The report presents a mixed picture. Over the past 25 years, there have been notable improvements in child well-being in the group of countries examined in this report: steady decline in child mortality, overall reduction in adolescent suicide and increase in school completion rates. But the last five years have …
Extreme precipitation events in the Mediterranean region during the cool season are strongly affected by the export of moist air from tropical and subtropical areas into the extratropics. The aim of this paper is to present a discussion of the major research efforts on this subject and to formulate a …
Since 2005, Istanbul has been pedestrianizing select areas on the city’s Historic Peninsula. According to Assessment of the Air Quality Effects of Pedestrianization on Istanbul’s Historic Peninsula by EMBARQ team in Turkey, these measures have significantly improved air quality in the region. Furthermore, the report notes how pedestrianization is producing …
Turkey is planning to double its coal power capacity in four years, the third largest investment in the polluting fossil fuel in the world, health campaigners have warned. The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) today called on the European Union to promote sustainable development in Turkey and end lending for …
A planned clean-up project for Ergene River would destroy natural life in the Marmara Sea, according a report released by several non-governmental organizations and environmental groups May 18. A report issued by a committee formed by members of the Turkish Medical Association (TTB), Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and …
About one million Turks took part on Saturday in a worldwide clean-up campaign to collect garbage from the sea and forest across the country. Themed "Let's Do It," the campaign is being simultaneously organized in more than 100 countries. People convened in several meeting points in 81 Turkish provinces to …
Turkey’s Energy Market Regulatory Authority has received 14 times more pre-license applications than its allocated capacity for wind power plants, Mustafa Yılmaz, head of the authority, revealed on May 6. Speaking at the opening session of the 21st International Energy and Environment Fair and Conference (ICCI ), which is sponsored …
Former managers of a Turkish coal mine where 301 people died last year have appeared in court on murder charges. The eight ex-managers were ordered to testify in person, after plans for them to appear via video link caused outrage among victims' relatives. A total of 45 people are on …
Hundreds of protesters marched in western Turkey on Monday, demanding harsh sentences for mining company executives at the start of their trial over the deaths of 301 miners, the country's worst industrial accident. The underground fire last May sent deadly carbon monoxide coursing through the mine in the town of …
European, Turkish and Chinese recyclers are set to benefit from strict new EU rules on breaking up old ships, but the practice of dismantling them on beaches in South Asia at great human and environmental cost will still be hard to stop. Of 1,026 ocean-going ships recycled in 2014, 641 …
Disaster management aims to reduce catastrophic losses of disasters. Geographic information technologies support disaster management activities for effective and collaborative data management considering the complex nature of disasters. This study with an original conceptual approach aims to develop interoperable geographic data model and analysis tools to manage geographic data sets …
The Lancet presents the most recent update on the global, regional, and national causes of death. Against a backdrop of increased global improvements in life-expectancy, death rates for some causes – including drug use and liver cancer – continue to rise. Up-to-date evidence on levels and trends for age-sex-specific all-cause …
Protected areas are one of the main tools for halting the continuing global biodiversity crisis caused by habitat loss, fragmentation and other anthropogenic pressures. According to the Aichi Biodiversity Target 11 adopted by the Convention on Biological Diversity, the protected area network should be expanded to at least 17% of …
Invasive species impact on the biodiversity of Britain by eating native species as well as affecting human health and the economy. Many originate from the Black, Asov and Caspian seas around Turkey and Ukraine. Scientists worry that some may already be in Britain, but as yet undiscovered. Fears have now …
The Australian Capital Territory of Canberra has been ranked the best place in the world to live, in a report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Canberra led the regional ranking while Australia topped the overall country rankings, followed by Norway. The OECD ranked 362 regions of …
An ambitious pipeline project linking reservoirs in Turkey to the parched, isolated Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is on track to bring much needed drinking water to the island by year’s end. Engineers behind the Baris Su (“Peace Water”) project said earlier this month they passed the halfway point on …
For centuries, Turkish rulers in Istanbul have realized the strategic importance of the narrow Bosporus strait, which famously divides east and west, and have pledged to build a waterway that bypasses the channel to more efficiently connect north and south. The latest proposed version of this crazy scheme is called …
Istanbul has launched a water- saving campaign as water levels of dams have hit a record low, Istanbul Water and Canalization Management (ISKI) announced on Wednesday. With merely 16.31 percent of its water reserve left, according to ISKI, the 14 million people in Turkey's largest city have been warned not …
This may confirm suspicions that many of us have already had. Besides leading the world in consumer debt and military spending, the U.S. can now add climate denial to that list. That is, according to a Global Trends survey by the U.K.-based market research firm Ipsos MORI. The study polled …
Abengoa SA (ABG), the biggest developer of solar-thermal power plants, won a contract to modernize the pipeline infrastructure to supply water and sanitation to about 500,000 people in southwest Turkey. The Seville, Spain-based company is already constructing the El Zapotillo aqueduct in Mexico, one of the largest water projects in …
Two dozen people, including company executives, have been detained as Turkish officials investigate the mining disaster that killed 301 people, a domestic news agency reported Sunday. The Dogan news agency said Ramazan Dogru, general manager of the mine owned by Soma Holding, and its operations manager, Akin Celik, were among …
