Comments on: Mega Urban Developments In Gulf Region A Natural Disaster Waiting to Happen

By: Trouble In Paradise: Water Failure At Luxury Apartments In Dubai « Dubai Fashion Week 2011 « Latest World Style

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 03:03:51 +0000

[...] sustainability and usefulness of Dubai’s artificial palm-shaped Island has been widely debated but I think a recent problem at one luxury complex has ironically helped [...]

By: Trouble In Paradise: Water Failure At Luxury Apartments In Dubai | Green Prophet

Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:13:05 +0000

[...] sustainability and usefulness of Dubai’s artificial palm-shaped Island has been widely debated but I think a recent problem at one luxury complex has ironically helped [...]

By: Dodeca Architects’ Temple Of Light Infuses Love And Healing | Green Prophet

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:02:23 +0000

[...] to imagine. Libyans are experiencing untold suffering as one man struggles to hold on to power, and natural disasters are taking an increasingly high toll everywhere. To understand such seeming senselessness, human [...]

By: More Signs Of Dubai’s Foul Ecology At Jumeirah Islands | Green Prophet

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:41:46 +0000

[...] apartment. Residents similarly pay a handsome sum to live at one of Dubai’s much-touted artificial palm islands. Within the last few years, despite warnings from environmentalists, people flocked to snatch a [...]

By: Rare Sea Turtles and Other Wildlife Living Happily on Persian Gulf Atoll | Green Prophet

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 06:40:03 +0000

[...] Gulf Island Projects are an Environmental Disaster Waiting to Happen AKPC_IDS += "20239,";Browse topics: Abu Dhabi, animal conservation, Persian Gulf [...]

By: Environmental Economics? Voice of the Nobelists | Green Prophet

Environmental Economics? Voice of the Nobelists | Green Prophet — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:07:16 +0000

[...] in the region, hugely capital-intensive projects like the Palm Islands (in Dubai), Masdar City (Abu Dhabi), Cedar Islands (Lebanon) and Burj Khalifa (Dubai) earthworks that are [...]

By: Karin Kloosterman: Abu Dhabi’s “Wondering Where the Lions Are” (And Why The Corals Won’t Come Back) | Ecomentality@LifeDrop

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:06:32 +0000

[...] doesn't take a whole lot of common sense to figure this one out: you build monolithic structures and artificial islands on a fragile seashore along the Persian Gulf, have oil tankers pulling petrochemicals from the land which leaks into the water. Add a little [...]

By: Karin Kloosterman: Abu Dhabi’s “Wondering Where the Lions Are” (And Why The Corals Won’t Come Back) | Blog All Over The World.com

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:03:58 +0000

By: Green Prophet’s Top 10 Middle East Environment News Stories of 2009 | Green Prophet

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:23:18 +0000

[...] The Gulf’s artificial islands are a disaster waiting to happen. When faced with a tsunami, or another natural disaster, it could be bye-bye to people and the [...]

By: AainaA-Ridtz A R

AainaA-Ridtz A R — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:42:40 +0000

Now I REMEMBER why I'm NOT attracted to DUBAI when I was there for IDEX – it reminded me of the FORBIDDEN City in Yemen http://bit.ly/64DOJK