Since the late 1970s, the Turkish government has been planning the South Anatolia project (GAP project). The goal is to generate energy and respond to the increasing needs of the country. A total of 22 dams and 19 hydropower plants are to be built along the Euphrates and the Tigris, making it one of the [...]
Since the late 1970s, the Turkish government has been planning the South Anatolia project (GAP project). The goal is to generate energy and respond to the increasing needs of the country. [3] A total of 22 dams and 19 hydropower plants are to be built along the Euphrates and the Tigris, making it one of [...]
On 3 March 2016, the environmental activist Berta Cáceres was found dead. Murdered in her apartment in La Esperanza. She was known across the borders for her activism for social and environmental justice. Capitalism was her great opponent. She wanted the Hondurans themselves to determine their lives and to protect nature according to their ideas. [...]
On a country of hundreds of island, spread over 29 coral reefs in the South Pacific and barely two meters above sea level, the climate change cannot to be overlooked. For decades the sea level has been increasing by centimeters. Even the optimistic predictions do not give the Marshall Islands any chance: the ocean will [...]
On a country of hundreds of island, spread over 29 coral reefs in the South Pacific and barely two meters above sea level, the climate change cannot to be overlooked. [3] The sea was already devouring the Marshall Islands, bit by bit, while 196 countries at the climate summit in Paris were still discussing how [...]
When Berta Cáceres received the Goldman award for her life as an environmental activist in 2015 and her fight against the dam Agua Zarca in Hondura, she described the worries associated with it. [5] Her opponents followed her and threatened to kidnap and kill her as well as her family. She knew about her fate. [...]
Before Myanmar became a democratically governed country, the previous dictatorial government concluded an agreement with the state’s Chinese Power Investment Corporation (CPI): the construction of the huge Myitsone Dam. The project area, however, is only short distance to a reconciliation of two rivers, which is recognized as a sacred place in Myanmar. Completing the dam [...]
The Victoria Lake ensures the livelihood of approximately 2 million people and provides drinking water, food, but also energy and transport to almost 22 million inhabitants of the region. Therefore the water quality is the most fundamental factor when it comes to the improvement of livelihood of the growing population in this area. Despite all, [...]
The report “The poisoned island” by Marius Münstermann and Christian Werner draws attention to the resource-rich island of Marinduque. It shows how the mining industry destroys biodiversity and how it makes the environment and the people sick. The produced sludge in the process of extracting the precious metals is nothing but waste in which residues [...]
The report “The poisoned island” by Marius Münstermann and Christian Werner draws attention to the resource-rich island of Marinduque. It shows how the mining industry destroys biodiversity and how it makes the environment and the people sick. Through the second half of the twentieth century copper, gold and silver were promoted on Marinduque. Metals we [...]
