In eastern Libya, controlled by a shifting conglomerate of armed groups for more than a decade, critical environmental infrastructure has fallen into disrepair...
WATCH: In Iraq, climate shocks are deeply intertwined with the country's crumbling security. As a journalist, Peter Schwartzstein could observe how the lack of...
WATCH: In this interview, Kishan Khoday, Team Leader for Climate Change, DRR and Resilience in the Arab Region for the United Nations Development Programme...
WATCH: For national defence bodies, climate impacts represent "non-traditional security threats", with which they are often not familiar and not adequately...
WATCH: Climate change plays an exacerbating role in the armed conflict in Iraq. In this video, Iraqi experts explain how climate change impacts such as...
WATCH: Increasing vulnerability of coastal military bases, an opening polar route in the Arctic, and global instability are main threats bringing climate change...
WATCH: In this video, Anders Jägerskog highlights water as a clear example of the linkages between climate and security in the Middle East and North Africa.
WATCH: In this video, Kitty van der Heijden reports first-hand on conflicts resulting from water scarcity in the Nile region and the urgency to utilize...
WATCH: Alice Hill, Former Senior Director for Resilience Policy, US National Security Council, talks about the US defense and national security community’s task...
WATCH: In the Middle East, the consequences of climate change are already a reality of life. The region is one of the most water-stressed areas in the world...
WATCH: In this interview, Dr. Marcus King elaborates on the relevance of climate change for the U.S. defence community and advocates an active exchange between...
As a consequence of severe mismanagement, Yemen’s water availability is declining dramatically. The impacts on the people are unequally distributed, and...
Egypt is currently using more water than its internal renewable resources, mainly based on Nile fresh water inflows. Water stress in Egypt is expected to...
Since the start of deep well drilling in the 1970s, Yemen’s groundwater resources have diminished at a rapid pace - fostered by state subsidies and the absence...
WATCH: Water is being used as a weapon of war on one of Syria’s deadliest battlegrounds, says the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and its local...
WATCH: Water is being used as a weapon of war on one of Syria’s deadliest battlegrounds, says the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and its local...
Water-quality issues form an important part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Despite the efforts of the countries’ leaders to establish peace and to jointly...
Water sharing issues form an important part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The 1990s in particular witnessed extensive efforts to reach a peace agreement...
From the 1960s to the 1990s, tensions among the co-riparian states of the Euphrates-Tigris Basin hampered cooperation over the rivers. Since 1999 , when Turkey...