Tag: Turkey - Page 4
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Istanbul: A City Growing in 'Overdrive'
The Istanbul of palaces and soaring minarets, of bazaars and bustling nightlife, lies within just a few of the city's 1,000 total square miles. The other Istanbul is full of factories, freeways, grey concrete buildings, and -- most of all -- traffic.
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Argentinean Artist Gives New Life To Old Money
Money does grow on Máximo González's trees: The Argentinean artist collages their trunks, branches, roots, leaves, and fruits using bank notes that have been taken out of circulation. The delicate works
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In Turkey, Planting Trees In the Path of a Dam's Destruction
It might seem the height of futility to plant trees in a place that risks being entirely washed away in less than a few years. But to the 200 or so people who gathered Saturday in the Turkish town of Hasankeyf, the idea made perfect sense.
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Quake-Prone Turkey Vows To Move Nuke Plans Ahead
The ongoing effort to contain radiation leaks from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant, badly damaged in the devastating earthquake and tsunami, has countries from
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Will Freshwater Pipeline Save Cyprus From Drought?
Key reservoirs in Cyprus are drying up. In some parts of the Greek side of the divided island, 50 percent of the trees have died due to drought, damaging soil quality and agricultural
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High-Tech Help for Some Turkish Denim Workers
With the recent death toll among Turkish denim sandblasting workers due to the lung disease silicosis nearing 50, one
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Remembering a Turkish Environmental Pioneer
When Victor Ananias started talking about organic agriculture in the early 1990s, the idea was largely a foreign one in Turkey. Today, the organization he founded in 1992 operates popular organic farmers' markets at five Istanbul locations.
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'A Few Brave People' Fight to Protect Turkey's Black Sea Region from Destructive Dams
The fight by residents of İkizdere and other Black Sea valleys to protect their homes from dam development is the subject of a moving new Turkish documentary, 'A Few Brave People.'
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Clever Mobile Gardens for City with Too Little Green
With just six square meters of green space -- not all of it usable -- available to each resident of Istanbul, people seeking an escape from the city's concrete jungle may have to start carrying their own little patch of green around on their backs.
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The Perils of Tree-Planting Programs in Turkey
The most common landscape in Turkey today, the Central Anatolian steppe is threatened by the usual suspects: poor water management, encroaching agricultural development, and the
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The Global Impact of Protecting One Turkish Lake
Once a popular swimming spot, Yeniçağa Lake in the northwestern Turkish province of Bolu has become too polluted even to sustain the healthy fish populations once found there. But thanks to an
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Endangered Baby Monk Seals Recuperating in Turkey
Two injured young Mediterranean monk seals are recuperating successfully at a wildlife rehabilitation center in Foça, a town on Turkey's
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Turkey's Scientist of the Year on Butterflies, Banding Birds, and Eco Tourism (Interview)
Though his published research at Stanford has made him one of the most-cited scientists in the past decade, Dr. Çağan Hakkı Şekercioğlu can just as often be found in the remote wilds of northeast Turkey, banding birds and doing community outreach.
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Time Running Out For Many Bird Species in Turkey
Dozens of starlings in the Karacabey district of Turkey's Bursa province were among the victims of a
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Two Intrepid Cyclists Embark on a Silk Road Adventure With an Environmental Twist
Traders, soldiers, and pilgrims alike plied the Silk Road for almost 3,000 years, traversing empires as they rose and fell, and creating a literary and historical legacy that has inspired countless explorers
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Bulgaria Joins Growing Fight Against Plastic Bags
It doesn't seem to matter what you're buying in Turkey -- a bottle of juice you're going to drink immediately, a tiny pen, or a half-kilo of cherries that's already in a plastic bag -- it's a heck of a task
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Renewables Law Unlikely to Tap Turkey's Potential
Just before the end of the year, the Turkish Parliament passed a long-pending renewable energy law that Energy Minister Taner
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Istanbul Residents Vote On Two Ugly Tram Designs
Sigh. Just when I was feeling optimistic about the latest developments with Istanbul's public transportation system, the municipality goes and announces that it's
