WISEN WATCH: A citizen science approach to conflict environmental monitoring
Rebekah Harries introduces WISEN WATCH: our new citizen science tool that allows anyone to help us remotely track and assess wartime environmental damage.
Disaster risk reduction during armed conflicts
Countries enduring conflict are hit harder and suffer more deaths when disasters such as storms and earthquakes strike. Rebekah Harries asks whether disaster risk reduction frameworks doing enough to acknowledge this link between conflict and disaster risk?
Do minefields protect wildlife? It’s complicated.
By excluding people, minefields can reduce pressure from human activities. With governments obliged to clear mines and explosive remnants of war, understanding how their presence and removal influences biodiversity is critical. In this post, Dr Franciany Braga-Pereira describes what she and her team discovered studying minefield refugia in Angola.
Webinar | Introducing the WISEN database: towards a global environmental monitoring framework for conflicts
This webinar will introduce CEOBS’ Wartime IncidentS to ENvironment (WISEN) methodology, explore how we have used it for research on Ukraine, Sudan and Iran, discuss how data can be used for different purposes, and consider future opportunities to improve documentation.
Landscape: a human lens on the environmental cost of war
The idea that humanity and the environment are separate facilitates wartime environmental destruction, argue Samira Siddique and Simon Watkins. But it can also help us understand why communities must be at the heart of post-conflict recovery decision-making.
Fossil fuel transition talks must address militaries
As governments gather in Colombia for the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels amid ongoing wars, fragile ceasefires, spiralling military spending and a global energy crisis, Ellie Kinney explains why militaries must be part of any future energy transition framework.
Event report: Exploring the potential and applications of citizen science in areas affected by armed conflicts
Elaine Donderer reports on the first in-person event of the European Citizen Science Association’s new working group on citizen science in areas affected by armed conflicts, which took place at the Association’s 2026 conference at the University of Oulu, Finland.
The due regard principle in IHL: Protecting the environment amid armed conflict
At a time where many are questioning the extent and value of legal protection for the environment during war, Lydia Millar explores the potential of IHL’s due regard rule for minimising harm, and why it’s worth fighting for.