How did the earthquake affect Syria’s dams and rivers?
Questions remain about the impact on Syria’s waterways from the February 6 earthquake, which affected several dams and led to localized flooding.
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02, 2023
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02, 2023
Concerns over earthquake’s impact on children in northwestern Syria as relief efforts continue
As the earthquake emergency response in northwestern Syria focuses on rescue operations and relief, some local organizations in northwestern Syria are honing in on the disaster’s impact on children.
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02, 2023
‘Running out of breath’: Have Syrians been left to face the earthquake alone?
Rescue teams in several countries have mobilized to help Turkey rescue the victims of Monday’s devastating earthquake, but so far no aid or personnel have entered northwestern Syria, where residents are turning to displacement camps as a refuge.
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01, 2023
Fuel crisis in regime areas pushes Syrians to the brink, paralyzes public sector
Regime-controlled parts of Syria are in the grips of the worst fuel crisis since 2011, driving up costs of heating, goods and services, and paralyzing parts of the public sector
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11, 2022
Turkish strikes on energy infrastructure disrupt essential services, fuel pollution in northeastern Syria
Recent Turkish airstrikes and shelling damaged oil fields and power plants in SDF-held northeastern Syria, threatening a prolonged energy crisis and exacerbating widespread environmental pollution in the area.
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10, 2022
Seeds of Syria: How a birthplace of agriculture lost troves of its native crops, and why we should all worry
Home to the wild ancestors of our most important crops, Syria once hosted one of the world’s biggest seed banks and grew several native varieties of wheat. But this collapsed during the war, and Syrians are now struggling to find good-quality seeds. How did the country lose its seed treasure, and with it, a wealth of genetic resources for humanity?
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10, 2022
Sweet poison: In Hama, a sugar factory resumes work and a river’s respite ends
After an 8-year pause, Hama’s Tal Salhab sugar factory resumed production in late July, dumping pollutants into the nearby Orontes River. Dead fish soon washed up on the banks, signaling a return to a deadly, and unsustainable, status quo.
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10, 2022
‘Daughter of Kurds’: Meet the social media queen fighting to preserve rural cultural heritage in northeastern Syria (Photos)
From her small village in northeastern Syria, Keça Kurda tries to preserve Kurdish cultural heritage and to pass it on to younger generations through social media.
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09, 2022
The dying bees of Syria
Beekeeping is an ancient tradition in Syria, where native bees used to produce world-famous honey. But decades of intensive farming, economic hardship and environmental degradation have shattered the delicate relationships that once united bees and humans.
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09, 2022
Years of stopgap solutions do little to solve entrenched water crisis in northern Aleppo’s al-Bab
In 2017, Damascus cut off the main supply of water to the northern Aleppo city of al-Bab. Every year since, finding safe water for drinking and agriculture has grown increasingly difficult. This year was the worst yet, and the city’s stopgap solutions are growing less effective.