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Environment

Climate change

UN: time running out to avoid climate disaster

Health

A view of Shuaiba oil refinery is seen in Basra, southeast of Baghdad September 21, 2015. (Reuters)

Rising carbon dioxide levels poses added risk to the Middle East

Israel

Water woes. An Israeli farmer checks soil in his field near Kfar Yuval. (AP)

5-year drought raises questions over Israel’s water strategy

Sea

At critical levels. Seagulls search for food near a sewage discharge area next to piles of plastic bottles washed away by the water on the seaside of Ouzai in southern Beirut, on July 19. (AFP)

Sea pollution in Lebanon approaching dangerous levels

maghreb

Precious commodity. People cool off at a water fountain on a hot day in Tunis. (Reuters)

Record heatwave points to looming climate crisis for Maghreb

conservation

A farmer drives a tractor through smoke from burning rice straw in preparation for the next harvest, at a paddy field in the beginning of the agricultural road leading to Cairo November 1, 2014. (Reuters)

Green initiatives in MENA make a change but long road ahead

Water

Cleaning water, saving lives. An engineer fills a flask with recycled water at an advanced water purification facility. (AP)

Water purification technology: a needed investment for MENA countries

Desert

A girl carries cans to fill them with water in Katawane, near Nema in south-eastern Mauritania. (AFP)

Mauritania’s nomadic herders seek safe passage through drought

Water

Low share. Palestinian children fill plastic gallons with drinking water from a vendor in Khan Younis. (AP)

Treating access to water and sanitation in the Arab world as a human right