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New NASA Maps Will Help Liberia Chart Course for a Sustainable Future

Mar 22, 2021 | Kiley Price

Within Liberia’s borders lies one of the last strongholds of intact forests in West Africa. But as Liberia’s economy recovers following years of civil war, experts fear that these…


Call for Proposals: Digital Technologies for Environmental Peacebuilding: Sustaining Peace in the Digital Age

Mar 19, 2021 | Environmental Peacebuilding Association and UN Environment Programme

In the span of only a few decades, new big data ecosystems and a combination of frontier technologies, including social media, artificial intelligence, blockchain, earth…


Sudan: Sudan to Develop Gold Mines Once Linked to Warlord’s Family

Mar 15, 2021 | Mohammed Alamin, Bloomberg

Sudan dispatched a research team to revitalize a network of gold mines in Darfur previously linked to the family of the country’s most powerful militia…


Liberia: Economics of Nature: Mapping Liberia's Ecosystems to Understand Their Value

Mar 15, 2021 | Sofie Bates, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Conservation scientist Trond Larsen and his team trekked through a remote forest in Liberia, recording the plants, animals, and insects that they saw. They noted…


South Sudan: South Sudan Integrates Environmental Protection with Hydrocarbon Exploration

Feb 24, 2021 | Charné Hundermark, Africa Oil & Power

Despite holding the third-largest oil reserves in sub-Saharan Africa – estimated at 3.5 billion barrels – only 30% of South Sudan has been explored to…


DRC: First Minerals Exported from DRC with Blockchain

Feb 24, 2021 | MINING.com

Minexx has exported minerals with full financial transparency from the Democratic Republic of Congo, by processing $250k of blockchain certified payments – a first for…


Leverage COVID-19 Data Collection Networks for Environmental Peacebuilding

Feb 7, 2021 | Carsten Pran

Environmental peacebuilding could benefit from COVID-era data innovation. A well-documented obstacle environmental peacebuilders face is a lack of shared, empirical datasets among parties engaged in, recovering from,…


Sudan/South Sudan: Sudan and South Sudan Sign Oil Production Agreement

Jan 18, 2021 | Construction Review Online

East African countries Sudan and South Sudan have signed a number of agreements that involve oil production in the two countries. The countries have agreed…


Liberia: Government of Liberia Launches Processes Leading to Digitization and Systematic Land Titling

Jan 18, 2021 | Obediah Johnson, FrontPage Africa

In a bid to help curtail the growing wave of land disputes and boost revenue generation in the country, the Government of Liberia (GOL), through…


South Sudan: South Sudan Resumes Environmental Audit in Oil-Field Areas

Jan 14, 2021 | Xinhua

South Sudan on Thursday resumed its plan to boost environmental audit in oil-producing regions following public uproar over poor waste management. Puot Kang Chol, Petroleum…


Myanmar: Myanmar to Launch Digital Land Database

Jan 14, 2021 | Aung Loon, Myanmar Times

Myanmar will launch an online land database soon, said Minister of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations U Thaung Tun. The online land database will be…


Liberia/Sierra Leone: Saving the Gola Forest: Reimagining Forest Conservation in West Africa

Jan 12, 2021 | Lewis Kihumba, Bird Life International

Covering more than 350,000 hectares, straddling the Liberia and Sierra Leone borders, Gola Forest is the largest remaining block of Upper Guinean Forest. Years of…


Middle East: Facebook and Google Earth Help Probe Eco-Crimes in the Middle East

Jan 12, 2021 | Cathrin Schaer, Deutsche Welle

Researchers are using the same open-source data methods that helped track war crimes in Syria to document environmental offenses in places like Yemen and Iraq.


Uganda: Mubende Youth, Women Embrace Climate Smart Agriculture Technologies

Jan 11, 2021 | Dan Wandera, Daily Monitor

Ms Hilda Atwongyeirwe, an IT graduate who is now deeply committed to her 35 acre soybean plantation at Kahumuro village Kitenga Subcounty  in Mubende District…


United Kingdom, South Africa: UK to Support South African Women Entrepreneurs to Develop GreenTech Businesses

Jan 11, 2021 | Rebecca Campbell, Engineering News

The UK, through the UK-South Africa Tech Hub, and in partnership with the Future Females Business School, will help 30 South African women entrepreneurs to…


Myanmar: Myanmar Mulls Online Gems and Jewellery Sales

Jan 4, 2021 | Pa Pa, Myanmar Times

After almost a year without income due to the inability to hold physical emporiums and promotional events in 2020, the Myanmar gems and jewellery industry…


Where Are the Women in Food Insecurity Analysis?

