Region - Middle East, page 2

A view of Earth from the International Space Station.

Geoengineer the Planet? More Scientists Now Say It Must Be an Option

By Fred Pearce

Ethiopian farmers examine the results of a trial of wheat varieties.

How Crowdsourcing Seeds Can Help Farmers Adapt to Climate Change

By Virginia Gewin

A worker collects sand at a mine near Port au Prince, Haiti in April 2014.

Development

The Hidden Environmental Toll of Mining the World’s Sand

By Fred Pearce

A research diver looks for signs of stony coral tissue loss disease in Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

As Disease Ravages Coral Reefs, Scientists Scramble for Solutions

By Ret Talbot

Trucks hauling coal at a Chinese-financed open-pit mine in Pakistan's Sindh province in May 2018.

Analysis

How China’s Big Overseas Initiative Threatens Global Climate Progress

By Isabel Hilton

Sparing vs Sharing: The Great Debate Over How to Protect Nature

By Fred Pearce

Mexicali, Mexico / Calexico, California, United States

From High Above, A New Way of Seeing Our Urban Planet

By Katherine Bagley

Landslides at the construction site of the Ituango Dam in Colombia forced the evacuation of at least 25,000 people in April.

Analysis

After a Long Boom, an Uncertain Future for Big Dam Projects

By Jacques Leslie

A young boy herds his goats in the Ghat District of Libya, which has been converted largely to desert in the last 100 years.

Redrawing the Map: How the World’s Climate Zones Are Shifting

By Nicola Jones

Johannesburg has an estimated 6 to 10 million trees, mostly non-native species brought in from around the world.

Beetle Mania: The Nasty Insect That Is Killing the Trees of Johannesburg

By Adam Welz

A fisherman aboard a French trawler sorts through a catch of flounder and mackerel.

Interview

A Global Ban on Fishing on the High Seas? The Time Is Now

By Richard Schiffman

E360 VIDEO CONTEST WINNER - SECOND PLACE

For Iranian Villagers, A Dam Uproots a Rural Way of Life

The International Maritime Organization has set a 2020 deadline to drastically cut sulfur content in ship fuels.

At Last, the Shipping Industry Begins Cleaning Up Its Dirty Fuels

By Maria Gallucci

Fish tanks in the basement of a home in Erie, Colorado containing dozens of threatened species, including some that are extinct in the wild.

Basement Preservationists: Can Hobbyists Save Rare Fish from Extinction?

By Adam Welz

How Seeds from War-Torn Syria Could Help Save American Wheat

By Mark Schapiro

By 2023, Orange County, California's wastewater treatment system will generate 130 million gallons of drinking water a day.

Where Water is Scarce, Communities Turn to Reusing Wastewater

By Jacques Leslie

Workers install rooftop solar in the Chinese city of Wuhan, which has joined with cities across the globe to fight climate change.

To Move Paris Accord Forward, Bring Cities and Companies On Board

By Daniel C. Esty and Peter Boyd

Climate Connection: Unraveling the Surprising Ecology of Dust

By Jim Robbins

A Callery pear tree on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Interview

How Listening to Trees Can Help Reveal Nature’s Connections

By Diane Toomey

Floating Solar: A Win-Win for Drought-Stricken Lakes in U.S.

Floating solar panel arrays are increasingly being deployed in places as diverse as Brazil and Japan. One prime spot for these “floatovoltaic” projects could be the sunbaked U.S. Southwest, where they could produce clean energy and prevent evaporation in major man-made reservoirs.

By Philip Warburg

What Would a Global Warming Increase of 1.5 Degrees Be Like?

The Paris climate conference set the ambitious goal of finding ways to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, rather than the previous threshold of 2 degrees. But what would be the difference between a 1.5 and 2 degree world? And how realistic is such a target?

By Fred Pearce