The Silent Strength of Maghreb’s Rural Women
They rise before dawn, walk the dry fields, mend nets by fading shorelines, and yet remain unheard in the rooms where decisions about their futures are made. Across Tunisia, Algeria,...
Ikram Ben Yezza
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AI and Cloud Seeding: Can We Control the Rain?
When Dean Martin cheerfully sang “Let It Snow!”, he surely couldn’t have imagined a future where humans would actually try to make it snow. Decades later, that playful dream has...
Posidonia SOS: Racing to Save a Marine Treasure
In the Mediterranean Sea’s depths, Posidonia, known as “Dhrii” in the Tunisian dialect, fights for its survival against the devastating effects of human actions, such as coastal management, pollution, and...
Resilience of Marine Protected Areas in Tunisia
Photo of Galite Island, one of Tunisia's marine protected areas in northern Tunisia
The battle of the clams: Between plate and resilience
The heroines of Tunisian shores: women clam diggers are facing an unprecedented environmental and socio-economic crisis. With clam stocks dwindling at an alarming rate, the authorities have suspended harvesting for...
Dolphins: victims of interaction with fishermen
Off the Tunisian coast, coexistence between fishermen and dolphins is far from idyllic. Every day, these adorable mammals are targeted, accused of ravaging nets and taking a large share of...
Plastic scourge: end of fishing in the Mediterranean?
Clamped necks, sheared fins, perforated intestines – this is what the fishermen of Monastir find every day in fish, sea turtles and dolphins. These animals are the victims of the...
Menzel Bourguiba: SOS for a lagoon in distress
Menzel Bourguiba, a town in the north of the country formerly known as Ferryville, has for several decades been affected by pollution from factories located on the shores of the...
