Desertification in Iraq: Multiplying sandstorms threaten local population
• Jul 5, 2024, 2:25 PM
1 min de lecture
Water is running out in Iraq, a country where nearly more than half of the territory is considered at risk of desertification. Year after year, the situation is becoming worse and worse. Meanwhile the vast desertified areas create an environment prone to sandstorms – a destructive and dangerous phenomenon for the people living there. Lina Malers and Marie-Charlotte Roupie report.
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Pakistani midwives on the frontline of climate change
• 2:51 PM
1 min
As Pakistan confronts a series of crippling heatwaves, it is pregnant women and newborns who suffer the most. As a result, its midwives have found themselves on the frontline of climate change. Also, as Saudi Arabia declares rights for women in the count
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Meet the woman who ran 20 marathons in 30 days along the Seine
• 12:14 AM
1 min
An Australian environmental activist has become the first person to run the entire length of the Seine River, a total of 848km from its source to the sea, in 30 days. Mina Guli set off on this epic journey last month to draw attention to efforts being ma
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