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Climate Change—and Complacency—Is Drying Up the Caspian Sea
January 11th, 2025
Via World Politics Review, a look at how climate change – and complacency – is drying up the Caspian Sea: The Caspian Sea is a geographical marvel and a critical resource for the five countries—Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan—that border it. But the future of the world’s largest enclosed inland body of water is […]
Read more »Afghanistan Warns Iran After Criticism of Dam Project
January 8th, 2025
Via Dawn, a report on continued water tension between Afghanistan and Iran: The Afghan government warned Iran on Wednesday against “irresponsible comments” following Tehran’s criticism last week of an upstream dam being built by its neighbour. Water rights have long been a source of friction in ties between the two countries, which share a more than 900-kilometre […]
Read more »Iran Urges Afghanistan’s Compliance with International Rules on Border Rivers
January 5th, 2025
Via Tasnim News, a report that Iran has urged Afghanistan to comply with international rules on border rivers: The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry called on the Taliban to cooperate in maintaining the natural flow of water in shared border rivers and comply with international standards and environmental regulations regarding those rivers. In a […]
Read more »The Land Subsidence Crisis in Tehran: A Looming Environmental and Infrastructure Catastrophe
December 2nd, 2024
Via Iran News Update, a report on Tehran’s land subsidence crisis caused by excessive groundwater pumping: Tehran, Iran’s bustling capital with a population of nearly 9.8 million, is grappling with a silent yet devastating crisis: land subsidence. This phenomenon, largely driven by mismanagement of water resources and excessive extraction of groundwater, is causing widespread damage […]
Read more »Iran’s Groundwater and Subsidence Crisis
November 19th, 2024
Via Smart Water Magazine, a report on Iran’s water crisis: Large parts of Iran are affected by groundwater loss and land subsidence. This is shown by a study by Mahmud Haghshenas Haghighi and Mahdi Motagh, which has just been published in the journal Science Advances. The two authors from Leibniz University Hannover and the GFZ German Research Centre for […]
Read more »Caspian Sea: At Risk of Desertification
August 21st, 2024
Via Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting, a report on the Caspian Sea: In November-December 2023, Beda organized the research group ?????? / SUSPENDED MATTER focused on exploring the environmental policies of the Soviet Union and their long-term consequences in Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and the South Caucasus. One notable outcome of the group’s work […]
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