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Iran oil spill: The war is leaving environmental scars that ceasefires cannot heal
Nima Shokri
4 min read
The Strait of Hormuz is not only an energy chokepoint. It is an ecological chokepoint. And prolonged conflict exposes both at the same time
The Caspian Sea has lost an area nearly the size of Sicily: human activities are a major reason why
Nima Shokri
4 min read
New research overturns the myth of a purely climate-driven crisis, showing that engineered rivers, canals and opaque water withdrawals across five Caspian states are starving the sea and accelerating ...
How Iran war could create a ‘fertiliser shock’ — an often ignored global risk to food prices and farming
Nima Shokri
4 min read
The shock would not only reduce fertiliser shipments but also restrict ways to produce them elsewhere
Protests in Hamadan, Iran on January 2, 2026.
Nima Shokri
4 min read
The protests are fuelled by environmental collapse as much as politics and prices
Iran’s capital faces unprecedented water shortages and even possible evacuation. What changes could help?
Sanam Mahoozi
4 min read
Iran needs a unified national water authority that aligns energy, agriculture and environmental goals around sustainability
Field assistants are taking spectral reflectance measurements on wheat plants at Borlaug Institute for South Asia. Photo: Dalit Singh / Feed The Future
Nima Chodon
5 min read
Gender gap in STEM must be bridged to expand the talent pool and recognise women's potential and contribution to scientific innovations
Anita Naik in her paddy field. Photo: Nima Chodon
Nima Chodon
5 min read
Anita Naik, a farmer living near Similipal National Park, has become an entrepreneur after turning to maize instead of leaving uplands fallow
No end to climate change’s wrath for Himalayas as Nepal reports yet another glacial lake outburst
Raju Sajwan
4 min read
It is ironical that carbon emission of populations living in Himalayan region is low but the emissions elsewhere cause deadly destruction in the fragile region
I am living through the climate crisis in a hill city. And it is sad and scary
Inayat Singh Kakar
5 min read
While development is of importance to the people of Himachal Pradesh, development without consideration of sustainability in a delicate mountain ecosystem would only add to the increasing frequency an ...
Of the 11 million people in Sudan who need urgent health assistance, 2.64 million are women and girls of reproductive age. Photo: iStock
Susan Chacko
3 min read
Hospitals in affected areas shut or taken over; critical supply;for;obstetric care, post-rape treatment, contraceptives disrupted
Sub-saharan Africa is home to about one-fourth of those defecating in the open worldwide.
Mekonnen Teshome
7 min read
The state of sanitation is deteriorating in Sub-Saharan Africa, with countries switching from open defecation to unsafe toilets
Dijnouti is likely to miss its SDG targets on safe sanitation practices. Credit: Author
Aden Nima
9 min read
African countries, although serious about safe and total sanitation, are likely to miss Sustainable Development Goals by 2030
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