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Protecting Ischia with Traditional Dry-Stone Walls and Local Knowledge

Ischia’s traditional dry-stone walls, known locally as parracine, illustrate how heritage and nature-based solutions can support communities facing climate risks. Built to contain soil and create terraces for cultivation, these mortar-less walls have shaped Ischia’s landscape for centuries, supporting vineyards, olives and citrus plantations. Read the story by Mariam Younes.

Brewing Change: Turning Morocco’s Coffee Waste Into Climate Solutions

Raised in his family’s traditional charcoal business, Youssef Adbib grew up aware of its environmental cost. Years later, while working in the coffee shop industry, he noticed the daily waste of discarded coffee grounds and had an idea: what if one industry’s waste could become another’s solution?
Read the full story by Nicolás Marín Navas, first published on The Switchers Blog.

#MediterraneanPulse: Curated Stories from Across the Mediterranean

#MediterraneanPulse is our selection of powerful stories from across the Mediterranean: South, East and North. 

CREAF - La Vall de Joan, a Model of Metropolitan Ecological Restoration

On 4 December 2025, the AMB hosted a conference on the restoration of Vall de Joan, presenting the transformation of Barcelona’s largest former landfill into a thriving techno-ecosystem and a pioneering example of restorative metropolitan management.

MedWaves - Sustainable Entrepreneurship in the Southern Mediterranean: Tunis brings together regional stakeholders around a Manifesto for the Green Transition

Tunis hosted, on 18 and 19 December 2025, the international conference “Sustainable Entrepreneurship in the Southern Mediterranean: Regional Cooperation for a Green Transition”, co-organised by MedWaves (UNEP/MAP Regional Activity Centre for Sustainable Consumption and Production) and CITET (International Centre for Environmental Technologies of Tunis). 

CluBE - CORE Project Public Event: Composting for Sustainable Communities

CluBE hosted a public awareness event within the framework of the CORE project, bringing together citizens and local stakeholders to explore the power of composting as a driver for sustainable change.

EMUNI University - EMUNI Annual Scientific Conference 2026 (EM-HERI 2026)

Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI), in partnership with ALECSO - الألكسو and European Institute of the Mediterranean, invites researchers, academics, and practitioners to submit abstracts for EM-HERI 2026, a high-level policy and scientific conference bringing together stakeholders from across the Euro-Mediterranean region.

📅 Date: 23 June 2026
📍 Location: ALECSO premises, Tunis, Tunisia
⏳ Abstract deadline: 21 March 2026

CENER 21 - Boost Efficiency Through Green Transition: SME Training in Visoko, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Do you want to reduce costs and improve your business efficiency? Join a free training for SMEs from Breza offering practical, hands-on guidance on green measures, energy efficiency, and upcoming EU regulations—designed around real insights and needs of local businesses.

📅 February 3, 2026

📍 Hotel “Vema”, Visoko

 ⏰ 10:00 AM

REVOLVE - Workshop: Climate, Stories and Territory

This February, the Climate Frontline Project, co-created by the European Journalism Centre and REVOLVE, brings journalists, communities, experts and civil society together in Portugal and Spain to rethink how we communicate climate emergencies before, during and after they happen, with a focus on floods and wildfires.

Through roundtables and participatory workshops, the event will explore:
• How to inform in ways that help people anticipate and protect themselves
• How to move beyond the isolated event and explain systems, causes and responsibilities
• How climate reporting can support recovery, accountability and solutions

🗓️Coimbra, Portugal - 11 February 
🗓️Valencia, Spain -  20 February

Water News Europe: European Member States Start Monitoring PFAS in Drinking Water

Member States must now monitor PFAS levels in drinking water to ensure compliance with EU limit values under the Drinking Water Directive. Companies are required to report exceedances of the limit values, incidents, and any granted derogations. Read the story by Esther Rasenberg for Water News Europe.

Jummar Media: What Happens to Water at the End of the Tigris and Euphrates: Water Sustains Oil Fields While Basra Runs Dry

As Basra’s water crisis deepens, large volumes of water are being diverted to Iraq’s oil fields for reservoir injection. This investigation examines how oil production drains resources from people and farmland in one of the country’s most water-stressed regions. Read the story by Abdullah Al-Sa’ad for Jummar Media.

Jummar Media: Drought Threatens Babylon’s Fig Trees: A Tree for People, Bees and Bulbul Songbirds

A fig tree can live for half a century and begins bearing fruit after its third year. On Saadoun Al-Saadouni’s farm, some trees are older than his eldest son. He tended them with the same care he gave his children. This is a story of fig trees dying in Babylon, one of Iraq’s most fertile provinces. Read the story by Marwan Al-Fatlawi for Jummar Media.

Beirut Today: Waterscarcity in Beirut

In 2025, Beirut’s water crisis worsened due to political mismanagement and climate change, driving up living costs. Beirut Today explored the lack of rainfall and reliance on private water suppliers through interviews with experts. By Mille Lund Harbøll.

DARAJ Media: “Environmental Annihilation” in the Arab World: How Are Oil and Gas Companies Invading the Last Strongholds of Nature?

The project shows that Oman and the UAE rank among the top 10 globally for overlap between oil and gas licenses and protected areas, with Oman second and the UAE fifth in terms of affected land.

Cosmos Media: The Mediterranean is Crying Out for Help: Can Marine Protected Areas Save it?

Only 0.04% of the Mediterranean Sea is strictly protected, leaving marine life at risk. This series by Cosmos Media and Med Mosaic explores why real, enforced protection is urgently needed.

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AMWAJ stands for A Mediterranean Water And Journalism platform for sustainable development. We are a community of like-minded media professionals and organisations, sharing the common goal of advancing communication on water issues in the Mediterranean. An initiative by REVOLVE.