A year of escalating conflict across the Middle East has had a range of direct and reverberating consequences for the region’s environment. In this post we identify the current and emerging trends that are threatening human health and often fragile and degraded ecosystems.
Successive US governments have been reluctant to come clean over the human and environmental cost of the secret war in Laos. This report shows how declassified spy satellite imagery can now help us track potential dioxin exposures from the use of Agent Orange in the country.
The war in Yemen has profoundly affected solid waste management, increasing open dumping and with it risks to the environment and public health. In this post, Hanna Schulten explores how satellites can identify dumpsites and so help inform remedial measures and waste management policies.
As part of the continual refinement of our remote assessment methodology for our Ukraine incident database, we often integrate new features and tools. Rob Watson and Jay Lindle introduce our latest project – a map of how vulnerable Ukraine’s groundwater is to pollution caused by the conflict.
We are delighted to announces our newly expanded Board of Trustees, including four new members appointed in July. The Board now comprises seven members with expertise from across the charitable, public and international development sectors.
Climate change is already affecting areas contaminated by landmines and other explosive remnants of war. Linsey Cottrell explains the key issues, and how the mine action sector should prepare and adopt newly published environmental guidance.
Part 1 of a joint open source investigation by the Ukrainian Archive and CEOBS into the recurring Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Kremenchuk Oil Refinery, which focuses on air pollution and examines the applicable legal framework.
CEOBS has been remotely tracking and assessing environmentally-relevant incidents in Ukraine since February 2022. We share our data with relevant stakeholders, it informs our research and advocacy activities, and it is our hope that the dataset will also contribute to Ukraine’s green recovery. We’ve now used it to create an interactive map.
