International
Myanmar: Convicted German Timber Trader Investigated by EIA Is Raided for Dealing in Illegal Myanmar Teak
Apr 22, 2022
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Environmental Investigation Agency
Working with information supplied by EIA’s Forests team, German police and customs have raided the private villa of timber trader Stefan Bührich and the grounds…
Colombia/Nicaragua: Colombia Must Stop Activities in Nicaraguan Maritime Zone, Says UN Court
Apr 21, 2022
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Deutsche Welle
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday ordered Colombia to "immediately cease" patrolling and interfering with fishing in parts of the Caribbean within Nicaragua's exclusive…
Colombia: Colombia Judge Orders Suspension of Fracking Pilot Project
Apr 21, 2022
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Oliver Griffin, Reuters
A judge in the Colombian city of Barrancabermeja on Thursday suspended an environmental license granted to a hydraulic fracturing - or fracking - pilot project,…
Ukraine: Ukrainian Environmentalists Tracking Possible Russian Eco Crimes
Apr 21, 2022
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Katie Nicholson and Waqas Chughtai, CBC News
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has shattered millions of lives, but environmental activists also worry the ecological damage to their country will be irreversible.
Climate Change: Army Must Prepare Installations for Climate Change
Apr 21, 2022
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Association of the United States Army
As climate change continues to impact many aspects of modern life, the Army must prepare for its effects on installations and operations, a panel of…
Iraq: Iraq's Water Reserves 'Down 50 Percent': Official
Apr 21, 2022
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Alannah Travers, Rudaw
A senior adviser at the Iraqi water resources ministry warned on Thursday that the country’s water reserves have decreased by half since last year, due…
Liberia: Lawmakers Back Reform in Forest Management Law
Apr 20, 2022
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Trokon A. Freeman, FrontPage Africa
Members of the House of Representatives and Liberian Senate committees on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries have declared their support to a draft legislation seeking reform…
Sierra Leone: Coated in Hope and Penury: The Story of Sierra Leone’s Artisan Miners
Apr 19, 2022
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Peter Yeung, Al Jazeera
By late morning in Seidu, a remote village in the Koidu area of eastern Sierra Leone, the cracks, scrapes and thuds of metal shovels being…
Ukraine: The Plan to Rebuild a Green Ukraine
Apr 19, 2022
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Karl Mathiesen, Politico
Ukraine should be rebuilt as a clean powerhouse that spurs the EU's Green Deal, according to the head of the Ukrainian parliament’s climate subcommittee.
Ukraine: War in Ukraine Poses Environmental Risk Now and in the Future, Advocates Say
Apr 19, 2022
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Vanessa Montalbano and Maxine Joselow, Washington Post
As Russian forces bombard communities across Ukraine, the nation’s once-vibrant ecosystems are becoming scorched and scarred, rewinding decades of conservation work, according to Ukrainian climate…
Liberia: Women's Land Rights Awareness Campaign Bears Fruits
Apr 19, 2022
Adah Johnson,* 56, from Flumpa, Nimba County in north-eastern Liberia is a beneficiary of the continued awareness sessions on the rights of women to land…
Afghanistan: Strawberry Fields Could Supplant Afghanistan's Poppies, Forever
Apr 18, 2022
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Xinhua
Afghanistan's Kandahar, Helmand and Zabul provinces have always been close to the heart of the world's opium, and later heroin, trade. Poppy cultivation has been…
Ukraine: UN Official Says ‘Food Is Being Used as a Weapon of War’ in Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Apr 17, 2022
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Mychael Schnell, The Hill
David Beasley, the executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme, on Sunday said “food is being used as a weapon of war” in…
Libya: Libya Declares Force Majeure on Major Oil Field Stormed by Protesters
Apr 17, 2022
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Pan Xiaojing, Xinhua
Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) declared a state of force majeure over the El Feel oil field on Sunday as protesters forced the closure of…
Afghanistan: Pistachio Trees Being Cut Down in Baghlan for Sale
Apr 17, 2022
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Raz Mohammad, Pajhwok Afghan News
Officials of Forests’ Observation and Protection Authority of northern Baghlan province say 30 percent of pistachio trees have been cut down.
