Ονομάζομαι Β. Καρακάσογλου και είμαι 20 χρονών. Σπουδάζω στο Πανεπιστήμιο της Αθήνας. Θα σας μιλήσω για μια περιβαλλοντική αδικία που πήγε να διαπραχθεί στο μέρος που μου αρέσει με την παρέα μου να πηγαίνω για τα καλοκαιρινά μου μπάνια, την περιοχή Λαύριο- Σούνιο- Κερατέα. Η περιοχή αυτή, που ανήκει γεωγραφικά [...]

During the last couple of years, the growing number of logging operations in Białowieża forests has been noticed. The Białowieża forest in under Poland protection, also in the Natura 2000 network and the UNESCO World Heritage list, which area covers nearly 1500km2 of the Poland eastern border with Belarus. 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. A total of 22 dams and 19 hydropower plants are to be built along the Euphrates and the Tigris, [...]

In recent years, phosphorite mining has been discussed in Estonia again. The European Commission has declared phosphorus to be a critical resource for the European Union. The largest phosphorite deposit in the EU is located in Estonia, near town Rakvere. Many Estonians still remember the "phosphorite war, culminating in 1987 [...]

In its rich flora and fauna, the Saranda region in India has attracted many mining companies because of its large iron ore depository. There are dozens of mining companies operating in Saranda, which are increasingly mining over the years. The Union Ministry of Steel has set a target to mine [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The thermoelectric central project in the site of Punta Alcalde in the city of Huasco, Chile includes two generating units with a total installed capacity of 740 MW. The population of Huasco was raising the alarm since they are already suffering high contamination induced by the petcoke fuel used by [...]

In November 2010, the Colombian National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) granted the Colombian Petroleum Company (Ecopetrol) and the companies Repsol (Spain) and YPF (Argentina) a license to explore and exploit potential sources of gas in two areas of the San Andres Archipelago, Providencia and Santa Catalina. Located in the south-western Caribbean, [...]

Several companies are currently planning to explore for gas and oil in the Balearic Sea (Gulf of Valencia and Gulf of Lion). This prospection involves areas of the Spanish coast: Balearic Islands, Community of Valencia and Catalonia. Currently in the exploration phase, Cairn Energy (though its subsidiary company Capricorn Spain [...]

The Kaliningrad Nuclear Power Plant or also referred as Baltic Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant under construction 13 kilometers away from Neman, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. Russia plans to have 26 nuclear power plant units by 2030, seven of them are already under construction. The nuclear plant in [...]

Le problematiche ambientali, come l’inquinamento, lo spreco alimentare, la produzione di rifiuti, sono percepite da molte persone come fenomeni astratti, che non ci riguardano da vicino. Per questo ci è facile chiudere gli occhi, dicendoci che non siamo né i responsabili, né le vittime di tali questioni. Eppure c’è qualcosa [...]

Rail Baltic is an international rail connection project, which will connect the three Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) to the rest of Europe, service on the new high-speed railway is expected to start in 2026. The project has brought with it both a positive and a negative response. Positively is [...]

Spiaggia incontaminata, sabbia corallina, foreste rigogliose, mare cristallino. Thilafushi non conosce tutta questa bellezza. Perché quella che fino a 25 anni fa era una splendida laguna naturale è diventata una discarica a cielo aperto nel cuore delle Maldive: montagne di rifiuti e fumi che offuscano l’aria è tutto ciò che [...]

Quella raccontata dalla ONG svizzera Public Eye, nata con l’obiettivo di osservare criticamente l’impatto che la Svizzera e le sue imprese hanno sui paesi poveri, è una storia di convenienza, ma ad alto prezzo. L’accusa dell’associazione è molto grave: alcune società petrolifere elvetiche stanno “inondando” l’Africa occidentale di carburanti di [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Anche la natura, purtroppo, vive di paradossi: la Foresta Amazzonica, polmone verde di circa 6,5 milioni di chilometri quadrati e riserva inestimabile di aria pulita per l’intero pianeta, è oggi una delle aree verdi più minacciate al mondo. Ciò che mette a serio rischio la biodiversità dell’ecosistema più ricco e [...]