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Afghanistan: Afghanistan’s Mines under Taliban Contracts: Short-Term Revenues, Long-Term Costs

Sep 4, 2025 | Kazim Homayoun
Hasht-e-Subh Daily

Since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in 2021, the group’s Ministry of Mines and Petroleum has signed more than 205 mining contracts with domestic…

Afghanistan: UN Says Quake-Hit Areas in Afghanistan Contaminated by Explosive Ordnance

Sep 4, 2025
KabulNow

The United Nations has warned that parts of eastern Afghanistan hit by last week’s deadly earthquake remain contaminated with explosive ordnance, further complicating rescue and…

Syria: Severe Drought Threatens Food Security across the Middle East, Devastating Syria’s Fragile Recovery

Sep 4, 2025
Kurdistan24

A historic drought gripping Syria and the broader Eastern Mediterranean is decimating crops, draining rivers and reservoirs, and intensifying food insecurity, threatening millions in a…

China/Taiwan: Taiwan Accuses China of Breaching International Law over Drilling

Sep 4, 2025 | Helen Davidson
Guardian

Taiwan’s government has accused China of breaching international law by drilling for oil and gas inside Taiwan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and immediately demanded it…

Iran: Iran's Water Crisis: A Nexus of Environmental, Political, and Security Challenges

Sep 4, 2025 | Fatemeh Aman
Future Center

Iran grapples with a water crisis that has evolved from an environmental challenge into a political emergency. The situation unfolds against a backdrop of mounting…

Economic and Political Fragility and Insecurity: A Climate Triple Threat in South Sudan

Sep 3, 2025 | Rachel Stromsta

Among the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change, South Sudan’s crisis is only expected to worsen, as the country lacks the requisite…

Transboundary Water Security in a Warming World: Conflict Risks, Cooperation Pathways, and Policy Imperatives

Sep 3, 2025 | Ashok Swain

Water security—the reliable availability of an acceptable quantity and quality of water for health, livelihoods, ecosystems, and production—has emerged as one of the defining challenges…

Three Reasons Why the Climate Crisis Must Reshape How We Think about War

Sep 3, 2025 | Duncan Depledge

The relationship between war and climate change is complex. But here are three reasons why the climate crisis must reshape how we think about war.

How Unexploded Bombs Cause Environmental Damage – and Why Climate Change Exacerbates the Problem

Sep 3, 2025 | Sarah Njeri

There are a record number of conflicts raging around the world – from Ukraine and Gaza to Sudan and Myanmar. Alongside their devastating human toll,…

Afghanistan: Afghanistan Fights Opium Poppy Cultivation [Video]

Sep 3, 2025
NHK WORLD-JAPAN

Afghanistan's poppies account for an estimated 80 percent of the world's opium. The Taliban have banned cultivation, but its efforts to eradicate the crop face…

Afghanistan/Tajikistan: The Tajikistan–Afghanistan Border Clash Alarmed Regional Security

Sep 3, 2025
SpecialEurasia

A firefight broke out on August 24, 2025, between Tajik border troops and Taliban forces near the Panj River in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province, across from…

Sherri Goodman named Distinguished Fellow at Atlantic Council

Sep 3, 2025 | Atlantic Council

The Atlantic Council announced today that Sherri Goodman has been named a distinguished fellow with both the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security —through its…

Water: TRENDS Conference Focuses on Water as a Critical Component of Peace and Development

Sep 3, 2025
TRENDS

On the first day of TRENDS Research & Advisory’s Fifth Conference on Sustainable Water Security, three main sessions discussed the challenges and opportunities related to…

Egypt/Ethiopia/Sudan: Sudan, Egypt Reject Wider Nile Basin Role in Ethiopia Dam Dispute

Sep 3, 2025
Sudan Tribune

Sudan and Egypt on Wednesday rejected attempts to include other Nile Basin countries in their long-running dispute with Ethiopia over its massive dam on the…

