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New Report Warns of Critical Climate Risks in MENA Region
December 8th, 2025
Via Inside Climate News, a look at growing water stress in the MENA region where the foundations of daily life, including farms, reservoirs and aquifers that feed and sustain millions, are being pushed to the brink by human-caused warming: As global warming accelerates, about 480 million people in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula face […]
Read more »‘Whack-a-Mole Situation’: Algerian Officials Wrestle with Water Shortage Anger
July 3rd, 2024
Via The Guardian, a report on Algeria, where critics say the state is not acting fast enough to build desalination stations to deal with dwindling rainfall and resulting drought: On 8 June, anger over months of water rationing spilled over in the drought-stricken central Algerian town of Tiaret, where balaclava-wearing demonstrators barricaded roads and burned […]
Read more »Water Tensions Boil Over In Drought-Stricken Central Algeria Over Months of Water Shortages
June 16th, 2024
Via AP News, a report on riots erupting in drought-stricken central Algeria over months of water shortages: Violent riots erupted in a drought-stricken Algerian desert city last weekend after months of water shortages left taps running dry and forced residents to queue to access water for their households. In Tiaret — a central Algerian city […]
Read more »After a Dry Spring, Northwest Africa Braces for Disruptive Crop Failures
May 27th, 2023
Courtesy of RANE Worldview, analysis of how – after a dry Spring – Northwest Africa braces for disruptive crop failures: As the summer harvest season begins in agriculture-dependent North Africa, severe drought will lead to crop failures that will increase risks of political uncertainty, social unrest and economic instability. Northwest Africa’s Maghreb region, which includes Morocco, […]
Read more »‘Living On The Edge’: Middle East At Risk of Climate-Induced Food, Water Scarcity
November 4th, 2022
Via Terra Daily, a report on a new Greenpeace study focused on the Middle East’s climate risks: The Middle East is at high risk of water and food scarcity as well as severe heat waves as a result of climate change, said a Greenpeace study released Wednesday. Published only days ahead of the UN climate […]
Read more »Middle East and North Africa: Dry and Disorderly
August 8th, 2021
Courtesy of The Economist, an article on the parched countries of the Middle East and North Africa: In the neighbourhood of Algiers where the presidential palace and foreign embassies are located, some think the water pressure has increased of late. But don’t tell those living in the suburbs of Algeria’s capital, where the taps have […]
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