In a world first, plant sounds are recorded by scientists in Israel.
Regenx from Canada has evolved the concept of mining: they are urban mining in the classic sense and pointing the way to cleaner and more sustainable ways of recovering minerals from industry.
The British design studio of Thomas Heatherwick's is designing the new Jeddah Central Museum in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to be located in a former desalination plant by the Red Sea.
When people think of electric vehicle (EV) companies, most dont think of countries where electric vehicle research and development takes place, so most dont think of Lebanon. EV Electra will change that.
Cow dung could be used to create a next generation sustainable material, according to a new report.
Red Sea Farms has rebranded from being a business that produces cucumbers and peppers to RedSea, one that produces technology for hydroponic companies.
Melda Akin will mentor women in AI so they can do AI tech in the Middle East
a forward thinking Abu Dhabi is putting their mark on greening the plastics industry by connecting industry at Etihad Rail with students at ACTVET to apply the latest 3D printing technologies that use recycled materials.
Saudi Arabia's crown ruler has decided to put oil money profits from Saudi Aramco, its national oil company and largest company in the world, to an interesting use: he is building 110-mile long 15-minute city called The Line on the coast of the Red Sea.
Syrian cuisine features home-cooking and a secret ingredient called "love", necessary in Middle Eastern style cooking. Syrians use a wide variety of spices such as cumin, coriander, allspice, cinnamon, sumac, and za'atar.
Are we just held captive by the workplace looking for ways to escape? Working less gives us more time to refresh.
Car exhaust fumes pollute our cities and damage our lungs but tiny bits of car tires when we screech to a lot, or which come over with wear and tear? It was assumed by the scientific community that these bits of plastic end up on the side of the round or down the storm []
It hit me like a punch to the gut: the world pioneer in cannabis research, Prof. Raphael Mechoulam, known as the father of cannabis research died in Israel at age 92. His research in cannabis, on THC and CBD set off a chain reaction globally, recognising cannabis as medicine.
The Quran, which is the central religious text of Islam, contains several verses that prohibit the consumption of alcohol. There are clear commands from the Muslim God Allah to abstain from intoxicants, including alcohol and cannabis, in order to attain success in life.
In Islam, alcohol is strictly prohibited by the Quran, the holy book of Islam. They join a growing group of abstainers. Here are 10 virgin cocktails that are great for summer.
Starting a seed bank at home is a great way to preserve family traditions of food and gardening. You don't need to be a biologist or forester: Many families have unique heirloom seeds that have been passed down from generation to generation.
You may have heard about the doomsday Svalbard Global Seed Vault but there are smaller versions of seed banks all over the world. The seed banks in the Middle East protect ancient seeds like wheat, chick peas, fava beans, and sesame.
Lebanese authorities have failed to uphold the right to electricity by mismanaging the sector for decades, Human Rights Watch said in a scathing report released this month.
Thanks to Abu Dhabi's renewable energy company Masdar, of which zero-energy city Masdar is also named energy-poor Jordan gets a new project under the sun. This month Masdar officially cut the ribbon and inaugurated the Baynouna Solar Park in the Middle East country of Jordan.
LLNL showed that a laser confinement fusion power is possible even if it isnt practical until it can target its lasers at more than one peppercorn for longer than a ten-billionth of a second.
But what if we didnt have to split hydrogen from oxygen? What if there were places like the coal mine Mendeleev studied in Ukraine with an even higher percentage of hydrogen? Like the chemical patterns revealed in Mendeleevs dream, so-called geologic hydrogen was there all along but we werent looking for it, or we were looking in the wrong places.
Sultan Al Neyadi, SpaceX Crew-6 mission specialist, will be the second United Arab Emirates astronaut to fly to space and the first Arab to spend an extended journey in space.
Hicham Husami from Lebanon has announced on Al-Manar TV (Hezbullah-Lebanon) that he has invented the Lira Ecological Car, the first car produced in an Arab country to run on electric and solar energy. Its clunky and lacking slick design, but when people cant afford the fuel to run their cars or diesel generators, its a []
Climate change is heating our seas so less oxygen can be absorbed. What does this mean for reef health? Chinese and Israeli researchers give data for policy makers.
It isn't often you can bite into a cookie with a load of ancient history behind it. Call them Hamentaschen or Oznei Haman, or Haman's Ears but make sure to bake up a batch of these buttery, traditional Purim cookies.
In a recent study the group used gene editing and hydroponics to pinpoint which genes are responsible for long roots. Long-rooted wheat can search for water and minerals better in the wild and is a more ideal gene trait if seed bank researchers want to produce seeds from wild varieties that are climate resilient.
How can we combat wild peeing in cities and make our toilets more sustainable?
Here are 10 comforting soups to get you through the winter. One or two may be a pleasant surprise.
