Residents in Sulaimani province’s Tanjero area blocked roads on Sunday in protest of the lack of clean drinking water and essential services, Rudaw reports. “We don’t have water, we’re all parched. I have been in Tanjero for five years, it doesn’t have water, we buy water,” Nahida Mohammed, a protester, told Rudaw on Sunday. “Our […]
Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) has signed two new contracts to remediate soil contaminated by oil spills in North and South Kuwait, as part of the Kuwait Environmental Rehabilitation Program (KERP), GDNonline reports. CEO Emad Mahmoud Sultan represented the Company in signing the contracts. DCEO (Major Projects & Technical Services) Khalid Al-Otaibi, DCEO (Commercial & Common […]
There’s a monument to human carelessness in the sea – Great Pacific Garbage Patch (also Pacific trash vortex); this is the largest and most well-known cluster of floating debris drifting between California and Hawaii. According to a study by Lauren Lebreton and his colleagues from the Ocean Cleanup Foundation in 2018, the area of this […]
A new law regulating liquid discharge into the marine environment from land-based activities has come into effect in Abu Dhabi Emirate, Gulf News reports. The Environment Agency implements the regulation – Abu Dhabi (EAD), the emirate’s environment sector regulator – and aims to preserve marine water and sediment quality. The regulation also sets standards for […]
When his workplace blew to pieces, dockworker Yusuf Shehadi was waiting to hear back from colleagues who had scrambled to help firefighters extinguish a blaze in the port of Beirut. The fire was terrible and getting worse, they told him in their last conversation before a giant explosion killed them, and 210 others, a year […]
The world’s largest tire dump at the Al Sulaibiya tire site in Kuwait is on fire and is visible on satellite images. The tire graveyard is estimated to have 7 million tires, according to posts on social media. Horrified reactions poured in on social media after a burning pile of tires video was shared online. […]
In June 2020 the Environment Society of Oman organized a virtual lecture entitled, “Plastic is Not Fantastic”. It was presented by Fahim Firfiray, a Leadership Trainer at PDO who is passionate about this issue and part of a team in PDO raising awareness. He spoke about how the world is sleepwalking into an environmental catastrophe […]
The sponge that collects oil; the cleaning robots at the bottom of the seas; and the “eighth continent” – let’s get to know how humanity saves the ocean and how each of us can help. Thanks to Rubryka for a thoughtful review. It has been proven that even one day on the coast can recharge […]
The light pollution produced by street lamps, advertising boards, floodlights, and our homes is so harmful that 80% of the world’s population lives in the haze of a perpetual glow in the hours of darkness, BBC states. It started like any other day for Stephen Maciejewski. He woke up at 04:30, and by 05:30 he […]
Plastic pollutes the environment for up to 400 years. Plastic and its increasingly drastic effects on people, animals, and the environment and how we deal with this problem is one of the most significant challenges of our time, but above all of the future. Greenpeace and fischerAppelt created the “Plastic Legacy” campaign to emphasize the […]
