In rural northwest Iraq, employment opportunities outside of farming are rare. Without sufficient water supply to maintain these livelihoods, the so-called...
Climate change severely impacts water supply, food security, migration, and natural resource management in the Levant. The Cascades workshop held in Istanbul...
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has been under construction since 2011 and has had serious political implications for Ethiopia’s relations with Sudan and...
In eastern Libya, controlled by a shifting conglomerate of armed groups for more than a decade, critical environmental infrastructure has fallen into disrepair...
More than 11,300 people are confirmed to have died in the floods that struck eastern Libya on early September. Humanitarian aid deliveries and rescue missions...
Amid worries of the Qosh Tepa canal causing large-scale damage to farmland in the region, experts say crisis can be avoided by including Afghanistan in...
In the African continent, where both slow and fast onset climate events undermine economic and political stability, the linkage between climate change and...
One man’s mission to remove trash from the polluted river in Baghdad has inspired a nationwide movement that shows how environmental efforts inspire peace.
A regional consultation launched by OSCE and adelphi brought together stakeholders from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan to...
The destruction of a dam across the North Crimean Canal is the most recent entry in the Water Conflict Chronology, a compendium of violent acts related to water...
With the Taliban back in power in Afghanistan, and with the Afghan people’s climate-induced humanitarian needs as acute as ever, the need to promote resilience...
Abror Gafurov, a hydrologist at GFZ-Potsdam, the national research centre for earth sciences in Germany, tells The Third Pole what the latest research shows...
Water insecurity in Jordan is on the rise as the country's limited natural water availability is further stressed by intensifying water use, climate change...
Even as Pakistan's questions about Indian hydropower projects went unanswered, both sides at the Indus Waters Treaty meeting showed an intention to engage.
VIENNA, 23 February 2021 – Opportunities for transboundary co-operation to address climate-related security risks in South-Eastern Europe were virtually...
Extreme weather events such as droughts and floods are expected to become more severe under future climate conditions. This implies a concern for policymakers...