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Linda Pappagallo
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Know your fig varieties from Syria, Lebanon and Iran
The strong grey trunk, the wide velvety leaves, the sticky itchy white milk resin that leaks from the cracked leaves, its round crimson fruits with...
First Earth Architecture festival in Iran would make Nader Khalili proud
Iranian architect Nader Khalili, founder of the California Earth and Architecture Institute and proponent of the- dare we say- revolutionary SuperAdobe building technique, would be proud....
Shale gas “fracking” in the Sahara is worse for water
Shale gas exploitation in the Sahara is not the same as shale gas exploitation in the US. There are added complications, namely the dependence of...
How vegan demand for agar is killing Morocco’s red seaweed
The quinoa craze turned what was once a cheap, nourishing staple diet for Bolivians and Peruvians into an unaffordable grain for many of the poor...
Breast milk reveals how many banned pesticides plague Tunisians
Rachel Carson would be shocked: A recent study has found that the concentrations of banned chemicals like PCBs, DDT and organochlorines found in human breast milk of...
Why donkeys should be the new garbage truck
Tunisians are famous the world over for trash selfies. Now simple calculations made by this Green Prophet shows that Tunisia, and many other countries in...
Tunisia’s phosphate town is dying over our addiction to phosphorus
Today Redeyef, Tunisia, is quite a scene: it’s a decrepit French colonial houses are surrounded by mountains of black phosphate sand, radioactive water lakes and its...
Tunisia’s eco-conscious start-up: Exploralis
As I enter Arafet Ben Marzou’s new “office” at the top floor of an apartment building facing the lakes in Tunis, I am met with...
Sand and Salt Siege film to highlight Tunisia’s eco struggles
A Siege of Salt and Sand (trailer), a new documentary film about Tunisia, promises to be an important motivator in redefining the current political agenda towards...
Mysterious mass fish die-off in Tunisia sparks world-ending debate (video)
Earlier this month several Tunisians in Hammamet, Sphax and Mahdia woke up to their beaches infested with dead fish and jelly fish, a beached whale...
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