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tunisia

Environmental activists prepare artificial reefs on the shores of Kuriat island, in Monastir, Tunisia June 4, 2021. (AFP)

Environmentalists build artificial reefs off Tunisian coast to save sealife

environment

A pied kingfisher perched on a rock in the Iraqi marshland in the southern district of Chibayish, on April 14, 2021. (AFP)

Pollution endangers Iraq’s ancient Mesopotamian marshes

Lebanon

Dead fish are seen floating in Lake Qaraoun on the Litani River, Lebanon April 29, 2021. (REUTERS)

Tonnes of fish wash up on shore of polluted lake in Lebanon

tunisia

Sousse port where hundreds of illegal containers of Italian household waste still wait to be sent back. (AFP)

Italy pressed to remove illegal waste shipment from Tunisia

Morocco

An electric bus runs in the southern Moroccan city of Marrakech. (AFP)

Morocco ranks best in MENA in 2021 Green Future Index

Oman

Former inhabitants of Wadi al-Murr gather near abandoned houses in the Omani village, about 400 kms south-west of the capital Muscat. (AFP)

Omanis rediscover village swallowed by the desert

environment

Abu Dhabi authority sees environment as key to future of farming

Iraqi water

A 2019 file picture shows wastewater flowing in central Basra, Iraq. (AP)

Shrinking water supplies threaten to put fragile Iraq ‘on the edge’

MENA

An Emirati man stands in front of rows of parabolic shaped mirrors at the Shams 1, Concentrated Solar power (CSP) plant, in al-Gharibiyah district on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi. (AFP)

Lower solar energy cost can lead to brighter future