Tag: Turkey - Page 8
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Turkish Town Bans Fireworks to Save Sea Turtles
Especially during the summer months, the sound of fireworks is part of the evening soundtrack in Turkey, where pyrotechnics are often used to celebrate weddings, football
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Oil Spill in Istanbul as Cargo Ship Runs Aground
From my window, I can inevitably see -- at least when it's not snowing out -- a flotilla of cargo ships waiting their turn to pass through the Bosphorus Strait as they make
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A LEED of One's Own: New Green Building Certification in the Works for Turkey
Eco-friendly buildings in Turkey may soon be able to receive a similar certificate that takes Turkey's climate, culture, geography, and energy consumption into consideration, giving a boost to the country's nascent green-building sector.
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'Green Star' for Eco-Friendly Istanbul Hotel
It was two years and $5 million in the making, but one of Best Western's Istanbul hotels has received a "Green Star" from the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism for its
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December Eco-Tidbits from Turkey
Expectations from this month's United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen were
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'Just Talk' from Turkey at Copenhagen, Activists Say
Though Turkish officials came to the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen under the banner 'Turkey is part of the solution,' you can add Turkish environmentalists to the long list of people disenchanted by the outcome of the global summit.
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10 Breathtaking Waterfront Campgrounds Around the World
From the jungles of Colombia to Turkey's Mediterranean coast, camping is even better when you have a breathtaking waterfront view. After picking 10 gorgeous campgrounds on lakes, rivers, and
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Turkey Plans 'Disneyland' Version of Historic Dam Site
The news that nearly 1 million tourists have visited the ancient city of Hasankeyf has apparently led Turkish officials to come to the absolutely wrong conclusion: that the site should be turned into theme-park version of itself.
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Can Carpooling Ease the Istanbul Commute? A Bus Rider's Pessimistic View
With the onset of the winter rains, Istanbul's already congested roadways became a sea of stationary lights last night, turning my typically 45-minute commute into a two-hour-plus one.
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'Lights Out' for Orkney Families and a Turkish Bank
When a few dozen households on the Orkney Islands in northern Scotland turn off their lights tonight, they won't be switching them on again until
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November Eco-Tidbits from Turkey
November was a
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Saving the Pearl Mullet, and People Too
In the early 1990s, eastern Turkey was a hotbed of conflict, as violent acts by members of a separatist organization took thousands of lives. Given
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CNN Türk Spotlights Organic Farming Pioneer
Poverty and unemployment are rife in Erzurum, a city where the weather is so inclement that Turks
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Can Turkey Break the Copenhagen Deadlock?
As a city that literally straddles Europe and Asia, Istanbul -- and, by extension, Turkey --
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Adapting to Climate Change in the Arid Middle East
Lying at the crossroads of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, both water-poor and heavily agriculture-dependent areas, Turkey has more
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The Price of a Pipeline: Rena Effendi's Powerful Photos of Lives Destroyed By the Oil Industry
An abandoned oil well (left) and a fisherman in an oil village, both in Baku, Azerbaijan. Photos by Rena Effendi via Getty Images. Boosters of the Nabucco pipeline project tout the economic and political clout it will bring to Turkey. But where there
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'Build Paris on Paris' & Other Good Ideas for Growth
Dense urban centers are good; sprawling suburbs are bad. Put in the simplest terms, that's what the
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Walking: An Equal-Opportunity Answer to Traffic Congestion, From New York to New Delhi
With just 139 cars for every 1,000 residents -- compared to 209 in New York City, and a whopping 765 in the United States as a whole -- many parts of Istanbul are
