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Rafiqul Montu

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Stories from the ground — Environment, Climate, Science, Coastal Communities, Public Health, Tech etc. Multi award winning independent investigative journalist & the pioneer of coastal journalism.

🇧🇩 Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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An instagram influencer posted images of her life in Dubai but in doing so, inadvertently revealed details about the whereabouts of her husband, an alleged Bosnian cartel member. Our latest guide explains how we located them. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
Exploring the Skyline: How we Located an Alleged Cartel Member in Dubai - bellingcatwww.bellingcat.com How we used features of the skyline to narrow down the whereabouts of an alleged cartel member in the UAE.
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Scientists have long thought that horseshoe crabs only spawn on beaches. Now, new research shows that salt marshes also make good habitat—a discovery with important implications for these economically important species. 🐎👟🦀 By Lydia Larsen hakaimagazine.com/news/horsesh...
Horseshoe Crabs Have Been Hiding Out in the Marsh | Hakai Magazinehakaimagazine.com Scientists know so much, and yet so little.
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"This little driftfish immediately caught my eye with its cunning use of a gelatinous invertebrate for cover. I quickly snapped a photo of the fish, which looked a bit like a UFO pilot navigating the otherworldly depths." By Michael Patrick O'Neill. hakaimagazine.com/videos-visua...
One Great Shot: Are You Ready for This, Jelly? | Hakai Magazinehakaimagazine.com During a nighttime dive, a veteran underwater photographer captured a tiny fish’s cunning effort to find a safe spot in a dark sea.
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A social media network has emerged as sailors find themselves unwittingly involved in the shadow fleet—clandestine tankers that smuggle oil for Russia or Iran. For seafarers, it's become a way to avoid helping the other side of a war. By Nathaniel Peutherer. hakaimagazine.com/news/the-ene...
The Enemy in the Job Board | Hakai Magazinehakaimagazine.com Ukraine’s contract seafarers are turning to online whisper networks to keep themselves from being hired into Russia’s sanction-busting, oil-smuggling shadow fleet.
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When a shark is born prematurely, salt water is toxic to its tiny body. A preemie baby shark can’t its regulate the salt levels and often die, so researchers in Japan built an artificial uterus to simulate a mother shark’s womb. By Claudia Geib. hakaimagazine.com/news/scienti...
Scientists Built an Artificial Shark Uterus | Hakai Magazinehakaimagazine.com Preemie sharks that would otherwise die get by with a little help from a human-made womb.
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Over the past century, barred owls have swooped across North America, inspiring wonder, admiration, and fear about the future of other owls. Their story is complicated, as are the labels people attach to them. 🦉 By @judeisabella.bsky.social hakaimagazine.com/features/the...
The Owls Who Came From Away | Hakai Magazinehakaimagazine.com Over the past 80 years, one of the most resilient and hearty owls has practically engulfed a continent. Not everyone is pleased.
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Since 1977, scientists had only identified 77 whale falls across the world’s oceans, but a recent effort uncovered a startling density of them off the coast of Los Angeles, California. 🐋🦴🔍 By @dmain.bsky.social. hakaimagazine.com/news/more-wh...
More Whale Falls Found off Los Angeles than in the Rest of the World Combined | Hakai Magazinehakaimagazine.com A mysterious discovery reveals how little we know about the deep ocean.
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Happy 4th of July to our American readers! Throwing back to this story about tracking the travels of bald eagles. 🦅 By Isabelle Groc. hakaimagazine.com/news/young-b...
Young Bald Eagles Live Life in the Fast Lane | Hakai Magazinehakaimagazine.com Older eagles prefer to take it easy.
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It is up to American voters to hold Trump accountable on November 5. It's particularly incumbent on minorities, including Jewish Americans, who would likely be the target of Trump-emboldened extremists, to defend our democracy www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...
Opinion | Biden vs. Trump is a simple choice for American Jews: Democracy or Dictatorshipwww.haaretz.com ***
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These graphics speak volumes about Reform support.👇 It's highest in areas that voted for Brexit, and now comes second in a raft of seats across England (and Wales).
Four Reform seats is four too many. But to be second in so many is particularly worrying. No one should be complacent. #UKGE2024 3/3
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🚨📢JOB ALERT📢🚨 The Las Vegas Review-Journal is hiring an investigative reporter to produce government accountability investigations. www.ire.org/job-center/i...
Investigative reporter - Investigative Reporters & Editorswww.ire.org
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Under all the math and engineering involved in this "advanced" plastic recycling process, my colleague @lisalsong.bsky.social found an inconvenient truth: Not much is being recycled at all, nor is pyrolysis capable of curbing the plastic crisis. Not now. Maybe not ever.
The Delusion of “Advanced” Plastic Recyclingwww.propublica.org The plastics industry has heralded a type of chemical recycling it claims could replace new shopping bags and candy wrappers with old ones — but not much is being recycled at all, and this method won’...
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I assume you've explored the ACA and Medicaid and haven't found a solution that works for you. FWIW, some of the most common migraine meds—triptans—are fairly affordable out of pocket ($10–20), so if you got a prescription, you could likely order them for a modest cost online to see if they help
Which migraine medications are most helpful? - Harvard Healthwww.health.harvard.edu Many medications claim to relieve migraine pain, but some are more helpful than others. In a large study looking at real-world data on 25 drugs, migraine sufferers rated the most and least h...
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Alberto, the first named tropical storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, made landfall near Tampico, Mexico, on Thursday morning. The sprawling storm has unleashed strong winds and heavy rainfall in both northeast Mexico and Texas while producing a significant ocean surge.
Alberto makes landfall in Mexico while flooding parts of Texas coastwww.washingtonpost.com The storm will continue to bring impacts to Texas through Thursday afternoon, while significant flooding is possible in Mexico.
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In our new Bellingchat Premium episode, Bellingcat's Pooja Chaudhuri chats about her latest piece investigating Hindu Nationalist websites, the mainstreaming of Hindu Nationalism in India and the results of the recent general election. www.patreon.com/posts/invest...
Investigating Hindu Nationalist Websites in India | Bellingcatwww.patreon.com Get more from Bellingcat on Patreon
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