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Registration Now Open for Symposium on Water-Energy-Peace Nexus

Aug 29, 2025
Environmental Peacebuilding Association and University of Ottawa

Registration has opened for a one-day hybrid Symposium on the Water-Energy-Peace Nexus, which will be hosted by the Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) and the University…

Conflict at COPs: Russia’s Exit from the Ramsar Convention

Aug 28, 2025 | Eva Baudichau and Meng Wang

Russia’s withdrawal from the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands didn’t make global headlines—but it probably should have. At first glance, a wetlands convention may seem an…

Afghanistan: Foreign Investors Invited to Invest in Afghanistan's Mining Sector

Aug 28, 2025
TOLOnews

In a speech at Tatarstan's Oil and Gas Industrial Forum, Minister of Mines and Petroleum Hedayatullah Badri highlighted Afghanistan's vast oil and gas reserves and…

Why Future Wars Will Be Fought over Water Supply

Aug 26, 2025 | Patrick Yeager

In the coming years, increasing water insecurity will threaten many nations’ internal stability, challenge the viability of large cities worldwide, and worsen international conflicts. Of…

‘Carbon Colonialism’?

Aug 26, 2025 | Tina S. Mehnpaine

The Liberian government has sparked a debate with the release of its draft Carbon Development Policy, which declares that all carbon credits generated within the…

Myanmar: Over 1,300 Protected Forests across Myanmar Require Legal Protection

Aug 26, 2025 | Htet Nadi and Thet Paing
NP News

Myanmar has established and designated 1,328 reserved and protected forests as of July 31, 2025, according to data provided to The Statesman by the Forest…

Colombia: SIPRI Co-Hosts Policy Events on Climate Justice in Colombia

Aug 26, 2025
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

On 13–14 August 2025, SIPRI co-hosted a series of meetings in Bogotá, Colombia. The events brought together Colombian policymakers, regional specialists and civil society groups.…

Myanmar: Myanmar Junta Recaptures Mandalay Gold Mine

Aug 26, 2025
Irrawaddy

The military regime has taken back control of the sprawling Phayaung Taung gold mine on the border of Madaya, Patheingyi, and Pyin Oo Lwin townships…

Israel/Lebanon: 'When Bombs Turn Taps off': Israel Wrecks Lebanon's Water Systems Despite Ceasefire

Aug 26, 2025 | Sarah Khalil
New Arab

Six months after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah was meant to halt fighting in Lebanon, violations persist, and hundreds of thousands of civilians remain…

Israel/Syria: Damascus Is Running out of Water. The Culprit? Climate Change, Conflict...and Israeli Land Grabs

Aug 26, 2025 | Youssef Al Ibrahim
New Arab

For the first time in half a century, Damascus and its surrounding countryside are experiencing an unprecedented water shortage that has forced authorities to implement…

How Weather Stations Are Empowering Farmers and Building Peace in Northwest Nigeria

Aug 25, 2025 | UNDP Nigeria

For generations, farmers in Nigeria have relied on traditional agricultural practices, their wisdom passed down through time and rooted in cultural traditional knowledge. These methods…

Afghanistan: Taliban Announce Confiscation of Vast Tracts of Land in Logar

Aug 25, 2025
Afghanistan International

The Taliban say they have confiscated more than 1,400 acres of land in Logar province, classifying it as state property. The Taliban have established the…

Somalia: Seeds of Recovery: Somali-Led Solutions at a Turning Point

Aug 25, 2025 | Claudia McGoldrick
International Organization for Migration

For decades, Somalia has been defined by crisis – conflict, drought, floods, displacement, and insecurity. But today, across this complex, proud, and resilient country, a…

DRC: Congo’s Mineral Curse Fuels US-China Rivalry

Aug 25, 2025
Lowy Institute

The Democratic Republic of Congo is again at the centre of one of the world’s most severe humanitarian and security crises. Despite the public headlines…

Ukraine/Russia: Ukraine War Briefing: Water Crisis in Russian-Held Donetsk as Canal Eludes Capture

Aug 25, 2025 | Warren Murray
Guardian

The illegally appointed head of the partly Russian-held Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine has said a water crisis that is forcing people to queue at…

Afghanistan: Afghanistan Builds 120 Onion Cold Storage Facilities to Strengthen Food Security in Rural Areas

Aug 24, 2025
Xinhua

A total of 120 onion cold storage facilities are under construction across provinces with the financial support of the World Bank in Afghanistan. According to…

Afghanistan: Farmers in Herat Turn to Drip Irrigation amid Ongoing Drought

Aug 23, 2025
TOLOnews

Over the past year, the drip irrigation system has expanded in several districts of Herat. Drought and water shortages have forced farmers to adopt this…

Afghanistan/Iran: Iran Steps up Pressure on Taliban over Helmand River Water Rights

Aug 23, 2025
Afghanistan International

Iran has accused the Taliban of failing to honour a key water treaty and vowed to intensify pressure on the group to secure its share…

Ukraine/Russia: Parts of Russia Face Gasoline Shortages after Ukraine Struck Refineries

Aug 21, 2025
Reuters

Several regions in Russia and parts of Ukraine it controls are reporting gasoline shortages after Ukraine stepped up attacks on Russian oil refineries this month,…

Tackling Security and Climate Challenges in the Lake Chad Basin Requires Collaboration

Aug 21, 2025 | Aminata Niang

The consequences of climate change in the Lake Chad Basin are not only environmental but also tied to conflict and insecurity. The resource scarcity caused…

The Brahmaputra and the Geopolitics of Water Sharing

Aug 21, 2025 | Himangshu Ranjan Bhuyan

Flowing through some of the most sensitive political geographies of Asia, the Brahmaputra is nor merely a river but a lifeline that sustains millions, a…

Afghanistan: Water Extremes Drive People from Homes in Afghanistan

Aug 21, 2025
Agence France-Presse

Successive wars displaced Afghans over 40 years, but peace has not brought reprieve, as climate change-fuelled shocks drive people from their homes and strain livelihoods.

Afghanistan: Afghanistan's Water Predicament Goes Regional

Aug 21, 2025
Middle East NorthAfrica Financial Network

After decades of war that left it with little authority over its five major river basins, Afghanistan is now asserting greater control of its water…

Liberia: Journalists Condemn Proposal to Degazette Sapo National Park, Warn of International Fallout

Aug 21, 2025 | Francis G. Boayue
FrontPage Africa

The Journalists for the Protection of Nature (JPN-Liberia) has strongly condemned a proposal by Sinoe County Representative, Romeo Quiah, to degazette the Sapo National Park,…

How Grassroots Women-Led Networks are Strengthening Resilience and Reducing Climate-Conflict Risks: Experience from Latin America and the Caribbean

Aug 21, 2025 | Nohelia Palou Zúniga and Ignacio Madurga-Lopez

Across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), women are uniquely positioned to address the dual crises of climate change and conflict. Their community networks, rooted…