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Beirut Residents Revolt Against Plan to Destroy Iconic Massad Stairs

Beirut residents are fed up: everywhere they look there are cranes and bulldozers turning their city into a giant concrete mess and even the...

Greenhouse Gases Peak at Record Levels for 2012, Highest in 800,000 Years

Just in case you thought that UN's 95 percent certainty that climate change is happening is a gimmick, the same United Nations body assessing our...

Bridgette Meinhold Showcases Urgent Architecture Sustainably

How best to provide adequate housing when disaster strikes?  Weather-related calamity can be sudden - think earthquakes and tsunamis. It can be forewarned –...

Find secret green spots in Beirut

A group of activists in Beirut have teamed up with a local design agency to create the city's first map of green spaces. Beirut...

Amman, Jordan Named World’s 3rd Ugliest City

My hometown of Amman, Jordan has just been slammed as one of the least attractive cities on the planet. Online travel adviser U.CityGuide posted...

Enlight’s 58 MW Wind Farm Gets Israeli Approval for Golan Heights

It ain't Chicago, but Israel does have a little bit of wind potential on the Golan Heights. A local company called Enlight, which has...

Polluted Air Cancerous and Deadly, Like Asbestos says UN

It doesn't take a genius or a position paper to figure out that air pollution in cities and near industrial zones is toxic to...

World Food Day Rally Slams Chemical Giant Monsanto in Amsterdam

World Food Day, commemorated on October 16 is an annual event whose purpose is to find ways to alleviate hunger and malnutrition in various...

The Lagoons – Another Enormous Waterfront Development for Dubai

Dubai is getting another enormous development, except this time, Emaar Properties and Dubai Holding are pitching The Lagoons as an entrepreneurial and cultural hub for...

Moroccan Municipality Uses Graffiti as Pro-Society Tool

Historically, graffiti has been used to subvert authority or spread anti-social messages, but in Morocco, one municipality has turned the art form on its...

Kuwaiti Gaydar Test to Ban Gays Entry to Arab Countries?

Yousouf Mindkar, director of public health at the Kuwaiti health ministry, said that the routine clinical screening of expatriates coming into the GCC will include tests to identify LGBT people who will then be banned from entering the country.

Lebanon’s Toxic Sea-side Sidon Dump Gets Eco Makeover

Not that long ago, the city of Sidon (or Saida) in Lebanon moved its trash to the local Sidon dump, where the toxic landfill...

“Harassmap” for Israeli Girls in Desert Town to Report Sexual Assaults

Women studying in the city of Beersheva in Israel get a tool similar to Egypt's Harassmap. Local media is reporting that the college campus...

Algeria’s Controversial Love Lock Bridge Rebrands Suicide

Inspired by the "love lock" phenomenon that covers the Parisian bridge Pont des Arts, three Algerian journalists have kicked off conversion of a bridge...

Raft of Turkish Protests Remains Powerfully Afloat

International media is streaming updates on Syria, Big Brother antics by USA and UK intelligence services, and British buildings that can melt cars, but...

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