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Marah, a teenage girl from one of Syria’s besieged cities, recently arrived in Switzerland as a refugee, where she is struggling with her first pregnancy and the potential breakup of her family.
Drought is taking its toll on Mono Lake, which is hovering close to a level that endangers its vital bird habitat. Low lake levels also affect air quality and water diversions to Los Angeles.
HAKAI MAGAZINE: Ships are flocking to the Arctic, increasing the risk of a spill in an ill-prepared region. But researchers are testing whether drones can track oil spills – and do the clean-up.
After repelling an offensive led by two hard-line Islamist groups thought to have ties to ISIS, rebels outside the southern city of Daraa are preparing to “finish off” what they see as a possible ISIS attempt to open another front in the war-torn country.
As Armenians across the world commemorated the 101st anniversary of the 1915 Genocide, we visited Bourj Hammoud in Beirut, where Armenians fleeing the horrors in Anatolia built new lives.
A year after the devastating earthquakes in Nepal that left more than 2 million homeless, we visit a mountainous village through the images of photographer Pong Suracheth.
Damascus is facing a housing crisis as displaced Syrians stream into the capital. New government-imposed security regulations targeting the new arrivals are feeding an already vibrant culture of price manipulation and bribery.
Santa Clara County depends heavily on water imported through the Delta, which is why the county’s wholesale water provider may participate in an expensive plan to build new water conveyance tunnels under the Delta.
In Canada’s north, internet is slower and more expensive than anywhere else in the country. Despite recent improvements, northern users say more action is needed before the system grinds to a halt.
For the third stop of our series “Route Mediterranean,” journalist Eric Reidy takes a detour to visit an informal encampment in Torbali,Turkey, where several Syrian families, including children as young as 14, work in the fields to make a living.
After launching an awareness campaign highlighting deteriorating health conditions in Daraya, a Damascus suburb under government siege for more than three years, a group of women hope their efforts will help prevent yet another humanitarian disaster.
The legislative session in Sacramento has seen a number of bills introduced that could have an impact on California’s water supply issues, including the controversial plan to build two Delta tunnels.
CLIMATE NEWS NETWORK: Low oil prices have reduced pressure to exploit Arctic fossil fuels and boosted hopes that the region’s fragile environment and indigenous people may be better protected.
The case of the 800 Sudanese asylum seekers who were deported by Jordan after protesting in front of the UNHCR office has disappeared from media coverage. But nearly five months later many returnees like Hawa Abdo Adam are waiting to be reunited with family members who
A recently approved deal to remove four dams on the Klamath River could yield more water for farmers in the river’s upper basin and lead to a dramatic improvement in local salmon populations.
Journalist Rahaf Haboub grew up in Daraya, a Damascus suburb besieged by pro-government forces for more than three years. She and her family fled in fall 2012 after the government targeted the area with airstrikes and barrel bombs – these are her recollections of those harrowing times.
Europe’s largest onshore wind farm is being built in central Norway. But the project, which will more than double Norway’s wind capacity, lies in the middle of an important reindeer grazing area, leaving Saami herders worried about the impact it might have on their livelihood and traditions.
After being repeatedly accused of sidelining the role and demands of Syrian women at the negotiation table in Geneva, the U.N. established the Syrian Women’s Advisory Board to consult with Staffan de Mistura. But the board’s makeup has caused outrage in some sections of Syrian civil society.
Many farmers contend that the water delivery system that pumps water through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is broken – water to farms and cities must be cut to help fish species, but those species’ numbers are still plummeting. So what’s going on?
Marah, a teenage girl from one of Syria’s besieged cities, has been sharing her stories of life in the war. With her mother and siblings, she left Syria and is now in Switzerland, where she’s dealing with a new marriage, her first pregnancy and the potential breakup of her family.
As one of the world’s most cosmopolitan cities heads to the polls in the NYC presidential primary, U.S. refugee resettlement programs are falling short. Today’s Middle Eastern refugees are not afforded the same acceptance as other communities that have become assimilated features of New York life.
Arctic Deeply’s partner site OpenCanada is featuring excerpts from the finalists in the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. Here is Sheila Watt-Cloutier’s The Right to Be Cold: One Woman’s Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet.
