Environment

The Crime Against Txopai

On 25 January 2019, a tailing dam at the Córrego do Feijão iron ore mine suffered a catastrophic failure. When it broke a stream of toxic mud devastated villages and buries more than 300 people in no time. The Pataxó Hã-hã-Hãe, a small indigenous village near Brumadinho, the epicenter of a mining dam collapse, saw […]

With last breaths

Lake Urmia, in northwest Iran, once the largest lake in the Middle East and the sixth-largest saltwater lake on Earth, is rapidly losing water and drying up. It was twice the size of Luxembourg in the 1990s, but intensified droughts and elevated summer temperatures have sped up evaporation. In addition, human factors such as building […]

Evacuation Stranded whale shark in Indonesia

The death of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) occurs almost every year in the coastal areas of West Sumatra Province. “For 2022, this is the first incident at Kincie Salido Beach, South Pesisir Regency,” said BPSPL Padang Conservation Analyst, Hendrisman, Wednesday (5/25/2022). Previously, similar incidents had also occurred in 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, and 2021 on […]

The gradual death of the wetland

The Miankaleh Wetland located in the north of Iran has hosted birds and animals for many years. Today it is in danger of destruction due to lack of attention and proper management. Water shortage and drought on the one hand. On the one hand..unauthorized hunting and hunting..and intentional fires on the one hand..planting and harvesting […]

we live in masai

The Masai is the name given to a largely nomadic people in East Africa, living mainly in Kenya and Tanzania. The Masai managed to preserve their ancient traditions despite growing modern civilization. Due to various causes, such as the decline of grazing land for their livestock and drought, this traditional way of life is under […]

River of Sorrow

Maldah and Murshidabad districts of West Bengal, India have suffered massive riverbank erosion since the 70’s. Every year, During the monsoon, Several villages and agricultural land are lost in the Ganga. According to a study in 2008, More than 700000 people in these two districts have been displaced due to Ganga bank erosion. The river […]

Rob Flood in Jakarta, Indonesia

Jakarta, Indonesia, 07 December 2021: Abandoned mannequins in a place of worship that was hit by a tidal flood in Kampung Pojok, Muara Baru, Jakarta. Rob floods due to overflowing sea water inundated a number of areas in northern Jakarta. Jakarta’s land subsidence, which decreases by 6cm every year, causes tidal flooding to become more […]

Drought

Complaint Project The threshold defined by the UN for water scarcity is 500,000 liters per person per year. A Jordanian citizen receives 8,000 liters of water every two weeks if his house is in the north. Jordan is the second country with the scarcity of this basic resource in the world. Added to these difficulties […]

Enthusiasm in bull race competition and the tears of bulls.

The bull race is an expression of strong desire to win and achieve the dream. It is a bull rice competition at the end of the harvest season in Kerala State of India. This competition is particularly enthusiastic for the people of Malabar.It is better to mention that bulls that run and flee the speed […]