Jan 4, 2021 | Amy Lieberman, Devex

NEW YORK — Women are more likely to experience food insecurity than men, and the pandemic has exacerbated this divide. Women continue to shoulder more…


Liberia: Communities Use New App to Track Illegal Logging

Dec 23, 2020 | Varney Kamara, FrontPage Africa

Rural towns and villages are now using ForestLink, a new app, to track illicit forest operations and deforestation across Liberia, including illegal logging and mining,…


Iran/Jordan: A Controversial New Power Grid Divides the Middle East

Dec 22, 2020 | Simon Watkins, OilPrice.com

More details have emerged on the Iraq-Jordan electricity power grid that is fast becoming a highly controversial project due to Iraq’s persistent political game-playing with…


Afghanistan: UN Involved in Afghanistan Blockchain Land Registry Tool

Dec 2, 2020 | Ledger Insights

Later this month, the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) plans to launch a land registry solution for urban cities in Afghanistan called goLandRegistry. The project is a collaboration with…


More Women in Boardrooms Mean Better Climate Change Policy, Study Says

Dec 1, 2020 | Heesu Lee, Business Standard

Companies with greater gender diversity in their boardrooms show better performance on developing policies and methods to address climate change risks, according to BloombergNEF.


Fire, Conflict and Land Systems in the Middle East

Nov 27, 2020 | Lina Eklund

Since 2019, the author has been involved in a Marie Curie project on fire and conflict in the Middle East: FIRE – Fighting Insurgency Ruining…


Conflict Minerals: Minespider Partners with Google for Tin Blockchain Traceability

Nov 23, 2020 | Ledger Insights

Minspider has partnered with Rwandan tin producer LuNa Smelter and Google to develop a blockchain-based tool, OreSource, to help miners and smelters track data about the mineral’s production process. The platform…


Sierra Leone: ‘We See the Sparks Before They Turn into Fires’: Training Women to Avoid Conflict in Sierra Leone

Nov 21, 2020 | UN News

In the West African country of Sierra Leone, the UN is supporting a government programme, training women and men to take on leadership roles in…


The Weaponisation of Environmental Information in the Era of Fake News

Nov 12, 2020 | Doug Weir

Environmental disaster? War crime? Ecological terrorism? A polarised and omnipresent social media is turbocharging the manipulation of environmental information during conflicts. While the use of…


A Digital Revolution to Save Nature and Build Peace

Nov 12, 2020 | Wim Zwijnenburg

The revolution in space-based technologies is creating a wealth of opportunities to track environmental degradation and its impact on lives and livelihoods. From rapid urbanisation…


Key Player in War on Climate Change? The Pentagon

Oct 26, 2020 | Michèle A. Flournoy

To its credit, the DoD has already been investing over $1.5 billion of its annual research and development budget in new energy technologies. In the past,…


Lack of Flood Maps at Many U.S. Military Bases Creates Risks

May 22, 2020 | Marc Kodack

In the 2020 NDAA, Congress further required that DoD include in its’ installation master plans a discussion of risks and threats that included those from extreme…


There Have Been Repeated Warnings About the Environmental Risks Posed by Flooded Coal Mines in Eastern Ukraine, Are We Now Seeing Evidence That It Is Happening?

Apr 27, 2020 | Eoghan Darbyshire

On the 12th March reports emerged on social media of contamination and discoloration at a reservoir in the town of Yenakiyevo, northwest of Donetsk. A follow up article by Free…


From ENMOD to Geoengineering: The Environment as a Weapon of War

Apr 7, 2020 | Gabriela Kolpak

Collateral environmental damage has long been regarded as an inevitable consequence of armed conflicts. But there have also been many examples of the intentional manipulation of…