Israeli attacks on four oil facilities in Tehran have exposed millions of Iranians to harm. In this post we explore the attacks and unpack the health and environmental risks faced by the civilian population.
Rapid overview of emerging environmental issues and risks in Iran and the wider region from Operation Epic Fury. Three days in and we’re already seeing pollution incidents that are placing people and ecosystems at risk of acute and chronic harm.
As governments turn their attention to the intersections between nature, peace and security, civil society needs to speak up if we’re to avoid the dead-end securitisation of the climate crisis; to do so, argues Doug Weir, many of us will need to learn a new language.
Grace Alexander explains why exempting military products from the EU’s new Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) undermines the bloc’s industrial decarbonisation goals and demonstrates a disconnect between its climate and defence policies.
The ICC has published a new policy on how environmental considerations can be integrated into its approach to humanity’s most serious crimes. Lydia Millar examines what the policy says, how it could contribute to accountability processes, and why it’s not the end of the story.
There is significant concern over the impact that Russia’s war against Ukraine has had on Black Sea dolphin and porpoise populations. Regional experts have proposed a recovery plan but as Linas Svolkinas explains, effective mitigation efforts require that we first understand conflict-linked threats.
NPA and CEOBS study examining the roll-out of the Green Field Tool across NPA mine action programmes in Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Ukraine, Vietnam, Yemen, and Zimbabwe. The findings highlight both progress and challenges in integrating environmental and climate risk assessments into operations.
Gold is helping fuel the war in Sudan, and its extraction is causing environmental degradation and chemical pollution that threatens human health. In this report, Jonathan Walsh investigates whether open-source remote sensing can help us track Sudan’s artisanal gold mines.