Why do some animals poo pellets, some tubes, and others pies, and how is it similar to cooling lava? Cracking the code for cubed poop.
Big enough to fit 20 Empire State buildings inside, consider the Mukaab in Riyadh is a shape-shifting fantasy block where inside you enter realms of the multiverse, without the goggles.
Is this the world's ugliest building? And why we keep things when they are not perceived as ugly.
Lets be optimistic. Maybe there is a way to sneak around that third law of physics, a trick to hide the carbon from mother nature.
A two-letter typo led to a $500 million nuclear accident that exposed 22 people to radioactive contamination.
We feel what happens to food prices and our lifestyle when conflict broke out in the Ukraine and Russia. So much of our daily lives are interdependent on the global village that countries, and people, know they need to start thinking more locally to support food traditions and the culture they love. On one side []
Zaha Hadid was an Iraqi and Middle Eastern woman architect, a starchitect legend who died too soon. She was the first female architect (and first Muslim) to win the prestigious Pritzker Prize. But the firm behind her name and iconic feminine language carries on. While we dont love that Zaha Hadids firm is behind the []
Permaculture is a holistic environmental design system where we draw inspiration from patterns in nature to create functional design.
Marathons are a sustainable way to explore the Middle East. We have the best marathons in the Middle East list here, some easy some extreme and ultra. But want to try the oldest marathon in the Middle East. In Dubai? TheDubaiMarathon is the largest mass sporting event in the Middle East, according to event organizers. []
The secrets of ancient Pharaohs and Egyptians still have the power to astonish: a new research paper chronicles the discovery of 2,500 year crocodile mummies, preserved in a ritual dating back to the time of Sobek, a fertility deity worshipped by ancient Egyptians.
Researchers have just confirmed what fishing together means for Brazilians and dolphins. They studied a centuries-old practice of dolphins and people fishing together in southern Brazil and learn its a symbiotic relationship which is now under threat. The researchers report how bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus gephyreus) find schools of fish and herd them to the []
We need a spiritual transformation to change our planet's greed, he says in response to Saudi Arabians not responsible for dry Arizona water wells.
Sea-swimming was part of the new normal that came with Covid-19. It was safer than going to the gym or disco during a pandemic. We had a beautiful natural setting, healthy social distance, fresh air and fitness. It was the perfect activity except for one thing. It was cold.
Yonatan Neril is an eco-rabbi. Catch him in Davos making climate change through faith.
MAYU, a new kind of water device filter company from Israel that makes economical and ecological sense.
Ostriches were common in the area from the early prehistoric periods until they became extinct in the wild in the course of the 19th century.
A new study finds 12.7% of childhood asthma in the US is caused by gas stoves
Frequency Electronics makes clocks for time in space. Each tradition, religion and space seems to have its own sense of time.
Dalan Animal Healths vaccine for American foulbrood, an aggressive bacterial disease, is the first for any insect in the United States.
The new study on ancient concrete shows that while ancients didn't know exactly why the concrete they used worked chemically, even though it was a recipe they perfected, it may be a recipe for reducing climate change.
A new study from the desert has found that light pollution hurts small mammals Which means light pollution is hurting our planet and probably us.
The white patches are exposed opal caches on Mars. The result could mean water for future Martians.
Like the elaborate and luxurious riads of Morocco, the Levant area (Lebanon, Syria, Israel) has its own style of elaborate estates and Ottoman palaces.
Tourists welcome at the spectacular region of Alulu in Saudi Arabia, and the Khaybar Volcano Camp. Sleep under the stars, for $500 a night.
From an ancient fortress you get to by a river hike to cave dwellings even older. Find history and ecology meeting in Israel's secret day trips.
Saudi Arabia is planning on building a floating port called Oxagon, as part of its Neom development. They say it will be the worlds largest floating structure.
Bees are turned off by the electrical changes created by pesticides. A study offers a new perspective on how human-made chemicals disturb the natural environment.
With its large number of dispossessed artists, musicians and writers, parts of Mastodon resemble Paris in the 1920s.Here is our intro guide.
CT scans help researchers "unwrap" the face of Ramses II without disturbing the mummy in any way. This is his face at 45. He was the man who met Moses.
Dubai is opening a new cafe in 2023, Donna Cyber Caf, featuring "super-model" Diana, who will serve you coffee with a smile between the valleys of her big bosom.
Essential Hannukah recipes to impress your Jewish friends.
So what happens when ancient microscopic fibers of cotton turn up on an archeology dig in Israel? A look back into how we once lived.
A common material called a zeolite might lead to breakthroughs in energy storage
America's NASA will start to monitor millions of lakes from space. The aim is to quantify what's happening to protect against climate change.
Want a certificate in medical marijuana, endorsed by New York? get in on the first classes
The United Arab Emirates has launched a moon mission. With notions of Mars on the horizon, it's high time for space explorers to get their space legs on the moon.
