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Sunk Debris from World Wars Provides Home for Wildlife
Sep 25, 2025
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Robert Egan
Nature Publishing Group
More marine life is living on some World War II munitions disposed of on the Baltic Sea's seabed than on the sediment surrounding it. The…
Liberia: Mapping Liberia’s Fishing Future: New Study Highlights Urgent Need to Protect Landing Sites and Fishers’ Rights
Sep 25, 2025
Environmental Justice Foundation
Liberia’s small-scale fisheries are the backbone of coastal livelihoods, but they face mounting threats from coastal erosion, mangrove destruction, and insecure land rights. Fishing communities’…
Pakistan: Maryam Announces Special Courts for Land-Grabbing Cases
Sep 25, 2025
The News
Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz announced new legislation to eliminate land grabbing targeting orphans, widows, and underprivileged citizens in the province. She also announced the…
Iraq/Kurdistan: Iraqi PM Announces ‘Historic’ Deal to Resume Kurdish Oil Exports
Sep 25, 2025
Rudaw
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani on Thursday announced that his government has reached a "historic agreement" with the Kurdistan Region to resume Kurdish oil…
Blood Minerals and Resource Curse: The Case of Sudan and the DRC
Sep 24, 2025
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Mohammad Mahfuzul Islam
Minerals fuel modern civilization, ensuring comfort and amenities. From electronic devices to machines of all types, various minerals are required to operate them. Should we…
The Environment as Casualty of War
Sep 24, 2025
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Tom Hardy
A 2019 study by Stanford University found that climate change contributed to three to 20 per cent of global conflicts over the past century. As global…
Climate Change: Baku Hub Partnership: Innovative Climate-Peace Solutions for Conflict Affected and Vulnerable Contexts
Sep 24, 2025
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Shoko Noda
UNDP
Time and time again, one barrier stands out: access to climate finance. We heard this clearly at the second Africa Climate Summit earlier this month,…
Liberia: Rural Communities Get Safe Drinking Water Facilities
Sep 23, 2025
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Emery Watson
Observer
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), through the Accelerated Community Development Programme (ACDP), will formally turn over four state-of-the-art solar-powered water facilities valued at $334,847.28…
Mud, Memories, and Meaning: Investigating Climate Security in Southwestern Zimbabwe
Sep 22, 2025
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Gracsious Mavisa
This study examines climate security challenges in southwestern Zimbabwe's Tsholotsho district, where communities continue to grapple with the lasting impacts of Cyclones Dineo (2017) and…
South Sudan: More Than $2.2bn Diverted from Oil in South Sudan, Says UN
Sep 22, 2025
energynews
A UN report reveals that nearly 90% of road projects financed by oil never materialised, fuelling surging poverty amid extreme inflation and poor management.
India: From Conflict to Reconciliation: UN Calls to See Climate Harmony as Security, Stability
Sep 21, 2025
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Anoushka Caroline Williams
Newsmeter
It is also about whether crops survive erratic monsoons, whether the Yamuna and Musi rivers can still sustain life and whether urban air remains breathable…
Why Liberia Should Approach TotalEnergies’ Production Sharing Contracts with Caution
Sep 19, 2025
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Seltue Karweaye Sr.
