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World Bank Warns Arab World About Action on Climate Change

Consequences of climate change especially acute in the Arab world, and traditional methods for coping with climate are severely stressed finds new World Bank...

Activists Call for a ‘Robin Hood Tax’ to Boost Climate Change Fund

Activists have gathered at the global COP18 climate event in Doha, Qatar to press negotiators to put aside money from a 'Robin Hood tax" to...

Turkey Wins “Fossil of the Day” Award At Doha Climate Change Negotiations

With the world's fourth largest number of planned coal-fired power plants, Turkey is flouting international concern about climate change. As the United Nation's climate change...

USA Fracking Will Top Saudi Oil Production in Five Years

The United States is poised to become the world’s largest oil producer by 2020 thanks to increased output of new exploration technologies such as...

A 1,700 Gigaton Carbon Bomb is Thawing in the Permafrost

Negotiators working on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol in Qatar ought to know that 1,700 gigatonnes of carbon lie buried in the permafrost,...

Israel Strengthens Environmental Ties to Africa: Part 2

Investing in African Agriculture This past April, MASHAV, Israel’s agency for international development cooperation, signed a memorandum of understanding with the United States Agency for...

COP18 Host Could Be Swallowed Up by Rising Seas

A sea level rise of 100 inches or eight feet in Ar Ru'ays, a city at the northern tip of Qatar, would render 100...

Israel Strengthens Environmental Ties to 44 African Nations

Israel now has relations with 44 African nations, more than at any time in the country's history. “This is the dawning of a new...

Hydroelectric Dam Threatens “Ecological Massacre” in Turkey

The Aras River basin is home to more than half of Turkey's bird species, but a planned hydroelectric dam would alter the river's marshy...

COP18 Updates – Women, Students & A President Courting Oil

Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiyah, who is the president of the COP18 got a thorough telling off for courting big oil executives in the lead...

Turkey Closes New Onshore Oil Well Near Cypriot Village After Water Turns Black

Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz walks to the podium to speak during a ceremony marking the start of exploratory oil and gas drilling by...

Qatar’s Solar-Powered Convention Center Cuts COP18 Carbon

Every year it's the same thing. Hundreds of delegates from around the world fly somewhere to agree to climate change solutions. Journalists bemoan the lack...

Egypt’s Position For COP18 Explained

The last global climate meetings weren’t considered very successful in finding an acceptable successor to the Kyoto-protocol, one with emission targets that would include...

Trash Talk in the Middle East- Interview with Salman Zafar

We speak to waste management expert Salman Zafar about the region's mounting trash problem and why it's outpacing all efforts to deal with it A...

Egypt and MENA Set to Exploit Solar Power?

Egypt and sunshine. The two go hand in hand. Ask any tourist, or come to that, any solar panel maker pulling in the profits....

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