New hidden imagery not found on Google Earth, and hidden since March reveals construction progress on The Line in Saudi Arabia.
Like most and maybe all urban farming projects that rely on hydroponics - growing food in water, with nutrients added, unless you are selling cannabis products (medical marijuana), vertical farming is yet to make much sense beyond education and as a social project.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid plans that 80% of his city will be available to everyone within a 20-minute sustainable bus, train, walk, or bike journey.
Wild boars are slowly taking over a city in Israel. Over the last 10 years it seems that the sightings of the hairy and strong wild animals have multiplied by double or more.
Hey ma, I've run away and joined a sustainable sea circus. Find me on a Greek island somewhere.
Hermes pop-up shop Petit h creates a falcon stand for Dubai mall shop
A never-before-seen look at bathroom physics.
Track the greenhouses gases of Saudi and Omani sheiks, kaisers and oligarchs as their yachts pollute without repentance.
It's a whale of an idea. A biodegradable plastic that returns to the earth with a little bit of help.
He thought he was doing a good deed but it turns out a man in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) mistook a fox for a dog. The Arabian fox was caught and brought to the shelter and surprised the staff
The Rig is a revamped oil rig off the coast of Saudi Arabia, to be steam-punked into 3 hotels, 800 rooms, 11 restaurants, a roller coaster, a water slide, a Ferris wheel
Malaria threatens Europeans as the world warms
House of Saud's original palaces now opens to the public at Turaif. The site is important to Islam as the birthplace of Wahhabism, an austere form of Islam.
Saudi Arabia Ceer gets land for its homegrown electric vehicle.
Like the original Quant luxury car prototype we covered, the Quantino runs on a special kind of non-toxic saltwater mixture that the company calls bi-ION electrolyte.
Those attending the World Cup in Qatar may be culture-shocked into learning that alcohol is banned in Muslim countries. Why is this?
A new app helps consumers and stakeholders trace ESG policies and practices of luxury goods
An Israeli artist demonstrates against food waste through snail mail and an elaborate feast he created from food bin waste
Cholera always sounds like an epidemic of the past, but it's becoming a public health emergency in Lebanon and Syria as the bacteria spreads.
Le Petit Robert, the popular single-volume French dictionary, hasadded the word labn, also pronounced as labneh or "labaneh" to its latest 2023 edition.
An Italian architecture firm has presented a Vertical Forest skyscraper plan for Dubai. The same firm built the two towers of Bosco Verticale in Milan.Vertical Forest Dubai, rendering by Stefano Boeri Architetti
The mayor of Hebron needed to get rid of stray dogs and win favor before the elections. His idea? A $6 bounty for every dead dog's body.
Mushroom companues unite Quorn, Mush FOods, Natures Fynd, Enough, The Better Meat Co., The Protein Brewery, Prime Roots, Mycotechnology, Aqua Cultured Foods, and Mycorena, plus NGOs ProVeg and The Good Food Institute.
The Islamic regime in Iran has lost its head and control over women who refuse to wear the Islamic state's stringent dress codes, and the hijab.
Since Saudi Arabia's prince and prime minister decided to expand Saudi Arabia's tourism to include westerners, desert and historical tourism was top of the list.
Eviation Aircraft, an Israeli-American venture of for an all-electric aircraft, announced this week that it has surpassed $2 billion USD in orders for its 9-seater all-electric Alice airplane.
The ancients used desert kites, or a sort of mega-trap to catch their prey. The structures seen from up high in the sky were named 'kites' by aviators in the 1920s.
The worlds leading sustainability initiative for cotton,Better Cotton, has issued a stark warning to leaders during COP27.
The prince of Saudi Arabia wants his very own car company and just announced Ceer, the country's first electric vehicle company, which should attract over $150M foreign direct investment and is expected to be available by 2025.
Artificial city lights are a "turn off" to crickets who sing love songs to their mates. A new study from the University of Haifa in Israel has found that even low levels of artificial lighting at night cause an interruption in the biological clock of male crickets. This may lead to extinction of the species, the researchers speculate.
So the world's largest climate event, COP27, now happening in Egypt meets the usual challenges. A few key points stick out.
Why did the ancients, our ancient ancestors mark major byways with thousands of burial monuments? Why are they shaped like pendants and what stories do they tell?
As the earth feels the effects of climate change and energy bills continue to rise, taking steps to make your home more sustainable and eco-friendly can save you money and help protect the planet.
Fall is a great time to go biking. Some trails have bike paths through beautiful foliage. Find out the best bike tours that are perfect for this fall.
Multidisciplinary artist Muhannad Shono has been selected to represent Saudi Arabia at BiennaleArte 2022 in Venice with his installation, The Teaching Tree
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