The Countdown to Iran’s Day Zero: A Crisis of Water, Not War
While the world debates bombs and sanctions, Iran is quietly running out of water—its land cracked, lakes vanished, and millions ...
Tag: Environment
Photo Story – Harvesting profit, displacing lives: The true cost of cheap vegetables
Spain’s billion-euro agriculture sector depends on undocumented migrant laborers—now evicted en masse, left homeless, and trapped in a system that ...
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 ...
Turkey’s anti-dam struggles and the global reach of local resistance
Anti-dam protests once halted the Yusufeli Dam in Turkey, yet, national capital co-opted these efforts into tools of displacement and ...
Greenhouses, waste and exploitation: Spain’s floods and the destructive cycle of industrial food production
With climate-driven storms intensifying, this photo essay lays bare the human and environmental costs of the global food supply.
We need to talk about the hypocrisy of Germany’s environmental movement
There is a mutually reinforcing link between racist, colonial, and fascist tendencies at the core of much of Western environmentalism.
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 ...
Amidst ongoing conflict, efforts to save this endemic tree are threatened
On Yemen’s Socotra island, poverty and political disruption hinder efforts to give its prized dragon’s blood tree a future.
Dolma from a plastic plate
Our ancestors, who were often perceived as “ignorant” or “uncivilized” by colonists and western powers remain a model example of ...
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
