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In the third installment of our “Bags and Belongings” series, in which we ask refugees what they packed in their bags and what they left behind, we meet Tareq al-Jabr, who fled military service in Syria and is working to publish his first poetry book in Italy.
In the third installment of our “Bags and Belongings” series, in which we ask refugees what they packed in their bags and what they left behind, we meet Tareq al-Jabr, who fled military service in Syria and is working to publish his first poetry book in Italy.
In case you missed a few favorites, we rounded up some of the popular reads from this year on Water Deeply about the California drought and water issues in the West.
We collected the best stories on refugees from 2016, as selected by refugee and migration experts and the editors of Refugees Deeply.
This year saw more refugees displaced and more people dying at sea than ever before. We look back at the major milestones and significant policy shifts of 2016.
In the second installment of our “Bags and Belongings” series, in which we ask refugees what they packed in their bags and what they left behind, we meet Mustafa Awad, a Syrian badminton coach from Idlib who recently arrived in Athens with his wife and three children.
The drought continues to impact California economically, politically and ecologically. Here’s a look at the most significant recent developments that will shape the year ahead.
Rising temperatures, dropping oil prices and tightening ties between the United States and Canada all helped create some of the Arctic’s most noteworthy happenings in 2016. Here’s a recap.
In the second installment of our “Bags and Belongings” series, in which we ask refugees what they packed in their bags and what they left behind, we meet Mustafa Awad, a Syrian badminton coach from Idlib who recently arrived in Athens with his wife and three children.
Polar bears are prized for very different reasons across cultures, as Michael Engelhard explains in this excerpt from his new book, “Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon.”
With the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program more than $20 billion in debt and the Golden State paying more in premiums than it receives in funding, researchers explain how it could fund its own flood program.
Featuring footage shot by refugees last year, the upcoming Frontline documentary “Exodus” uncovers rarely seen aspects of the migrant trail to Europe. We speak to James Bluemel, the film’s director, about what happens when refugees get to tell their own stories.
Some of the leading experts on health in Syria discuss the dire situation in eastern Aleppo and what to expect now that the city has fallen under government control.
As 2016 draws to an end and many of us head home for the holiday season, Syrian refugees are traveling for a very different reason – to find safety and a new home. We asked some of these men, women and children what they packed in their bags and what they left behind.
As 2016 draws to an end and many of us head home for the holiday season, Syrian refugees are traveling for a very different reason – to find safety and a new home. We asked some of these men, women and children what they packed in their bags and what they left behind.
From the deal’s potential impact on the relationship between the two countries to popular misconceptions about Arctic drilling ventures, Heather Exner-Pirot breaks down this week’s announcements.
Women being held in Syria’s government prisons report psychological abuse, sexual assault and torture. But for many, the emotional and physical suffering they experience after their release is even worse.
As winter sets in, more than a thousand migrants are taking shelter in an abandoned train depot in the Serbian capital. Photojournalist Diego Cupolo meets the people trapped between closed E.U. borders.
The decision has been welcomed by conservationists, but has also been described by northern leaders as heavy-handed, with complaints that the opinions of local communities were excluded from the decision-making process.
Climate change is already impacting California’s water. We talk with climate scientist Juliet Christian-Smith and state regulator Max Gomberg about what California needs to do to be climate resilient.
From “Christmas treeplomacy” to friendly disputes over whether Santa Claus would call Canada, Greenland or Lapland home, there are many seasonal reminders of how we’re all connected – across borders and among social groups.
From food security to Inuit activism, from tourism to natural resource development, here are the 10 stories you read, shared and engaged with most in the past year.
Join us on Wednesday for the first of Refugees Deeply’s live talks, when we’ll take you behind the scenes of our “Manufacture of Hatred” investigation and talk to experts from the United Nations and others to get the bigger picture on xenophobia and propaganda.
SACRAMENTO BEE – President Obama signed a new national water infrastructure bill that has provisions affecting California, which some fear could harm the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Rebel-held Aleppo was the first casualty of President-elect Donald Trump’s emerging world order. Here, Annia Ciezadlo explains what to expect next in Syria.
In the second of a series of interviews with private-sector leaders who pledged to help address the refugee crisis, we speak to Jane Meseck of Microsoft Philanthropies about the technology company’s work with refugees.
Join us on Tuesday for Water Deeply’s second live lunchtime chat. We’ll be talking to guests Juliet Christian-Smith and Max Gomberg about climate change and the future of California water.
A new Canadian Coast Guard research ship will be named after 19th-century British naval officer and Arctic explorer John Franklin – but is that really a good idea?
At the 11th hour, the Public Policy Institute of California hopes to rekindle interest in building one water diversion tunnel in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta instead of two. But it might be too late to shift course.
Based in Bozeman, Montana, Headwaters Economics is helping communities across the Western U.S. that are in the “wildland-urban interface” to develop fire resiliency in their planning processes.
Hundreds of thousands of families fleeing Boko Haram are now stranded in a remote and harsh border region, beyond the reach of humanitarian aid. Photojournalist Ashley Hamer documents the challenges facing the displaced who have found themselves in the Lake Chad Basin.
For moderate, unarmed rebels, as well as anyone wanted by the government, the rapid and brutal offensive to retake east Aleppo is a sign of what’s to come elsewhere in Syria.
This year saw record-setting Arctic temperatures and the continued shrinking of sea ice – and, perhaps most concerning, the warming trend is now being felt in the winter, too, as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration end-of-year report confirms.
Syria’s coastal mountain region is challenging fighting terrain for the opposition groups in the area, made only more difficult by Russia’s intervention on behalf of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.
Our in-depth investigation uncovers the anti-refugee propaganda machine that fostered xenophobia in Hungary, derailed the E.U. response to the refugee crisis and is spreading to the Czech Republic and beyond.
After three years under siege, children in Eastern Ghouta are forced to steal and beg for their survival. To make matters worse, those who are caught are subjected to Jaish al-Islam’s harsh judicial system – where the punishment can be prison or physical labour.
Historians frustrated by simplistic comparisons between refugee crises past and present have set up a platform to delve deeper into historical parallels and differences. Its founders talk to Judith Vonberg about the importance of history for understanding the present.
The latest in our “Experts to Watch” series highlights thought leaders who are examining the economics of California’s water, including water pricing mechanisms and large infrastructure projects.
Jannie Staffansson became an environmental chemist so people would listen to her and to Saami elders about environmental issues. Now she’s a steady voice for Indigenous rights at international climate meetings. We spoke to her as part of our “Emerging Leaders” series.
Five state agencies in California have collaborated to come up with a draft plan aimed at improving California’s long-term water conservation efforts beyond emergency regulations as California’s drought is now in its sixth year.
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