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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…
#BringBackOurGirls: Ecofeminism, Climate, and Conflict
Apr 14, 2022
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Adenike Oladosu
On the night of April 14, 2014, a group of militants attacked the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Nigeria. They kidnapped 276 female students,…
The New Taleban’s Opium Ban: The same political strategy 20 years on?
Apr 14, 2022
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Jelena Bjelica, Kate Clark
Afghanistan has already lost most of its other foreign income in the form of on and off-budget support, both civilian and military, since the Taleban…
Climate Policies Must Allow Women to Control their Bodies and their Fates
Apr 14, 2022
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Zainab Yunusa
Links between women’s sexual and reproductive health and the impacts of climate change are made clear in the recent Working Group II report from the UN Intergovernmental…
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: 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…
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…
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…
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: 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…
Battles over UN Rulebook on War and Nature Show Might Still Trumps Right
Apr 12, 2022
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Tracy Keeling
War is always an environmental catastrophe, and one we can ill afford in our age of climate and ecological crises. In light of this, the UN’s International Law Commission (ILC) is…
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…
10 Ways War Harms Wildlife
Apr 11, 2022
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John R. Platt
As war and conflicts rage on in Ukraine, Yemen, South Sudan, Libya and other places around the globe, it’s important to look at the long-term…
What Next for Climate Security? Implications From IPCC Working Group II 6th Assessment Report
Apr 11, 2022
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Elisabeth Gilmore, Halvard Buhaug, and Helen Adams
The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report (AR6) from Working Group II (WG2): Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability presents the stark implications of climate change.…
Do Mention the War: Why Conservation NGOs Must Speak Out on Biodiversity and Conflicts
Apr 11, 2022
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Henrike Schulte to Bühne
After the Aichi targets, which aimed to slow global biodiversity loss by 2020, were missed, conservation organisations turned their attention to the post-2020 biodiversity framework, which is…
What Next for Climate Security? Implications From IPCC Working Group II 6th Assessment Report
Apr 11, 2022
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Elisabeth Gilmore, Halvard Buhaug, and Helen Adams
The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report (AR6) from Working Group II (WG2): Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability presents the stark implications of climate change. Some…
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…
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: 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…
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.
Weaponising Water — Ukraine's Dams Are Targets in Putin's War
Apr 8, 2022
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Nicholas Hildyard and Josh Klemm
In the early hours of 26 February 2022, Ukrainian air defences shot down a Russian missile reportedly heading for the Kyiv dam on the Dnieper…
Climate Change: An Interview with CS2P Co-Founder Sofia Kabbej on “Questions of Climate Security & Peace”
Apr 8, 2022
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Elsa Barron, Center for Climate and Security
The Climate Security & Peace Project (CS2P) is a team of “young researchers, professionals and students from diverse fields and backgrounds,” and aims to build…
The Climate Solutions That Play Double-Duty
Apr 7, 2022
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Yusuf Jameel and Aiyana Bodi
Finance for climate action is growing—however, much of this money is being invested in wealthier nations, while the regions where funds are needed most are often…
Three Ways to Build Back Greener in Community Health
Apr 7, 2022
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Shirley Ko
Yet another IPCC report published this week reminds us that we are at a critical crossroads to slow the rate of global warming. As COVID-19 gradually shifts…
Ukraine: OSCE Secretary General Calls for Vigilance as Fighting Increases Long-Term Environmental Risks in Ukraine
Apr 7, 2022
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Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid has warned of the serious environmental damages caused by continued fighting in Ukraine, and their long-term effects across the…
Myanmar: Countries That Sanctioned Myanmar’s Junta Are Still Buying Their Timber: Report
Apr 7, 2022
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Carolyn Cowan, Mongabay
Myanmar’s military-led regime exported more than $190 million worth of timber in 2021, including to countries with active sanctions on the country’s state-controlled timber monopoly,…
Afghanistan: A Third of Money from Precious Stone Mining Goes to State
Apr 7, 2022
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Qazafi Mal, Pajhwok Afghan News
Residents involved in the excavation of precious stones in eastern Kunar province pay the state one-third of the revenue, an official said.