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Epic winter storms have gold linings

A diving club struck gold on a recent expedition off the Mediterranean city of Caesarea, finding a priceless trove of coins dating back more...

Should ancient bones be up for sale? Shoppers in Dubai say yes!

But the story inside this story is that anyone with a full wallet can buy a full dinosaur (or downgrade to specific bones, teeth, or fossil imprints).

Iran Ice Houses Showcase Sustainable Refrigeration of the Ancients

Refrigeration is perhaps one of the greatest inventions of modern man, but it has come at a price. Not only do they require a...

Vandals Target Ancient Oaks and Pines With Chainsaw in Israel

In an interview with  local treehugger Oded Yaffe, who takes care of sick and injured trees all over Israel,  he told us at Green Prophet that he saw this sad news on TV and says that "whoever did this thing is really crazy, and can just as much kill someone on the road in a 'hit and run' incident."

Ancient Nabatean Wisdom to Push Back Desertification Today

Petra's pink city was built by water smart Nabateans. Ancient Jewish prayers still recited today include special mention of dew in the summer and rain...

Date Palms, Palmaculture and Greening the Middle East (INTERVIEW)

Palmaculture is a new name for an old concept – one which helped green the Middle East with traditional palm gardens called bustans For centuries...

Green Roof Architecture in Kuwait

When we think of Kuwait, not only do we have a hard time getting past the young hunter who killed a wolf and then posed for a series of family shots, but we also envision an unforgivable industrial landscape pocked with oil drilling platforms and desalination plants. While not entirely inaccurate, present day Kuwait belies a fertile past. Educators are hoping to reinvigorate "the Cradle of Civilization" with a new green roofed school designed by Perkins + Will that promotes hands-on agricultural learning.

The beehive homes of Syria

How do the Syrian beehive-shaped houses made out of mud manage to stay so cool in extreme desert conditions?

The Oldest Iranian Tree the Yadz Cedar Is Dying

Listed as one of the oldest trees in the world, the Iranian cedar of Yazd, is dying.

Passive cooling for Syria’s beehive houses

Way before there were electronic ways to condition our temperatures, cooling methods were built into the architecture of traditional Middle Eastern homes.  Such as the beehive homes found in Syria.

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Leen Kawas and the Work of Carrying Promising Medicines Forward

EIT Pharma CEO Leen Kawas is advancing lonafarnib for chronic hepatitis D, showing how stalled late-stage drug programs can be revived and carried toward regulatory review.

The Financial Impact of Meta Glasses on Europe’s Eyewear Market

Smart glasses are changing the economics of eyewear by turning conventional frames into higher-priced technology products. What used to be mainly a sale built around frame design, lenses, prescription needs and brand preference is now also a sale built around cameras, audio, AI features, app support and connected-device setup.

Why Pest Control Has to Be Local: Mira Home on How Climate and Geography Change Pest Pressure Across America

Why pest control needs to adapt to local climate, moisture, building patterns and pest pressure rather than rely on one national treatment plan.

Brad Pitt walked the red carpet with rescue dogs. Why isn’t rescue just the default?

The film itself is about a Special Forces officer, played by Pitt, stranded in the Alaskan wilderness with his combat dog Odin after a plane crash. Odin is played by Uber, a highly trained German shepherd from a military and law-enforcement breeding line.

Beavers are moving into the Arctic, and they are rewiring the tundra

“Beavers effectively write their history into the landscape with each shrub they cut and every pond they create by damming streams,” said lead author Dr Georgia Hole, who carried out the research at Anglia Ruskin University and is now based at Durham University.

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Leen Kawas and the Work of Carrying Promising Medicines Forward

EIT Pharma CEO Leen Kawas is advancing lonafarnib for chronic hepatitis D, showing how stalled late-stage drug programs can be revived and carried toward regulatory review.

The Financial Impact of Meta Glasses on Europe’s Eyewear Market

Smart glasses are changing the economics of eyewear by turning conventional frames into higher-priced technology products. What used to be mainly a sale built around frame design, lenses, prescription needs and brand preference is now also a sale built around cameras, audio, AI features, app support and connected-device setup.

Why Pest Control Has to Be Local: Mira Home on How Climate and Geography Change Pest Pressure Across America

Why pest control needs to adapt to local climate, moisture, building patterns and pest pressure rather than rely on one national treatment plan.

Brad Pitt walked the red carpet with rescue dogs. Why isn’t rescue just the default?

The film itself is about a Special Forces officer, played by Pitt, stranded in the Alaskan wilderness with his combat dog Odin after a plane crash. Odin is played by Uber, a highly trained German shepherd from a military and law-enforcement breeding line.

Beavers are moving into the Arctic, and they are rewiring the tundra

“Beavers effectively write their history into the landscape with each shrub they cut and every pond they create by damming streams,” said lead author Dr Georgia Hole, who carried out the research at Anglia Ruskin University and is now based at Durham University.

Top 5 Free Data Recovery Software of All Time

There is an old rule around computers that most of us learn only after something goes wrong: the most valuable part of your laptop is rarely the laptop. It is your stuff and all the data you accumulated along the way: the photographs, documents, unfinished work and years of digital debris stored inside it.

Food system’s biggest waste may be the farmers we don’t see: Hugh Locke’s new book

Whole Earth Farming: Smallholders and the Great Regenerative Transformation by Hugh Locke is published by George Ronald in September 2026.

Artists warm up former Cold War radio headquarters in Berlin as PEOPLE Festival embraces collaboration and spontaneity

PEOPLE Festival returns to Berlin’s Funkhaus this October, bringing 180 musicians together for a week of collaboration, improvisation and more than 200 one-off performances.
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