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Rapid Gulf Growth Wrecking Ecological Havoc

Imagine a rapidly growing tourist paradise, but set in the path of a "freeway" line of oil tankers constantly moving through the Gulf region, shipping out a third of the world's oil, polluting the coastline, and you can begin to imagine the scope of the problem assessed by the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health in Toronto.

Op Ed: Don’t Let Money Rob Egypt’s Green Building Success!

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Dutch Company Floats New Idea for Artificial “World” Island Investors

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Turkey’s Most Sustainable Cities Share A Spotlight

Gaziantep is the only city in Turkey with its own climate change action plan.  Everything from sustainable agriculture to waste-to-energy technology will be on the...

Greenpeace Israel Begins Urban Recycling Campaign

Greenpeace Israel calls on Jerusalem and other municipalities to stop recycling their promises and start recycling trash. Recycling has improved over the past decade in...

Morocco to Pioneer 1 GW Hydro-Wind Hybrid Power

A huge hydro-wind hybrid power station will double Morocco's entire installed hydropower capacity - and be a world's first. Morocco is developing a project that...

#Occupy Climate Change: The Arab Spring & Occupy Wall St. Movement

What do the Occupy Wall Street protests and the Arab Spring have in common? A desire for radical change The Arab Spring protests which swept through...

Urban Beehive So You Can Make Healthy Honey at Home

Philips has created a plastic, urban beehive. Honey, I am home! When I told my husband that I want to build an urban beehive on...

Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa: Why The Middle East Needs Eco-Activism

In memory of the murdered Nigerian environmental activist who campaigned against Shell, we look at the importance of environmental action in the Middle East...

Burj built without thinking where the poop would go

After having a hefty meal at the restaurant on the top of the World's Tallest Building in Dubai... you excuse yourself from the table...

Masdar’s Sustainability Begins with Design, But Where Are the Humans?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILlF34KJMJwTake a new tour through the Masdar Institute with this video. Modeling traditional Arabic cities and using old innovation like windcatchers, Masdar has become an...

Solar Power to Pay off Greek Debt?

Helios, the sun god of ancient Greece could help Greece get out from under. Here's a surprise twist. The economic woes in Europe due to...

Tripoli Goes Car Free, If Only for a Day or Two

Walk in a car-free Tripoli this Sunday. Be prepared for some carbon monoxide withdrawal in Tripoli: Air pollution is Lebanon is getting bad. Local...

Love Thy Street Cleaner, in Beirut

A do-gooder designer in Beirut launches poster campaign to give respect to street cleaners. I aspire to see the day when we no longer...

Wintertime Droughts Increase Due To Climate Change

According to recent research, an increase in wintertime droughts in the Mediterranean is partly down to human-caused climate change Over the last 20 years, 10...

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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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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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