Ecocide and Resistance in Palestine

Sep 2, 2025 | Mazin Qumsiyeh

As a Palestinian scientist and ecologist deeply rooted in Palestine’s landscapes and communities, the author bears witness to a catastrophic unfolding—a systematic assault on our…

CALL FOR ARTISTIC SUBMISSIONS: Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding

Sep 2, 2025 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association and the University of Ottawa

The Arts Initiative of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association® (EnPAx®) and the University of Ottawa are delighted to announce the call for artistic contributions for the Fourth…

Afghanistan: Women Mushroom Farmers in Kabul Seek Cold Storages

Sep 2, 2025 | Sonita Azizi
Pajhwok Afghan News

A number of women in Kabul, working with diligent hands and hopeful hearts to cultivate mushrooms using straw, lime and bran, say they need cold…

Afghanistan: Afghan Activists Urge UN to Halt Hazara Displacement and Land Seizures

Sep 1, 2025
ShiaWaves

Over 100 Afghan civil society groups and human rights activists have called on the United Nations to intervene urgently to stop the systematic displacement and…

Bangladsesh: Govt. Prioritizes Swift Compensation for Victims of Human-Elephant Conflict: Rizwana

Sep 1, 2025
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha

Environment, Forest and Climate Change Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan today reaffirmed the government's commitment to promoting peaceful human-elephant coexistence, saying that streamlining and revising current…

Afghanistan: Eastern Afghanistan Earthquakes Threaten Livestock Farming and Family Income Sources

Sep 1, 2025
Hasht-E Subh

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned that the devastating earthquakes in eastern Afghanistan severely threaten the livestock sector.

Afghanistan/Tajikistan: Chinese Gold Mining Provokes Battle between Taliban and Tajikistan

Sep 1, 2025 | Dmytro Shumlianskyi
MILITARNYI

The first military clash in three years between Tajik border guards and TDF militants took place on the border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan. The clash…

Afghanistan: Country Director

Sep 1, 2025 | People in Need

People in Need (PIN) is a Czech NGO providing relief and development assistance in over 20 countries worldwide. Formed in 1992, PIN has grown into…

DRC: Site Director, Okapi Wildlife Reserve

Sep 1, 2025 | Wildlife Conservation Society

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has been active in the OWR for more than 30 years, supporting its creation, and subsequently working closely with ICCN…

DRC: Rotational Associate / Manager (Renewable)

Sep 1, 2025 | One Acre Fund

Founded in 2006, One Acre Fund equips 5.5 million smallholder farmers to make their farms more productive. Across nine countries that together are home to…

Syria/Lebanon/Turkey: Food System Strengthening (FSS) Lead, Türkiye, Syria and Lebanon

Sep 1, 2025 | Welthungerhilfe

The position is to be filled as soon as possible, with an initial contract duration of one year. There are very good prospects for an…

Niger: Expert Principal en Évaluation Environnementale et Sociale

Sep 1, 2025 | Société de Développement International

La mission du Consultant porte sur la conception d’un projet d’électrification et d’accès à l’électricité dont le financement pourrait être mobilisé, justifiant les études complètes…

Niger: Expert en Électrification Rurale

Sep 1, 2025 | Société de Développement International

Uganda: Agronomist - Karamoja - Ugandan Nationals Only

Sep 1, 2025 | Insieme si può

Insieme Si Puo' - ISP in Africa is a non-profit making organization based in Uganda since 1983, it has two territorial offices in Kampala and Moroto,…

Uganda: Advisor for Environmental Peacebuilding (m/f/x)

Sep 1, 2025 | AGIAMONDO e.V.

AGIAMONDO e.V. is the personnel service of German Catholics for development cooperation. In the Civil Peace Service, we offer professionals the opportunity for meaningful service in…

Sudan/South Sudan: Sudan Orders Oil Shutdown; South Sudan Exports at Risk

Aug 31, 2025
Radio Tamazuj

Sudan’s Ministry of Energy and Petroleum has ordered an emergency shutdown of oil facilities in the Heglig area near the border with South Sudan following…