Toxic Trade: How Europe Exports Its Waste to Morocco and Calls It Recycling
European companies legally ship hundreds of thousands of tonnes of waste to Moroccan cement kilns every year, erasing the pollution ...
Tag: Environment
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 ...
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 ...
Gabès Is Suffocating: Breathing Under Phosphate, Protest, and Green Colonialism
For decades, toxic industry has poisoned Gabès’ air and sea. Today, residents claim the right to breathe—rising against phosphate pollution, ...
“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 ...
Italy’s ‘Death Valley’: Resisting Europe’s Arms Drive, Toxic Legacies, and Gaza Complicity
“Everyone here knows someone with cancer,” say Anagni residents, rallying against a new arms plant fueling global conflicts from Gaza ...
Rachid’s Journey: How Our Food System Exploits ‘Illegal’ Migration
Every year, tens of thousands of migrants arrive in southern Spain to work in the plastic greenhouses of Europe. This ...
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 ...
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
