The cause-and-effect relationship between water stress, as desertification or drought, and migration has been recognized by different stakeholders, especially in the Ethiopian Case. Certainly water stress will play out differently in the various parts of the world and will be perceived differently according to the specific ecological, political, economic and [...]

The Niger Delta, located in south Nigeria, is one of the richest regions in Oil in Africa. Despite the richness in natural resources, from 1956 on only Multinational Oil Company contractors and corrupted politicians have been benefiting from oil and gas production. Furthermore, local population -being local economy based on [...]

The industry of the animal based products have significant consequences, first of all consuming a lot of resources and producing high levels of pollution. Very large amounts of water are used in the intensive animal farming, for cleaning the farms, and especially for agriculture. In total, as much as 70% [...]

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change putted into evidence that global climate change is a serious concern for small islands above sea level, especially due to the effects of sea level rise. Within a few decades, small islands in the Pacific and Indian oceans risk being extensively or even completely submerged. [...]

Ilva is a steel producer company founded by Riva family in 1905 in Taranto, South of Italy. It is one of the biggest steel plant in Western Europe, as it employees 12.000 employees and makes profit of billions of euros. Despite several warning from ARPA, the local environmental authority, ILVA never [...]

The Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) National report reveals a not enviable primacy for the province of Ragusa, in Sicily Region, Italy.. In the island 22.3% of the monitored aquifers is above the pollution limits due to an agricultural sector that uses excessively chemicals. The report is [...]

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the Po Valley is one of the most polluted areas in Europe. According to some press sources, Italy is the country in Western Europe with the worst air condition. However, the problem still does not seem to be addressed as it should: Italians [...]

Even the Maldives archipelago has its environmental problems: not only because of the rising sea level, but also because Thilafushi Island has become a dump where the Maldives waste is brought by sea. This island is only 7 km away from the capital city Malè and hundreds of immigrants are [...]

Location: Slovakia, Žilina region, district Dolný Kubín, town Oravský Podzámok, site Široká Case Description: Orava River is a protected Ramsar site, Natura 2000 and part of the protected area Orava. Široká, the part of municipality Oravský Podzámok, is located on the bank of the river. In the City Master Plan, [...]

Gorleben is a community in the north east of Lower Saxony in Germany. Nearby is an intermediate storage facility for nuclear waste. Since 1995, 102 containers with German radioactive waste, which was reprocessed in France and England, were put there in storage aboveground. In addition, there is a pilot mine [...]

The Dakota Access Pipeline is an oil pipeline project realized by Energy Transfer Partners in the USA which is currently completed under huge protests. The pipeline is supposed to transport fracked crude oil from North Dakota to southern Illinois. Energy Transfer Partners states the creation of jobs and that less [...]

At the limits of the city of Zanesville, which is located in Muskingum County in the U.S. state of Ohio, there is a neighborhood of about 25 houses called Coal Run. The houses are located in a heavily polluted area due to the presence of decades old coal mines and [...]

On the 5th of November 2015, the collapse of two tailings dams in Bento Rodrigues of Minas Gerais, a state in southeastern Brazil, released about 60 million liters of mining waste in the Rio Doce river ("Sweet River"). The toxic mud covered the entire surrounding area and through the river [...]

The CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) is established in the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. It declares, that countries and entrepreneurs are allowed to fulfill a part of their required emission reductions through climate protection projects abroad. One project that applied for this status is the set up of pine and eucalyptus [...]

Every German eats on average 22kg tomatoes per year. Germany can only provide 6% of this amount, most of the tomatoes are imported, mostly from the province Almería in Spain. There is an area of 350 square kilometer of greenhouses and plastic foil under which grow tomatoes, pepper, melons and [...]

Nearly 10% of the German energy consumption is gained through lignite mining in Lusatia. In addition to four mining areas (Nochten, Reichwalde, Welzow-Süd, Jänschwalde), there are three power plants (Jänschwalde, Schwarze Pumpe, Boxberg) located in this region. The owner is always a big energy company. In September 2016, the Swedish [...]

Attica is a region that encompasses the city of Athens, the capital of Greece. West Attica is a regional unit which includes the city of Elefsina, the site of the ancient Greek holy city of Elefsis, where the Eleusinian Mysteries used to take place, the adjacent extended industrial area and [...]

Asopos is a river that runs through Boeotia and northern Attica. Its source is in the northern slope of the Kithairon mountain, southwest of Thebes. Its total length is 57 km. It flows downstream along Sykamino, Oropos, Schimatari, Oinofyta, and empties into the South Euboean Gulf. In 479 BC, the [...]

The ‘Skouries’ investment project was planned by Ηellas Gold, a subsidiary mining company of the Canadian Eldorado Gold, to extract gold and copper underground deposits from Skouries mine. Although initially approved by the Greek government as an important investment venture in 2011, it gradually turned to an issue of heavy [...]