Caspian Sea littoral states have extended their embargo on sturgeon fishing in the largest inland body of water which produces some 90 percent of the world’s caviar, an official says.

Ukraine, a major global supplier of grain, cannot export most of its produce due to the current war, which is causing serious problems in places where they depend most on this supply such as the Middle East and Africa.

A total of 22 dams are to be constructed along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers near Turkey's borders with Syria and Iraq, which is expected to have a devastating effect on regional agriculture and to exasperate pollution

Israeli planes have sprayed dangerous herbicides on farmlands very close to the besieged Gaza Strip.