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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 […]
Read more »Climate Change Is Making the Middle East Uninhabitable
August 20th, 2024
Via Foreign Policy, a report on the impact of climate change in the Middle East: Over the last 10 months, the world’s attention has been focused on Israel and the Gaza Strip. The war that began on Oct. 7, 2023, with Hamas’s attack on Israel has been cataclysmic. But the conflict has overshadowed another crisis […]
Read more »Was Iranian President Raisi A Martyr To Climate Change?
July 1st, 2024
Via Foreign Policy in Focus, commentary on Iran’s struggle to address its water shortage: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died on May 19 while returning from a ceremony to inaugurate a hydropower project in a remote corner of northwestern Iran. Why would a head of state brave the hazardous conditions of unseasonal blizzards in a mountainous […]
Read more »Iran Secures Water Rights from Afghanistan Following Talks
May 26th, 2024
Via The Frontier Post, a report that Iran has secured water rights from Afghanistan following recent talks: The ambassador and special representative of Iran to Afghanistan, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, said that over 300 million cubic meters of Tehran’s water rights have been secured from Afghanistan this solar year through negotiations and agreements with Afghanistan’s interim […]
Read more »Iran: Running Out of Time to Avoid Running Out of Water?
May 23rd, 2024
Via Modern Diplomacy, an article on how water scarcity, exacerbated by climate change, is posing a serious threat to global “hotspots” with Iran among the most vulnerable: Water scarcity, exacerbated by climate change, is posing a serious threat to global “hotspots” with Iran among the most vulnerable. Iran is swiftly approaching a state of “water […]
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