Archive by category Travel & Nature

Traveling the green way is easy in the Middle East as most countries. Read this section to find the latest environmental travel and nature stories.

Loggerhead Turtles: Omani Kids Hit Masirah Island to Protect World’s 2nd Largest Population

Loggerhead Turtles: Omani Kids Hit Masirah Island to Protect World’s 2nd Largest Population

Oman is a small and increasingly popular country that borders Abu Dhabi, the home of Masdar City and the Shams 1 concentrated solar power plant,  and it is hosts the world’s second largest population of Loggerhead Turtles. Listed as vulnerable by the International Union of Conservation (IUCN), these marine turtles can weigh anywhere from 300 [...]

Amazing Pavegen Tiles Harvest Energy From Footsteps

Amazing Pavegen Tiles Harvest Energy From Footsteps

Paris marathon organizers plan on ripping off its runners!  Energy-harvesting tiles placed along an 80 foot section of the Champs Elysee will capture energy from the pounding feet of 40,000 racers.  The technology developed by Pavegen offers a tangible way for people to engage with renewable energy generation. The flexible tiles made from recycled truck tires [...]

Iranian Snipers Take Aim at Tehran’s Giant Mutant Rats

Iranian Snipers Take Aim at Tehran’s Giant Mutant Rats

Super-sized rats infesting Tehran are so huge that a special team of sharpshooters using night-vision-equipped rifles have been tasked with extermination. It sounds like a sci-fi B movie, but the problem is real. Rats have long plagued Iran, and the problem worsens when springtime arrives: melting mountain snows flood the critters’ nests, and millions are [...]

Mediterranean Sharks Almost Gone Forever

Mediterranean Sharks Almost Gone Forever

Mediterranean sharks risk extinction while “serious implications” feared for marine ecosystems and beyond. Accidental catches and sharks for fin soup are to blame Shark populations in the Mediterranean and Black Sea have dropped dramatically over the last two centuries and now risk extinction, with serious implications for the region’s entire marine ecosystem and food chains, [...]

37 Lions and Tigers Confiscated in Saudi Arabia

37 Lions and Tigers Confiscated in Saudi Arabia

Officials have confiscated 37 lions and tigers in Saudi Arabia, according to Arab News. The paper said that the National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development will be transferring the wild cats that had been illegally smuggled into the Kingdom over the last two years into facilities that comply with the Convention on International Trade in [...]

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