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Headline	Author	Published	Section
The natural resource curse is such a bitch Oil and the status of women in the Middle East	Nathan Wyeth	03 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Africa, Middle East, international politics, politics, environmental justice, energy, oil (all these topics)

Lebanon Sequitur Lebanese oil spill continues to spread		29 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Lebanon Sequitur Lebanese oil spill continues to spread Six weeks after Israel bombed a Lebanese power plant, spilling 10,000 to 15,000 tons of heavy fuel oil into the Mediterranean Sea, the disaster continues to be disastrous. The slick has traveled an estimated 90 miles north, affecting every one of Lebanon's approximately 200 beaches, and may reach Syria and Turkey. Lebanon's coastline has traded in throngs of t ...
Topics: energy, Israel, Middle East, news, oil (all these topics)

A Sight for Besor Eyes Dispatches from a NATO gathering on Middle Eastern water woes		16 Feb 2006	Dispatches
Eric Pallant is a professor of environmental science at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa., and codirector of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Integrated Water Resources Management. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 Thursday, 16 Feb 2006 Kibbutz Ketura, Israel The Besor River is just like the 14 other streams that begin in the mountains of the West Bank and flow west toward the Mediterranean Sea across the border bet ...
Topics: Dispatches, Friends of the Earth, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, water conflicts (all these topics)

Dead on Arrival Dispatches from a NATO gathering on Middle Eastern water woes		15 Feb 2006	Dispatches
Eric Pallant is a professor of environmental science at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa., and codirector of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Integrated Water Resources Management. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 Wednesday, 15 Feb 2006 Dead Sea, Israel The public beach on the Dead Sea is filled with gleeful voices: Russian, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Turkish, heavily accented English, German, and Armenian. Chris Bowser ...
Topics: Dispatches, Friends of the Earth, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, water conflicts (all these topics)

Tapped Out Dispatches from a NATO gathering on Middle Eastern water woes		14 Feb 2006	Dispatches
Eric Pallant is a professor of environmental science at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa., and codirector of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Integrated Water Resources Management. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 Tuesday, 14 Feb 2006 Kibbutz Ketura, Israel Nader El Khatib is the Palestinian director of Friends of the Earth Middle East. During most of the year, he meets with his Israeli and Jordanian counterparts to promote en ...
Topics: Dispatches, Friends of the Earth, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, water conflicts (all these topics)

A Thirst for Knowledge Dispatches from a NATO gathering on Middle Eastern water woes		13 Feb 2006	Dispatches
Eric Pallant is a professor of environmental science at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa., and codirector of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Integrated Water Resources Management. Dispatch: 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 Monday, 13 Feb 2006 Kibbutz Ketura, Israel A Moldovan, two Bulgarians, and three Canadians walk into the desert. It's like the start of a bad joke, but this is a specific desert -- an extreme one, accordi ...
Topics: Dispatches, Friends of the Earth, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, water conflicts (all these topics)

Err Jordan Middle East Conflict Decimates Jordan River		14 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Err Jordan Middle East Conflict Decimates Jordan River The Jordan River, a holy waterway for Christians, Jews, and Muslims alike, is a desiccated shadow of its once robust self, thanks to unceasing conflict and competition for water in the Middle East. Fifty years ago, the river's flow was more than 264 billion gallons a year; today, it is less than 26.5 billion a year -- and that includes more than 5 billion ...
Topics: Middle East, renewable energy, United Nations (all these topics)

One Meeellion Dollars! Iraq's Environment Ministry Faces Big Problems and a Small Budget		09 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
One Meeellion Dollars! Iraq's Environment Ministry Faces Big Problems and a Small Budget Iraq's first environment ministry, facing a host of daunting ecological problems and a list of 35 priority projects that would cost more than $200 million, has been allotted a 2004 budget of ... $1 ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, health, Iraq, Middle East, nuclear power, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, United Nations, water pollution (all these topics)

Oil Who Wander Are Not Lost		04 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Oil Who Wander Are Not Lost Last year, China became the world's second-largest importer of oil (take a wild guess who's No. 1), struggling to keep up with the energy demands of an economy expanding at a rate of 9.9 percent annually. Having recently concluded, like other oil-thirsty countries, that the volatile Middle East might not be a sta ...
Topics: Africa, Algeria, Asia, China, energy, European Union, Gabon, globalization, green living, Japan, Middle East (all these topics)

Walk Like an Egyptian Egyptian Agro-Business Is Socially Conscious and Green to Boot		27 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Walk Like an Egyptian Egyptian Agro-Business Is Socially Conscious and Green to Boot In the arid Egyptian desert -- an area not typically associated with socially progressive entrepreneurship -- the Sekem Group is demonstrating how home-grown business can make both profit and positive change. Founded in 1977 by Ibrahim Abouleish, the agro-business has developed a wide range of products (herbal medicin ...
Topics: business, food and agriculture, Middle East, wildlife (all these topics)

Global Village		18 Feb 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: green living, Iraq, Middle East, New York, New Zealand, United Nations (all these topics)

