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Abu Dhabi Cyclists Are A Riding Target

A tourist takes to Abu Dhabi's safe biking area - a smart choice! Cycling culture in Abu Dhabi is not well understood. Although it...

Meet Rawabi’s dreamer: Bashar Masri

We speak to Bashar Masri, the man behind Rawabi, which means "The Hills", Palestine's first planned and green city. Since announcing plans to build...

Former Masdar Director Says The UAE Must End Subsidies

Founding director of Property Development at the Masdar Initiative, Khaled Awad claims that fuel and water subsidies preclude meaningful sustainable development. Green building won't be...

Exclusive: Masdar City Open House Photos

The first Masdar city Market Street Fair and Organic Market was a huge hit among expats and Emiratis! Green Prophet was there. See exclusive...

Sabotaged Egyptian Gas Pipeline to Israel Shifts Energy Attention Offshore

Sabotaged Gas Pipeline: Relying on Egypt in future is doubtful Israel's interest in natural gas as an energy source has been written about several...

Stunning Resort In Abu Dhabi Desert Will Celebrate Bedouin Architecture

We applaud Dubarch's steps towards sustainability, but is a 70 hectare 5 star resort in no-man's-land a good idea? The Tourist Development & Investment Company...

Major Turkish Cities Fail Sustainability Survey

EskiÅŸehir, a center of industrial production in Turkey, is the country's most sustainable city, according to a recent survey. When businesspeople from 29 different cities...

How Math Can Make Greener Cities

Climatology models applied to urban planning could yield greener cities. If you have ever walked down the street in a city full of high rises...

Luxurious Chiseled Desert Lodge In Jordan Is Also Sustainable

This beautiful eco-lodge is chiseled into the side of Wadi Rum's dramatic red sandstone walls. Chad Oppenheim's design for an eco lodge in Jordan's desert...

Egypt Moving to Shore Up Delta Cities Against Sea Level Rise

In Alexandria, climate change threatens tourism From London and Rotterdam to Egypt's Alexandria, most of the world's great old cities were settled in river...

The Best Way To Preserve Water? Make It More Expensive

According to a report by the International Water Association, the low price of water is the main factor preventing water conservation in rural Jordan...

Giant Floating Olympic Stadium Could Save Tons Of Natural Materials

An Israeli architect designed an Olympic stadium that could travel the waterways from country to host country. Every four years a new country has the...

Al Ain Jungle School: Other UAE Institutes Are “Green” With Envy

The success of greening Al Ain's Liwa International school could have great environmental ramifications for other schools in the region. This could be...

Maritime Nuclear Energy May Still Be Worthwhile – To a Point

Russian nuclear icebreaker 50 Years of Victory: Can spend many months at sea With the nuclear power plant crisis in the Chernobyl reactor in 1986...

Emiratis Fear Dwindling Water Supplies Will Impact Future Generation

A rising number of Emiratis are concerned about water scarcity and what it could mean for future generations In the United Arab Emirate the average...

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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

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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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