The Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources revealed on June, 30 the results of discussions held by the ministry’s delegation during its official visit to Turkey last week, as well as discussing the possibility of Ankara’s contribution in building the Makhoul Dam project, state media reported. Ministry spokesman Awni Diab confirmed to state media that there […]
Of course, you know who Greta Thunberg is? Have you heard about her main creation – so called Fridays For Future strikes? Even more – do you know that a movement established by a small girl in 2019 started to influence EU politics? Let’s check it, thankfully to Ecoaction NGO explanation. In 2019, during the […]
What’s wrong with nuclear energy? Proponents of this industry say that “the atom will save the world” and all of us from the climate crisis. Meanwhile, environmental activists say the opposite. Let’s start the investigation of how nuclear energy is represented in art and mass culture. We’re thankful to Ecoaction NGO for a brilliant review. […]
Planes, helicopters, boats, and 4x4s are being deployed, hundreds of camera traps and satellite collars monitored, and an array of dung studied across Kenya, as the country embarks on its first national census of wildlife, The Guardian reports. Count aims to provide crucial conservation data on animals including pangolins, turtles, and antelope. The census, covering […]
Let’s talk about the example of Ukraine, how hostilities can affect the environment. For the Gulf countries, where the echoes of the war in Iraq are still going on, and the war in Syria is raging nearby, this topic is particularly painful, and the analogies are obvious. Kateryna Norenko, an expert of the International Charitable […]
Jeddah Economic City – one of Saudi Arabia’s flagship megaprojects, which will include the world’s tallest tower – is nearing completion on all road construction and landscaping work, according to a senior executive on the project, Arab News reports. Speaking at the Urban Landscape Saudi 2021 event this week, Fady Nassim, executive head of urban […]
The Middle East and North Africa face a host of major environmental challenges, from water scarcity and food insecurity to climate change adaptation. Let’s get acquainted with the Middle East Institute (Washington-based) interviews on these topics. In conjunction with MEI’s Climate Week 2021 events, this institution asked experts and scholars to weigh in with their […]
Special Envoy for Climate Affairs, Chief Executive of the Supreme Council for Environment (SCE), Dr. Mohammed Mubarak bin Daina received South Korean Ambassador to the Kingdom of Bahrain, Hae Kwan Chung. He lauded the ambassador’s efforts to boost bilateral relations, mainly in the environmental field, stressing SCE’s keenness to further enhance cooperation between both countries […]
British environmental experts in May 2021 collected data for the last year on the level of pollution in different cities of the world. They took into account such indicators as the degree of air pollution, the level of noise, and light pollution. And it turned out that India has been the leader in the number […]
The first massive action of removing electric scooters from the bottom of the Rhine river will take place in German city Cologne at the end of June, DW reports. Recently, during the repair and arrangement of embankments, divers, who usually clean the bottom of the river from debris before work, found more than 500 electric […]
