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A personal essay contrasts Ireland's deforested, flattened mountains with the wilder peaks of Asturias, Spain, where bears and wolves still roam. The author draws on historical resistance in the region and references James Scott's 'The Art of Not Being Governed' to argue that mountainous terrain has long resisted state surveillance and governance.
A biodiversity research team organized by the China Association for Scientific Expedition brought DEEP Robotics' Lynx M20S quadruped robot on a trip into China's Ailaoshan Mountains, according to the Global Times. The robot carried field and imaging equipment and helped with route scouting, image recording, and data collection, including footage of a rare parasitic plant and forest gibbons.
A Past Lives episode reconstructs the story of Asana, a young Scythian priestess whose mummified remains, known as the Siberian Ice Maiden, were found preserved in the Altai Mountains permafrost. The narrative imagines her final days, tracing how illness, a riding accident and her role as a spiritual diviner led her to the high plateau where she died roughly 2,500 years ago. The piece situates her individual story within the broader Scythian nomadic world of the Eurasian steppe.