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MENA Will Need 120 Gigawatts of Energy by 2017, Masdar Expert Warns

The Middle East and North Africa region is going to need 120 gigawatts of energy by 2017, according to a leading figure at the...

Abu Dhabi: Biggest Polluter Turned Green Police

In October 2010, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) called out oil-producing Abu Dhabi for being one of the world's highest emitters of carbon dioxide per...

Lebanon’s Capital Suffers Nine Hour Extreme Power Cuts

Imagine for a second that Washington D.C., London, Brussels or Denmark ran out of power for up to nine hours every single day for...

Despite Ruinous Bridge, Saudi and Egypt Vow to Protect the Red Sea

Just months after announcing that the ruinous scheme to construct a land and sea bridge between Saudi Arabia and Egypt is still on track,...

Jewish Girls Gone Wild? Marijuana Lab Found in Haredi School

When authorities discovered a lab full of marijuana plants in a bomb shelter beneath an all girls Orthodox Jewish school south of Tel Aviv,...

Why the 400ppm CO2 Milestone is so Important

Charles David Keeling began recording CO2 levels at Hawaii's Mauna Loa Observatory in 1958, back when concentrations hovered at around 315 parts per...

IMF: Cut Energy Subsidies and Reduce Global CO2 by 13 Percent

Climate change is one of the most urgent issues of our time, yet most countries in the Middle East and North Africa continue to...

Arabs and Jews Cooperate in Israel to Get Drugs Out of the Water

Why should a Palestinian man care if an Israeli woman is taking birth control pills? A new Israeli peace project focusing on shared water...

Superpower “Laxative Nut” Jatropha Tree Could Solve Egypt’s Fuel Crisis

In Egypt, people often have to line up for hours to fill their cars and trucks with diesel fuel - particularly during summer months...

Tracking the Impacts of a Hydroelectric Dam Along the Tigris River

For the next two months, I'll be taking a break from my usual Green Prophet posts to report on a transnational environmental issue: the Ilısu Dam currently under construction in Turkey, and the ways it will transform life along the Tigris River.

Ladies of Solar Unite – at the Women Solar Seminar in Dubai

If it seems like there are just too many men receiving all the glory in the solar industry and not nearly enough women, then...

Will Israel’s Natural Gas Tap Flow to Turkey?

Improvement of Turkish and Israeli ties could make Istanbul a hub for Israeli natural gas deliveries to Europe The discovery and development of large natural...

Ormat to Provide 330 Megawatts of Geothermal Energy in Sumatra, Indonesia

Indonesia has 40 percent of the world's exploitable geothermal energy potential. A big congratulations to Ormat technologies of Yavne, Israel for signing a $254 million...

Burning Trash to Power 200 Island Homes in the Gulf

A small island off the coast of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates has announced plans to use the heat from burning trash...

Dead Sea Mining Company Plans Dubious Merger With Canadian ‘Natural Resource’ Firm

An Israel Chemicals Dead Sea mining plant; Photo by Haaretz/Ofer Vaknin Despite the recent heavy rains and flooding in Israel that helped replenish water in...

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

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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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