environmentandclimate
On March 25, London's Science Museum opened its Green Energy gallery, following a major protest the previous Saturday by climate justice, the South Asian diaspora and Palestinian organisations. The gallery is sponsored by Adani Green Energy, a company owned by Indian billionaire businessman Gautam Adani’s self-named conglomerate, the Adani Group. "Adani’s long-standing connections with the far-right regimes of India and Israel set this sponsorship apart" The ultimate exercise in greenwashing, the Green Energy gallery sits at the intersection of multiple interrelated issues — the overarching qu...
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Over the thousands of years humans have spent farming the Fertile Crescent, it has never ceased to be a hotbed of innovation. Today, Iraqis are experimenting with a type of agriculture that may reshape the region: growing plants without soil. As global warming and environmental degradation cause irreversible changes to the composition of Iraq’s farmland, the soil-free, water-saving science known as hydroponics offers the country of 40 million — home to two of the world’s most famous rivers — a chance to adapt to this new reality. Meanwhile, the international community will be waiting to see wh...
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Italy's lenient foreign policy with Israel may be influenced by the gas concessions off Gaza's coast that Israel recently handed to Italian oil company, Eni. On October 29, three weeks after Israel began its assault on Gaza, Israel's Energy Minister awarded 12 gas exploration licenses in two concessions zones. One of the zones is Zone G, awarded to Eni, the United Kingdom's Dana Petroleum and Israel's Ratio Petroleum Energy. The Italian oil giant led the concession. "Why Gaza? Before October 7, Israel's blockade [of Gaza] is also tied to the huge gas fields off the coast. Some estimates put th...
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The beaches of Egypt’s Mediterranean coast have long attracted tourists from across the world. They are now also catching the eye of foreign investors with tens of billions of dollars to spare. On February 23, Reuters reported that Egypt and the United Arab Emirates concluded a $35 billion deal for the development of Ras al-Hekma, a peninsula and tourist destination about 200 kilometres west of the Egyptian city of Alexandria. The agreement has offered Egypt’s economy a lifeline as it continues to struggle with record inflation and a shortage of hard currency. "If they renege on evolving commi...
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On the road along the Jordan Valley, every car that passes stirs up a cloud of sand and dust. Greenhouses and fields lie alongside wastelands of cracked, parched earth. It is hard to believe that this stretch of land is the most fertile in all of Jordan. Jordan is one of thedriest countries in the world and desertification is progressing rapidly: nine-tenths of agricultural land is being abandoned and turning into a desert landscape. Small farmers are struggling to survive. "Now the trees have disappeared and only vegetables are growing. Even the birds and other animals here are no longer the ...
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Scientists from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have long warned that climate change will have devastating and irreversible impacts on the Middle East. Climate change, also known as global warming, is fuelled by the release of powerful “greenhouse” gases that warm up our atmosphere, massively disrupting the environment in which we live. No one can predict exactly what impacts climate change will have over time in a given location, but the IPCC’s six assessment reports paint the most likely picture of what’s to come. According to these projections by the world’s top clim...
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It is estimated that around 13,000 cities, which are home to over 1.7 billion people, are facing extremely challenging climatic conditions due to the increasing temperatures. Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, is known to be one of the hottest cities globally, with temperatures exceeding 50 degrees Celsius during the summer. This extreme urban heat has affected over 450 cities worldwide, leading to higher energy consumption and negatively impacting people's health, resulting in heat-related illnesses and fatalities. However, a recent study published in the journal Nature Cities suggests that...
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After months of protests, the residents of the oasis of Figuig have carried their struggle against water privatisation to other cities. On February 22, they held a widely attended press conference in Rabat, the capital, and drew support from the local civil society, including human rights activists and lawyers. The next day, hundreds of people demonstrated their support in the eastern city of Oujda. Despite a lack of response from local authorities, they are continuing to voice their refusal to allow the private sector to have a hand in the city’s water management. In November, they took to th...
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In the 13 years since the downfall of Muammar Gaddafi, Libya has become a byword for the perils of Western military intervention. The country’s political dysfunction and on-and-off civil war have consumed most of the attention that the international community dedicates to Libya, even as the environmental issues that stem from these problems grow worse and go all but unaddressed. Libya’s hundreds of kilometres of coastline — the launchpad for boats carrying African migrants to Europe and Libyan oil to the rest of the world —offers a prime example. "Amid the countless immediate political challen...
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With Israel’s ongoing invasion of the Gaza Strip, the world has witnessed some very disturbing realities for the people of Palestine, including generation of families killed in their homes, 2,000-pound bombs levelling blocks, refugees forced to drink water contaminated by raw sewage for lack of an alternative, and young couples disappearing into Israeli prisons, where they experience “what may amount to torture” according to the United Nations. Even more so, the war has given many Israeli figures and officials the platform to spew shocking suggestions such as a recent Israeli proposal to creat...
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