TotalEnergies, formerly known as Total, is a major player in the global oil and gas industry, recognized as the fourth-largest publicly traded oil and gas…
Liberia: Carbon Markets: Liberia’s Next Frontier for Sustainable Growth
Sep 19, 2025
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Winnie Oguerilam
FrontPage Africa
As the world accelerates efforts to address climate change, carbon markets have become a central mechanism linking environmental stewardship with economic opportunity. For Liberia, a…
Colombia: Colombia Hands over 18,000 Hectares of Land to Rural Families
Sep 19, 2025
Prensa Latina
The transfer of 18,000 hectares of land belonging to drug traffickers and front men to rural families and victims in six departments marks a step…
Ghana: In Coastal Ghana, Female Oyster Farmers Try to Save an Old Practice Threatened by Climate Change
Sep 18, 2025
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Naa Adorkor Cudjoe and Ope Adetayo
AP News
Beatrice Nutekpor weaves through the mangroves in Tsokomey community, just outside of Ghana’s capital of Accra, every day to harvest oysters for sale. It’s a…
How Land Grabbing Harms the Environment and Its Defenders
Sep 18, 2025
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Becca Inglis
The term "land grabs" describes large-scale acquisitions of land that rob communities of access to their homes and livelihoods. While the term has become more…
Land: How Land Grabbing Harms the Environment and Its Defenders
Sep 18, 2025
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Becca Inglis
The term "land grabs" describes large-scale acquisitions of land that rob communities of access to their homes and livelihoods. While the term has become more…
Nigeria: How Deadly Conflict and Climate Crisis Left the ‘Food Basket of Nigeria’ a Humanitarian Disaster Zone
Sep 18, 2025
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Nick Ferris
Independent
Jacob is one of two million people that the Red Cross estimates have been forced to flee their homes in Benue due to violent ‘herdsmen-farmer…
Ukraine: US Pledges $75M to Develop Ukraine’s Resources
Sep 18, 2025
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Hannah Northey
Energy & Environment News
The US is pledging $75 million to jump-start the mining and processing of critical minerals in war-torn Ukraine, as well as oil and gas and…
Somalia: Design of Gendered Displacement Drivers Assessment (GDDA) Framework
Sep 18, 2025
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CARE
Nagaasho – Integrated Solutions for Preventing Displacement and Strengthening Rural Resilience in Somalia and Somaliland is a consortium of national and international organizations – CARE…
DRC: UN Experts Warn Congo’s Conflict Minerals Slipping into Global Market
Sep 17, 2025
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Pauline Turuban
swissinfo.ch
The energy transition is fueling demand for critical minerals, straining transparency of supply chains. A UN report warns that minerals extracted from the Democratic Republic…
Prioritize a Holistic Arctic Security Strategy for NATO: A Sketch
Sep 16, 2025
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Laurel Baker
NATO must consider a variety of non-military factors that inform an innovative, accountable, maximally situationally aware, and minimally disruptive Arctic security strategy. This graphic attempts…
Myanmar: Satellite Data Show Burst of Deforestation in Myanmar Rare Earth Mining Hotspots
Sep 16, 2025
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Latoya Abulu and Sonam Lama Hyolmo
Mongabay
Myanmar’s Kachin state, near the border with China, is a global hub for rare earth minerals. But the dearth of regulations over mining these resources…
South Sudan: South Sudan’s Wealth ‘Stolen at the Top,’ UN Warns
Sep 16, 2025
Radio Tamazuj
The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan on Tuesday called for urgent action to address widespread corruption and the theft of public resources…
Liberia: Judge Warns against Rising Land Disputes
Sep 16, 2025
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Abednego Davis
Observer
Judge Boima Kontoe of the Civil Law Court raised concerns about the increasing conflicts over land in Liberia and called for the urgent need to…
Sudan: Anchors of Hope: Women Driving Recovery and Resilience
Sep 15, 2025
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UN Sudan
UN Sudan
The Sudan’s conflict, which erupted in April 2023, has created one of the world’s fastest-growing humanitarian crises. Today, an estimated 30.4 million people need assistance…
Conflict Minerals: Critical Minerals Contribute to Instability in Africa
Sep 15, 2025
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Jean-Michel Bos and Ana Munoz Padros
Deutsche Welle
Coveted for their use in environmentally oriented infrastructure and other emerging technologies, critical minerals are mined in 31 of the 54 countries on the African…
Sudan: Sudan Bans Private Gold Exports, Central Bank to Be Sole Buyer
Sep 15, 2025
Sudan Tribune
Sudan’s central bank on Monday banned all private gold exports, announcing it would become the sole legal buyer and exporter of the precious metal in…
Iran: Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan Faces Irreversible Collapse as Hamoun Wetlands Dry up
Sep 15, 2025
Iran International
Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan province is grappling with a worsening environmental crisis as drought and intensifying dust storms devastate the Hamoun wetlands, with experts warning of farmland…
Call for Proposals: Environmental Peacebuilding Panel at the 2026 NERPS Conference in Tokyo (Deadline: October 6, 2025)
Sep 15, 2025
Tobias Ide and Aleksandra Balinskaia will organise a panel on environmental peacebuilding at the 5th Conference of the Network for Education and Research on Peace and…