom.
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Tortoise beetles are a striking example of zero-waste design in nature.
Here is a bizarre fact: Leaf-eating tortoise beetles convert plant energy into animal protein & build shields from their own faeces.
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“So my brother woke up feeling hungover the next day, he felt stiff,” describes Will Sonbuchner, host of Best Ever Food Review Show, to a giggling and dazed Joe Rogan.
“So your next question might be, ‘why the fuck do people wanna take this?’ I don’t know. I couldn’t figure it out.”