Afghanistan: 25,000 Pistachio Saplings Distributed for Plantation in Afghan Province
Apr 16, 2022
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Xinhua
More than 25,000 pistachio saplings have been distributed for plantation in Afghanistan's western Badghis province, the local government said Saturday. It said the young trees…
DRC: In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Unintended Consequences of ‘Fortress Conservation’
Apr 15, 2022
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Katie Surma, Inside Climate News
Last July, teams of armed park guards and Congolese soldiers who were supposed to be protecting a national wildlife preserve in the Democratic Republic of…
Ukraine: ‘Fortress in a City’: Steel Plant becomes Ukrainian Hold-out in Mariupol
Apr 15, 2022
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Reuters
Explosions rumbled and smoke rose this week from a steelmaking district in besieged Mariupol where dwindling Ukrainian forces are holed up as Russia tries to…
Colombia: Solar Farms and Sacred Mountains in Colombia: Indigenous Community and Developer Link Arms to Save ‘Irreplaceable’ Nature Reserve
Apr 14, 2022
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Grant Whittington, Triple Pundit
A trailblazing environmental project launching in Colombia’s biodiverse Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains promises to pair the construction of solar farms with newly built…
Colombia: Colombian Indigenous Community Waits in Poverty as Courts Weigh Ownership of Ancestral Land
Apr 14, 2022
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Mongabay
Nearly 13 years have passed since the Guahibo Indigenous community El Trompillo was allegedly forcibly relocated from their territory. Members report persistent hunger and overcrowding…
Colombia: Colombia Becomes First Case Study on How to Balance Biodiversity Goals with Limited Economic Resources
Apr 14, 2022
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Arizona State University
In 2019, a landmark report gave the world its first report card on biodiversity loss. There was one crystal clear conclusion: human actions threaten more…
Ukraine: A ‘Silent Victim’: How Nature Becomes a Casualty of War
Apr 13, 2022
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Emily Anthes, New York Times
Since Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February, the world’s attention has been focused on the nation’s heavily shelled cities. But Ukraine, in an ecological transition…
Colombia: In Landslide-Prone Colombia, Forests Can Serve as an Inexpensive Shield
Apr 13, 2022
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Gianluca Cerullo, Mongabay
Colombia’s undulating, rain-soaked topography makes it a landslide hotspot. Each year, hundreds of landslides wrack the nation; some 30,730 hit between 1900 and 2018. Not…
Ukraine: ‘They Were Hooligans’: Chernobyl Locals Reeling after Russian Invasion
Apr 13, 2022
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Luke Harding, Guardian
Russian forces trundled into the Chernobyl exclusion zone on 24 February in the early hours of the invasion. According to Davidenko, they crossed over the…
Somalia: UN Women Somalia, in Partnership with the Federal Ministry of Women and Human Rights Development and Ministries of Women Launch Two Research Studies
Apr 12, 2022
UN Women Somalia, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry for Women and Human Rights Development (MoWHRD) and the Ministries of Women, Jubaland and the South West State, launched two research studies focusing on gender, climate and conflict, and market assessments of micro-enterprise opportunities at…
Colombia: A Seed Bank in Colombia Is Helping to Climate-Proof Food Systems
Apr 12, 2022
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Clarisa Diaz, Quartz
As extreme weather and drought affect agriculture all over the world, securing both food systems and farmers’ livelihoods is becoming increasingly vital. The Future Seeds…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraqi Ministry to Oversee Kurdistan Oil and Gas Field Management, Says SOMO
Apr 11, 2022
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Reuters
Iraq's oil ministry has taken all necessary measures required to implement a federal court's ruling that gives it the authority to manage oil and gas…
Afghanistan: Iron, Lead Mines on Bidding, Salt to Be Extracted by Afghan Companies
Apr 10, 2022
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Xinhua
The Taliban-run caretaker cabinet has tasked the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum to bid on the exploration and extraction of iron and lead mines, the…
Iraq: Iraq's Farmers Pushed off Land as Drought and Heat Cripple Crops
Apr 10, 2022
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Tessa Fox, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Iraq is the fifth most vulnerable country in the world to extreme temperatures and water shortages, according to the U.N. Environment Programme. As harsher drought…
Afghanistan: Beekeeping -- Livelihood to Replace Opium Poppy Cultivation in Afghanistan
Apr 9, 2022
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Xinhua
The beekeeping and honey production industry in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar has been expanding after long years of insecurity and heavy fighting.