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Egypt Environment Activists Fighting Back Over Sinai Red Sea Bridge

 A bridge over troubled waters still being planned for Saudi Arabia and Sinai. About 20 dive sites will be lost, activists tell Green Prophet. A grassroots...

Polluting Paradise Documentary Follows Turkish Village’s Battle Against Invading Garbage

Polluting Paradise, the latest film by Turkish-German director Fatih Akin, documents the disgusting damage caused by a garbage dump near the Black Sea village of Çamburnu. Ten...

New Environmental Exhibit Inspires Hope for UAE’s Future

At the end of September an interactive multi-media exhibit, Eco Future, opened at Manarat Al Saadiyat in Abu Dhabi. The family-oriented exhibit presents children...

Israel’s Separation Barrier Could Disrupt Ancient Way of Farming Since Roman Times

Water from natural springs burbles in the ancient Roman stone aqueduct as it carries water downward to this village’s ancient terraces. Palestinian families grow...

Holy Mecca Will Be Saudi’s First Solar City

Saudi Arabia’s government has confirmed that it will develop and build a $640 million solar power plant in the holy city of Mecca. It...

Egypt Cuts Tax and Open Land to New Renewable Energy Investments

A flailing Egypt still aims for 20 percent renewables by 2020. Egypt’s Supreme Council of Energy last week pushed forward a new round of...

Abu Dhabi Behind Matt Damon Anti-Fracking Film

Perhaps floored that a subsidiary of the state-owned Abu Dhabi Media, Image Nation, could be behind such a high-quality production as Promised Land, a...

Kurdish Self-Rule Spreading in War-Torn Syria

Could a united Kurdistan mean a victory for the peoples' natural resources: energy, and mighty rivers? Against the backdrop of the civil war raging in...

Egypt’s Power Cuts Turn Blackouts Into Green Business

Meet Egypt’s new Solar Energy Association hoping to turn a country's power crisis into eco-innovation. It’s dark at an upscale Cairo café. It’s not closed...

Jordan Plunges Itself into a Giant Pit of Oil Shale Hell

Jordan has recently signed on with a Canadian company to plunge the Kingdom into a giant pit of oil shale hell. The Memorandum of...

Medical Tourism Boom in Jordan and United Arab Emirates

Catch some healing sun with your operation? The Middle East’s healthcare industry is booming. Rising healthcare costs in the United States and increased waiting periods...

Istanbul Deemed the ‘New London’ for Middle Eastern Investors

Turkey is reforming its property laws according to Reuters. Among other changes, new laws will double the amount of land foreigners are allowed to...

Abu Dhabi Turns to Natural Gas Green Transport

Abu Dhabi cars to run on compressed natural gas. The Abu Dhabi Food Control Authority (ADFCA) has converted 20 vehicles in its fleet of 500...

Turkey Ripe For Renewable Energy Boom – So Why The Delay?

Despite its vast solar and wind energy potential, Turkey's renewable resources have only been developed in small pockets of the country, such as the...

Jordan Websites Go Black to Protest Pending Censorship

Within 24 hours Jordan may become the latest Arab nation to muzzle media freedom if Parliament passes a bill to censor internet access in...

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Key Rules Recreational Cannabis Users Must Follow in Pittsburgh

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Ancient Roman strategy game figured out with AI

Two thousand years ago, someone scratched a web of lines into stone in a Roman settlement on the empire’s northern edge. Soldiers, traders, or locals passing time in Coriovallum—now Heerlen in the Netherlands, moved small counters across those lines in a tactical duel of blockade and entrapment.
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