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Nov 12, 2020
How Iran is destroying its once thriving environmental movement
Iran once boasted one of the greenest governments. But persecution, paranoia, and war have sunk the Middle East’s most vital conservation programs.
Jul 16, 2020
Why the Nile Constitutes a New Kind of Water Dispute – and Why That’s Dangerous
Ever since workers first broke ground on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in 2011, international commenters have fixated on the Nile as a possible harbinger of future ‘water wars’ to come. And almost since then, water experts have pushed back...
Jul 7, 2020
The Authoritarian War on Environmental Journalism
In recent years, journalists in Egypt have fallen afoul of the state while covering almost every environmental issue imaginable. One reporter was beaten for reporting on toxic waste dumping along the Nile.1 Another was repeatedly harassed by state security for...
Jun 29, 2020
How Urban Design Can Make or Break Protests
Cities’ geography can aid, underscore or discourage a protest movement’s success
May 22, 2020
Coronavirus Pandemic Threatens to Derail Polio Eradication—but There’s a Silver Lining
COVID-19 has stifled the world’s largest immunization program. Yet polio’s vast workforce is also helping in the fight against the new disease
May 6, 2020
World’s rarest seal finds refuge on notorious prison island
After decades of hunting, Mediterranean monk seals now have a sanctuary on the “Alcatraz of Greece.” But will it be enough to prevent their extinction?