Armenia’s winemaking renaissance faces a new challenge: climate change. From shifting harvests to genetic research on native grapes, winemakers and scientists are adapting—experimenting with higher-altitude vineyards, irrigation methods, and biodiversity to preserve a six-millennia-old tradition.
As peace negotiations with Azerbaijan and regional integration projects advance, biodiversity corridors could become vital connectors across fractured landscapes and divided societies. With Armenia preparing to host COP17, the urgency of protecting its extraordinary biodiversity amid mounting ecological and political threats takes center stage.
Could Armenia’s mineral wealth, long dominated by Russian companies, emerge as a strategic asset in the global race for critical minerals? Gibran Caroline Boyce explores how mining now intersects with economic independence, national security and Armenia’s geopolitical diversification.
Armenia’s forests are vanishing under the pressure of illegal logging and rural dependence on firewood. Lori Youmshajekian follows volunteer rangers in Dilijan who risk their safety to defend fragile ecosystems, exposing corruption, weak enforcement, and the urgent fight to save Armenia’s trees.
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