Liquid Assets		27 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Liquid Assets Saudi Arabia is home to the world's largest oil reserves, but it's desperately short on another, equally precious resource: water. There isn't a river or lake to be found anywhere in the nation, and the only renewable water sources are shallow aquifers refilled by infrequent rains. A growing population, a fondness for showy swimming ...
Topics: climate, energy, food and agriculture, green living, Middle East, population, renewable energy, wildlife (all these topics)

Ready, Aim, Fire		24 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Ready, Aim, Fire The Bush administration, U.S. troops, and Iraqi citizens aren't the only people preparing for war: Employees of American companies that specialize in extinguishing fires from oil wells are also readying themselves for what's to come. Iraq's economy, Middle Eastern political stability, and U.S. interests all dictate that the oil industry cannot be a casua ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, Middle East, politics, United States (all these topics)

To Russia, With Empty Tanks		06 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
To Russia, With Empty Tanks As President Bush weighs the pros and cons of waging war on Iraq, the issue of U.S. oil energy security looms large. And although no one would have believed it 50 years ago, the U.S. is increasingly contemplating Russia as a stable and desirable alternative source of oil. The strategic partnership between the Cold War-era e ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, Middle East, oceans, politics, Russia, United States (all these topics)

Babbittry		13 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Babbittry Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt announced today that he will become the chair of a company that plans to develop massive water projects in the Middle East. Babbitt, a lawyer who headed up the Interior Department during the Clinton administration, has since earned the ire of environmentalists by advising two companies seeking to develop parts of the California coast. His new and as-yet-unnamed bus ...
Topics: California, Middle East, renewable energy (all these topics)

Holy Water		05 Mar 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: Middle East, water conflicts (all these topics)

Kenya Believe It?		20 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Kenya Believe It? If Kenya gets its way, water distribution in east Africa could change dramatically: The nation's energy minister, Raila Odinga, has called for a review of the 1929 British colonial treaty that grants Egypt the right to veto projects involving use of the headwaters of the Nile. Od ...
Topics: Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, globalization, international government agencies, Kenya, Middle East, Nile River, rivers and watersheds, Sudan, water conflicts (all these topics)

Not Sharky's Day		11 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Not Sharky's Day The cruel practice of shark-finning -- in which the fins are sliced off of living sharks to make soup -- has found its way into the heavily protected waters of Egypt's Red Sea. The discovery of illegal shark-fin fishing in the region has alarmed both environmentalist and tourism operators in the region. Underwater tourism in the Red Sea is a multi-million dollar industry, and every shar ...
Topics: business, Egypt, marine life, Middle East, Red Sea (all these topics)

Area 51		04 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Area 51 Fair-to-middling was the U.S. ranking in a new study, presented at the World Economic Forum last week in New York, that rated the environmental health of 142 countries. In the study, conducted by the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy and the Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University, the U.S. came in ...
Topics: Africa, Asia, Canada, European Union, globalization, green living, Middle East, United States (all these topics)

Deep Sea Diving		16 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Deep Sea Diving As if all the political strife weren't enough, here's more grim news from the Middle East: The Dead Sea, the lowest spot on Earth, is getting even lower. In the last decade, the sea, which already lies more than 1,300 feet below sea level, has fallen an additional 20 feet. Scientists attribute the change to a drop in the water table around the Dead Sea, wh ...
Topics: climate, food and agriculture, Middle East, oceans, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Victor: Victoria		04 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Victor: Victoria These days, press coverage of the Middle East is all bombs and burkhas, but Victoria Jamali is fighting a very different battle. The Iranian woman cofounded one of her country's most active nonprofits, the Women's Society Against Environmental Pollution. Now, along with colleagues at the Univers ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, Iran, Middle East, politics, pollution and waste, wildlife (all these topics)

Put This in Your Pipeline and Smoke It Domestic oil and gas is not the ticket to U.S. energy security	Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins	20 Nov 2001	Soapbox
America's fragile domestic infrastructure threatens her energy security at least as much as dependence on oil from the Middle East. Replacing oil from that region with even more vulnerable domestic systems would therefore decrease energy security. Stranger than science fiction. Extraordinarily concentrated energy flows invite and reward devastatin ...
Topics: Alaska, Amory Lovins, business, energy, Middle East, renewable energy, United States (all these topics)

Standards vs. the Poor?		12 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Standards vs. the Poor? The European Union is demanding that environmental issues be included in the latest round of World Trade Organization talks, which opened on Friday in Doha, Qatar. The E.U. wants environmental standards to be negotiated as a part of trade rules -- and says the issue could be a "deal breaker" at the talks -- but many developing nations fear that ...
Topics: European Union, globalization, Middle East, Qatar, World Trade Organization (all these topics)

Better Off Red Than Dead?		06 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
Better Off Red Than Dead? The water level of the Dead Sea is dropping by about three feet a year and may go dry by 2050, says Friends of the Earth in the Middle East. The group is sponsoring a photo competition to raise awareness of the plight of the popular tourist attraction, using the catchy tag line, "Let the Dead Sea Live." Its campaign calls for the U.N. to take an int ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, Middle East, United Nations (all these topics)

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