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Electronic Cigarette Kills Toddler in Israel

The Israeli ministries are urging people to give up smoking and a recent government report has found that both the heavy smokers in the...

Qatar’s Oryx Island to Offer Five Floating Hotels for 2022 World Cup

When football enthusiasts flock to a World Cup venue, they expect more than a tent out in the desert to rest their weary heads,...

Eco Guide to Israeli Products Launched

Hail hail to the genius who decided it was time to cut the greenwash from the eco marketplace in Israel. Every product and its...

Urbin Beirut Crushes Stinky Cigarette Butts in Style

Cigarette butts are gross - whether they drift onto beaches, pollute our waterways, or endanger wildlife. But many cities in the Middle East, where...

Architects Embrace Iranian History at the Tabriz Bazaar

Head to the heart of any Middle Eastern city and find a vibrant commercial hub, usually in the shadow of a major mosque -...

Futuristic Dubailand Theme Park City Growing Ahead With $55 Billion

It's a fact that Disneyland fits inside Disney World's parking lot.  Now double up Disney World and you almost match the planned footprint of...

Barcelona Rejects Soaring Dubai-Style “Space Hotel”

A US developer recently approached Barcelona City Hall with plans to build a soaring Dubai-style "Space Hotel" complete with a zero gravity spa, but...

Cairo’s Waste-Eating Pigs Make a Quiet Comeback

In 2009 during the height of the swine flu epidemic, Egyptian law officials ordered the culling of thousands of pigs belonging to the Coptic...

Big Oil’s Saudi Aramco Builds LEED Certified Homes in Riyadh

KAPSARCs architects, the American design firm HOK, and the US Green Building council worked for a number of years to establish a pilot program. KAPSARC is among the first to participate.

Dubai Readies Law to Let Home Owners Feed Energy to the Grid

With Dubai’s government close to finalizing legislation, property owners in the Emirate may soon have the option to feed solar power into the grid...

2013 Aga Khan Architecture Awards Betters Muslim Communities in Iran, Morocco and Lebanon

The nominees for the 2013 Aga Khan Award for Architecture were recently announced: 20 candidates - half hailing from the Middle East - all...

Tangram 2022 World Cup Stadium Cools Itself Like a Lizard

Tangram Gulf recently unveiled a naturally-cooled FIFA stadium design for the 2022 World Cup in Doha, Qatar. Speaking at Construction Week Qatar, general manager Nigel...

Ancient Moroccan Granaries Revived as Thriving Civic Centers

Salima Naji has been recognized by the Aga Khan Development Network for her efforts to revive a series of earth buildings in the lesser Atlas...

Oman’s Sustainable GU Tech Campus Scoops Coveted Construction Prize

Oman is a small nation bordering Abu Dhabi on the Arabian peninsula; it has a long coastline and one of the largest populations of...

How ertex Integrates Solar cells into Middle East Buildings

Green Prophet interviews Dieter Moor, the CEO of ertex – a building integrated photovoltaic company which recently completed a roof-based system for the the Sheik...

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The Space Orchestra, and the search for extraterrestrial life, to eclipse celebration

The event will livestream eclipse views from Iceland and northern Spain, where the eclipse will be total, while the 35-member International Space Orchestra, made up of astronauts, scientists, engineers, and researchers—performs a new orchestral interpretation of Voyager by PJ Harvey.

Canada’s healthcare became the world’s digital health laboratory. Now Europe is taking notice

Canada's healthcare system may be under pressure, but its decades-long experience with digital transformation is becoming a model for Europe and beyond. In an interview with Nordic's Alison MacDonald, Green Prophet explores why successful AI in healthcare depends less on software than on empowering clinicians, improving workflows and building resilient systems.

Jewish Climate Network founded so innovators don’t leave their identity at the door

Rather than retreating from climate change work, the Jewish Climate Trust organization has backed a new initiative designed to strengthen both climate action and Jewish community.

The Hidden Components Powering the Renewable Energy Revolution

A rooftop solar system looks simple: panels, an inverter, a battery and a few cables. But beneath that simplicity lies a bill of materials thousands of lines long, where tiny current sensors, magnetic cores, gate drivers, capacitors and connectors quietly determine efficiency, safety and lifespan. These overlooked components—not the solar panels themselves—are why today's residential solar systems are smaller, smarter and far more reliable than those of a decade ago.

Teen Farmerettes were Canada’s answer to Victory Gardens during wartime food shortages

It is a wake-up call to teen girls on TikTok planning their next Coachella outfit or trip to Sephora: During the Second World War, thousands of young men left family farms to enlist, but the crops still needed planting and harvesting. Ontario's government answered by recruiting high school girls, from ages 16 to 18, to spend parts of spring, summer and fall to fill in for the labor shortage. 

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The Space Orchestra, and the search for extraterrestrial life, to eclipse celebration

The event will livestream eclipse views from Iceland and northern Spain, where the eclipse will be total, while the 35-member International Space Orchestra, made up of astronauts, scientists, engineers, and researchers—performs a new orchestral interpretation of Voyager by PJ Harvey.

Canada’s healthcare became the world’s digital health laboratory. Now Europe is taking notice

Canada's healthcare system may be under pressure, but its decades-long experience with digital transformation is becoming a model for Europe and beyond. In an interview with Nordic's Alison MacDonald, Green Prophet explores why successful AI in healthcare depends less on software than on empowering clinicians, improving workflows and building resilient systems.

Jewish Climate Network founded so innovators don’t leave their identity at the door

Rather than retreating from climate change work, the Jewish Climate Trust organization has backed a new initiative designed to strengthen both climate action and Jewish community.

The Hidden Components Powering the Renewable Energy Revolution

A rooftop solar system looks simple: panels, an inverter, a battery and a few cables. But beneath that simplicity lies a bill of materials thousands of lines long, where tiny current sensors, magnetic cores, gate drivers, capacitors and connectors quietly determine efficiency, safety and lifespan. These overlooked components—not the solar panels themselves—are why today's residential solar systems are smaller, smarter and far more reliable than those of a decade ago.

Teen Farmerettes were Canada’s answer to Victory Gardens during wartime food shortages

It is a wake-up call to teen girls on TikTok planning their next Coachella outfit or trip to Sephora: During the Second World War, thousands of young men left family farms to enlist, but the crops still needed planting and harvesting. Ontario's government answered by recruiting high school girls, from ages 16 to 18, to spend parts of spring, summer and fall to fill in for the labor shortage. 

The Early Believers: Investors Who Backed SpaceX Long Before Its Record IPO

SpaceX’s 2026 IPO didn’t just mint billionaires—it revealed the many forms of conviction behind one of the most doubted bets in venture history.

From eco city experiment to global clean energy giant: How Masdar became the UAE’s renewable energy powerhouse

Masdar began as an ambitious eco city in the Abu Dhabi desert. Two decades later, it has become one of the world's largest renewable energy developers, financing billions of dollars in solar, wind and battery storage projects across the globe.

Is the manosphere selling a testosterone crisis? Pentagon’s new “Low T” policy sparks debate

The Pentagon's decision to introduce annual testosterone testing for U.S. military personnel over 30 has sparked debate among doctors and public health experts. Researchers warn that social media influencers are turning normal signs of ageing into a "Low T" crisis, encouraging unnecessary hormone testing and supplementation while blurring the line between evidence-based medicine and marketing.
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