Climate & Environments

The mud that’s killing Gabès

How a byproduct from Tunisia’s fertiliser industry has brought environmental disaster to an ecologically crucial stretch of its southern coastline—and sparked a protest movement to try to stop it

“All that glitters is not gold”

A new wave of luxury resorts is soaking up limited water resources in the already drought-prone Italian South

After the August floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Translator’s Karachi-based contributing editor and journalist Sanam Maher, looks at BBC Urdu’s coverage of recent flooding in Pakistan.

Cracks beneath the surface

Why West Java’s tremors – felt from the city of Bandung to Bekasi – demand urgent attention to Indonesia’s fault lines

With food waste, the personal is political

In a personal but wide-ranging article for the Romanian online platform Scena9, the journalist Oana Filip explores the thorny issue of food waste. While the piece focuses on Filip’s home

Following the flowers in Yemen

A journalist follows Yemen’s nomadic beekeepers as they hold the pressures of climate, deforestation and war at bay Recommended by: Abdirahim Saeed The thorny Sidr tree, scattered throughout Yemen, is

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