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Syria’s Environmental Woes Fueled Its Long Conflict. Left Unaddressed, They Will Do So Again.

I recently returned to Syria for my first peacetime visit. Unsurprisingly, the country is an awful mess. The destruction is somehow slightly more conspicuous than it seemed through a number of trips ...
Syrian Arab News Agency

Syria discusses environmental cooperation with Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Qatar

Syrian Minister of Local Administration and Environment Mohammad Anjarani held separate meetings with his counterparts from Yemen, Saudi ...
syria-report.com

Syria Policy Dialogues – Climate, Land and Water: Environmental Pressures and Political Risk in Syria

The Syria Report, in collaboration with the Omran Center for Strategic Studies and with support from the Swiss Federal ...
Arab News

How local green activists are confronting northeast Syria’s unfolding environmental crisis

QAMISHLI, Syria: For thousands of years, the land between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers has seen dozens of civilizations rise and fall — civilizations that depended on the rivers and the surrounding ...
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Syria seeks to restore vegetation cover, expand Arab environmental cooperation

Cairo, Oct. 1 (SANA) Syria is working to restore its vegetation cover and expand Arab cooperation on environmental protection and wildfire prevention, Minister of Local Administration and Environment ...
Reuters

Drought-hit Syrian farmers could get help as sanctions lifted

UN body reports 75% of Syrian wheat crops projected to fail Syria relied on Russian wheat imports - now disrupted Sanctions relief could revive Syria's agriculture sector ALEPPO, May 20 (Reuters) - ...
petra

Jordan, Syria discuss boosting environmental cooperation, joint climate coordination

Amman, Sept. 30 (Petra) -- Minister of Environment Ayman Suleiman discussed during a meeting Wednesday with Syrian Minister of Local Administration and Environment Mohammad Anjrani ways to enhance ...