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Meat laundering, Middle East style

Israel's dubious meat industry gets more sickening: we've already covered exposes of poultry fed with feces and pumped with toxic contaminants. Now it's all about beef...

First bitcoin ATM in the Middle East opens in Israel

BITBOX will launch the Middle East's first bitcoin ATM tomorrow evening local time in Tel Aviv. The specialized vending machine allows even novice bitcoin users to both...

Original Unverpackt: zero plastic, zero packaging at new Berlin supermarket

We're accustomed to seeing food in bulk at souqs throughout the Middle East, but shoppers always leave with a legion of plastic bags to carry their...

China buys Israel’s largest food producer putting Zionists on edge

Sensational food production issues in Israel are covered by Green Prophet. These issues have included exposure of cruelty in the meat industry; frozen fish from...

Arab investors and land grabbers wanted by Egypt

Egypt plans to lease 25,000 hectares of agricultural land to Arab investors. Agriculture minister Ayman Abu Hadid made the announcement in Tunis recently. Egypt is...

Abu Dhabi’s Masdar appoints new leaders

Masdar CEO Sultan Al Jaber is moving on to "greener" pastures, according to a statement released by Abu Dhabi investment giant Mubadala. The firm...

Egypt runs to Saudi for help over Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam

When all else fails, run to wealthy Saudi Arabia. That seems to be the prevailing thought among Egyptian officials at a loss to resolve the...

Waterways helps water tech make “soft” landing in Africa

Ask any African who lives off the land, and they’ll tell you that water is life. But when the wells and rivers dry...

Masdar sues Spain over solar energy subsidy cuts

Masdar has sued the Spanish government.  The multi-pronged company funded in part by the government of Abu Dhabi helped build the world's first 24/7 solar...

Will burning birds shut down Brightsource, world’s largest solar thermal power plant?

The switch was flipped this week as California's Ivanpah solar thermal power plant went live. The 392 megawatt concentrating solar plant (CSP) is now...

Menasol Dubai answers key financing questions for Middle East CSP solar projects

Key investors in renewable energy for the Middle East and North Africa regions will be on hand to discuss the criteria for securing project...

Morocco’s Berbers take on Africa’s richest silver mine – and the king

Africa's largest silver mine has been operating in the Atlas mountains since 1969, but the Berber people living in the surrounding villages remain among...

$9 billion in 2,000 MW solar investment streams into Morocco

The bone-dry plains of the Western Sahara may be no place to plant a garden, but their extreme solar irradiance values render them ideal...

Oil-rich Abu Dhabi to mobilize climate action at UN Climate Summit

Abu Dhabi will host high level talks in advance of the UN Climate Summit in New York later this year. Albeit one of the...

Google buys home sensor Nest for $3.2 billion

I own a Smart TV, but it doesn't connect or operate through a very smart interface. I have heating for my home, but it...

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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.

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Ancient Jewish New Year for Animals revived with global campaign against factory farming

Jewish Vegan Life has launched a global campaign celebrating the New Year for Animals, with synchronized events in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Montreal and Jerusalem, alongside an international livestream on August 9 featuring partners including Mercy for Animals, The Good Food Institute and Freedom Farm Animal Sanctuary.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.
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