Members of an underground activist network named “Deir Ezzor is Being Slaughtered Silently” have scoured government and ISIS-controlled territories across the oil-rich province and discovered 36 mass graves – allegedly the grisly work of extremist militants and government forces.
HIGH NORTH NEWS: Now in its 20th year, the Arctic Council is due for revitalization. This is the conclusion of two new reports from the think-tanks CSIS in Washington and FNI in Oslo. However, a general consensus about how the organization should look at its next milestone is a long way off.
The small towns of coastal San Mateo county have weathered the drought very differently from most of the rest of Silicon Valley. Without large water projects, reservoirs or utilities to rely on, the fish, farms and people share limited water resources from creeks and aquifers.
During the early years of the Syrian conflict, Mersin was considered “the best place to be Syrian in Turkey” and thousands of middle-class Syrians fled to the port city. With few allowed to work and their resources now exhausted, most now struggle to survive. Mersin is the second stop in our series “Route Mediterreanean”.
As battles rage between ISIS and al-Nusra Front in Yarmouk refugee camp, civilians are being caught in the line of fire. With supplies in the camp running low, activists now fear a humanitarian crisis and have launched a social media campaign calling for a temporary cease-fire.
Some California farmers will be getting 100 percent of their requested water allocation this year, but others only 5 percent. Here’s a look at why there are such stark differences in allocations, despite a much wetter year, and what this means for farmers and the environment.
Backstreet doctors in the border town of Reyhanli and elsewhere in southern Turkey are caring for injured rebel fighters. Funded by armed opposition groups, the network of underground hospitals is patching up militants and sending them back to fight.
Maribeth Murray, executive director of the Arctic Institute of North America, says a Pan-Arctic Observing Network could help fill gaps in our understanding of the Arctic and lessen the environmental, social and economic impacts of rapid Arctic change.
Urban ‘ghettoization’ due to host governments housing refugees in shelters in impoverished neighborhoods has further impeded their social integration in European cities. In Germany, private initiatives are finding ways of creating an open-door culture through flat-shares.
As part of our ongoing series “Childhood Under Attack,” this week we present the story of a Syrian boy struggling to find a new home after Islamic State members brutally sawed off two of his limbs and he and his family were forced to flee.
The thick beds of kelp growing near Sisimiut, Greenland, inspired an enterprising teacher to launch a new business and revive a traditional food. “Meet the North,” a series that ventures into the lives of some of the 4 million people who call the Arctic home, learns about the value of seaweed.
As part of our ongoing series “Childhood Under Attack,” this week we present the story of a Syrian boy struggling to find a new home after Islamic State members brutally sawed off two of his limbs and he and his family were forced to flee.
In late August, a cruise ship loaded with more than 1,600 people will attempt to sail through the Northwest Passage. A training exercise in Alaska this week will investigate how the coast guards and cruise operator respond to a situation that requires a mass rescue in remote, frigid waters.
The leak of millions of documents from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca shows how Syrian companies and regime insiders were able to hide their assets in offshore companies. One of the worst offenders is none other than Bashar al-Assad’s cousin Rami Makhlouf, the wealthiest man in Syria.
In light of leaked E.U. plans to return 80,000 Afghan asylum seekers, we explore the conditions that forced civilians to flee in increased numbers in 2015 – deemed the bloodiest year since 2001 – and the limited protection they are offered due to Afghanistan’s post-conflict status.
While Macedonian police clash with refugees protesting at Idomeni and returns under the E.U.–Turkey deal slow due to a lack of clarity, researchers at the Forced Migration Review argue that “there is much about earlier migration crises that today’s European policymakers might profitably recall”.
Jabal Turkman in northern Latakia has been a battlefield since the beginning of the Syrian conflict. But this past week, the last remaining villagers fled, leaving more than 20 villages abandoned. Turkmen villagers now worry the Assad government will attempt to repopulate the mountain with loyalists.
Embarking in Tripoli, Lebanon, where desperate Syrian refugees have sought shelter in embattled neighborhoods reminiscent of the war at home, journalist Eric Reidy traverses one of several refugee trails that ends in Idomeni, Greece. Tripoli is the first stop in our series “Route Mediterranean”.
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