e-GEO satellite monitoring of Dubai’s Palm Island. Can technology protect the endangered Persian Gulf?
Saudi Arabia’s fragile desert and coastal environments will now get “help from above,” thanks to an initiative by a group of Saudi …

Projects like Dubai’s “The World” will cause untold damage of shoreline erosion and habitat loss. So do modern ports, threatening endangered species. But there are solutions, says US expert.
Coastal waters are evolutionary hotspots, says …

Green Jeddah project wants to teach Saudi youth importance of recycling, cleaning up toxic waste and pollution.
Saudi Arabia’s interest in environmental issues and projects is now being tailored to attract the country’s large youth …

The Arab world is getting dryer; Bin Laden blames the US and western globalization for climate change.
We’ve covered this topic before: the effects of climate change on a region of the world that in …

Predicting peak oil? Saudi water desalination plants like this one to be powered by the sun.
You would imagine that a desert country like Saudi Arabia would have to rely a lot on desalination for a …

Will Saudi Arabia’s IRENA Membership Help Influence  Environmental Change?
Saudi Arabia, a country which still contains much of the world’s remaining petroleum reserves, is now trying to put its environmental “money where its mouth is” by joining the …

Pizza Fusion, a US-based chain, proclaims itself as being committed to “saving the earth one pizza at a time.”  And now its slogan might ring more true.  Now that it has a stronghold in the …

To get the needle or not, that is the question some of us are asking. A researcher looking at bacteria model, says these ancient organisms wouldn’t mass immunize.
The swine flu is taking its toll …

Sewage on the streets of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, left more than 120 dead and questions about the country’s green credibility very much open to debate. Photo: Reuters.
We’ve covered the recent Hajj 2009 to Mecca in …

A water conference in Jordan was a call to arms in Arab world to fight water insecurity. Photo: Water tanks on the roofs of buildings in Madaba, Jordan.
There are people in over 17 Arab countries …