Deforestation, Data Gaps, and Small Farmers: Mapping the True Costs of Mexico’s Palm Oil
As plantations push into forests and reserves, this investigation of Mexico’s palm oil boom—spanning supermarket shelves, satellite maps, and rural ...
Tag: Deforestation
Bombed, Poisoned, and Ignored: Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of South Lebanon
South Lebanon is being ethnically cleansed and ecologically destroyed. A documented, live-streamed erasure met with global silence
The Battle to Preserve the Last Wild River of the Alps – A Photo Story
Italy’s Tagliamento, Europe’s last free-flowing Alpine river, stands at the centre of a struggle between mega flood-control infrastructure and the ...
From Tanzanian Farms to Trendy Cafés: The Unequal Cost of Coffee – A Photo Story
As coffee sells for luxury prices abroad, Tanzanian women harvest it for $3 a day—inside an industry shaped by colonial ...
“No More Fish to Catch”: A Kenyan Island’s Fight Against Plastic Pollution and the Burden of Colonialism
Mega-projects, plastic waste, and shrinking fish stocks are reshaping Lamu Island, exposing the environmental and social costs of East Africa’s ...
Whose Forests? Jenu Kuruba Tribes Fight for Ancestral Land and Forest Rights in India
Karnataka’s indigenous forest dwellers face state crackdowns. Their struggle reveals how India’s conservation model erases the very communities who safeguard ...
Silicon Pampa: How Milei’s Techno-Libertarian Dream Turns Argentina into a Data Colony for AI and Lithium
Milei’s ‘digital revolution’ turns Argentina into a playground for Big Tech and Big Mining at the expense of its people ...
The battle for Tunisia’s water, soil and forests: Local solutions for climate resilience
Small farmers in Tunisia are reclaiming the land and —using agroforestry as a tool of resistance against climate change and ...
Cement eats the trees. A review of green spaces and their per capita share in Baghdad
Spatial distribution of green space in the Iraqi capital is very limited to some areas and not all the citizens ...
Syria’s forests are vanishing
Across Syria, natural forests are vanishing at an alarming rate. Fueled by seasonal wildfires and unregulated logging, a seemingly endless ...
A journey through SWANA’s tapestry of forests: a vital ecosystem under threat
These forests are not just repositories of biodiversity; they are cultural treasures, economic lifelines, and ecological cornerstones
