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Iran’s Environmental Challenges
July 12th, 2023
Via Spotify, an interesting interview with Dr. Shirin Hakim, head of the Environment, Climate Security, and Public Health unit at the Center for Middle East and Global Order on Iran’s worsening environmental issues, the Iranian government’s decades-long mismanagement and overexploitation of its natural resources, and how Western sanctions play into the Iranian regime’s environmental strategy.
Read more »The Unique Promise of Environmental Cooperation in the Gulf
July 12th, 2023
Courtesy of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a look at the the unique promise of environmental cooperation in the Gulf over issues such as water: The Issue Environmental dialogue in the Gulf holds unique promise to test the potential for greater regional cooperation amidst widespread distrust.* Environmental issues have not been as politicized […]
Read more »Considerable But Unsustainable Water From Thawing Permafrost on the Tibetan Plateau In Changing Climate
July 12th, 2023
Via Terra Daily, a report on a new study examining the impact of climate change on Tibetan Plateau ice and water resources: This study is led by Dr. Taihua Wang and Dr. Dawen Yang (Tsinghua University), together with experts in the field of both permafrost and glacier including Dr. Tandong Yao, Dr. Xin Li (Institute […]
Read more »California Democrats Chip Away At Historic Water Rights
July 12th, 2023
Via The Center Square, a report that California Democrats are moving forward a bill to chip away historic water rights: The California Assembly Committee on Water, Parks, and Wildlife today passed a bill out of committee that would empower the State Water Board to chip away at historic water rights and significantly reduce rural water allocations. […]
Read more »Parched Politics: Iran’s Water Scarcity and the Rising Wave of Discontent
July 12th, 2023
Via Global Policy Journal, commentary on the potential for Iran’s water issues to mobilize a new wave of activism in Iran: Water has long shaped landscapes and civilizations. In the face of water scarcity, escalating concerns regarding the availability of this resource are forming new pathways for political change in the Middle East. With its […]
Read more »Tracing Mining’s Threat to U.S. Waters
July 12th, 2023
Courtesy of The New York Times, a look at mining’s threat to U.S. waters: In the mountain streams of southern British Columbia and northern Montana, a rugged part of the world, fish with misshapen skulls and twisted spines have been caught over the years. Many scientists attribute the malformed creatures and declines in certain fish […]
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