Sacrifice Zone: How Europe’s Hunt for Non-Russian Oil Poisons Kazakhstan’s Caspian Coast
In 2025, one in every eight barrels of oil imported into Italy came from Kazakhstan. Starting in Atyrau, we traced ...
Tag: Water
Did Syria’s Uprising Start with Kurdish Farmers?
Decades of dispossession made drought a local catastrophe as grievances and rainfall primed the northeast to rise up in 2011
On and Within Water: Crossings of the Orontes River between Memory and Local Knowledge
As dams drain the Orontes and deforestation strips timber sources, Syrian and Lebanese boatmakers' traditions vanish, erasing generations of craft ...
Poisoned Springs: How Sewage, Silt, and State Neglect Are Killing Life in Kashmir’s Freshwaters
Untreated sewage, plastic waste, and illegal riverbed mining are choking Kashmiri springs and ecosystems, and officials have done little more ...
More Scars Than Traces: Christopher Nolan Filmed His The Odyssey in Messenia, But Can the Region Survive the Spotlight?
The same wild coastlines and ancient fortresses that drew Hollywood's cameras are straining under rising heat, overtourism, and a resort ...
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 ...
Rewriting Egypt’s Social Contract Through Water
Behind prepaid meters and privatization lies a deeper shift: IMF-backed reforms centralizing power and commodifying water at the expense of ...
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 ...
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 ...
An indigenous community and its river: a story of survival in Nepal
In Nepal’s Ramechhap district, the Majhi community is facing displacement and cultural loss due to urbanization, climate change, and state ...
