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Saudi Potato Battery Could Be Commercially Available in One Year!

Saudi researchers have produced a potato-powered battery that could be commercially available within the next year! Taking cues from a 2010 paper published by Israeli and American researchers...

OP ED: Bioplastics Will not Solve the Plastic Pollution Problem

Daniella Dimitrova Russo from the Plastic Pollution Coalition warns that bioplastics will not solve plastic pollution. Plastic pollution is one of the major issues facing...

Are ESLs A Mercury-Free Replacement for CFL Lights?

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Going Bananas Over Food Miles – Putting the Eco Back in Economics

Food miles explained: I know the best option is to grow and buy locally.  But when that isn't possible, what is the least worse option? It...

Sustainable Architecture In The Middle East – Interview with Karim Elgendy

We speak to Karim Elgendy, founder of the Middle East sustainability initiative 'Carboun' about what motivates his work and why green ratings for buildings...

Tektuğ Elektrik Group Enters Turkey’s Expanding Wind Energy Sector

German wind turbine manufacturer Nordex will construct eleven 2.5 MW turbines for the Tektuğ Elektrik Group's first wind project. This autumn, on a mountain ridge...

Egyptian Researchers Aim to Clear Landmines Using Bacteria and Plants

Egyptians researchers believe that sugar beets like those pictured above can help to clear the country's stockpile of land mines. 20% of the world's land...

Time to Drink Water From Air Con Units

Water from air! AC water conversion and treatment unit illustration. Photo: Watergen Ltd A while ago I wrote about the possibility of creating drinking or agricultural...

5 Technologies to Make Desalination More Efficient

People who live in Mideastern coastal cities might understand the despair expressed in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner: "Water, water every...

A Real Live Solar City Shines in Israel

A town in the Jezreel Valley, Israel prefers its weather sunny, and not only for clear blue skies and golden sunshine. Over 70 percent of...

Eilat Energy Conference Aims to Green A Desert And A Country

Israel's vast and dry southern Negev desert may actually help the country go green and just in time for the country's 2020 10% renewables...

US Researchers Clean Waste Water & Create Energy in One Generator

This machine cleans waste water and generates energy at the same time. Researchers from Pennsylvania State University have developed technology that treats waste water and...

CleanTech Group and WWF Name Israel as 2nd Top Cleantech Producer

Israel tops the global clean tech charts once again! A recent report compiled by Cleantech Group and the World Wildlife Fund shows that Israel is...

How Pink LEDs Grow Future Food with 90% Less Water

10,000 years after inventing agriculture, will we 7 billion take this strange next step?

Israeli Turbo Composter Makes Home Composting Easy

Do you keep a covered bucket in the kitchen for the organic garbage? If you do, you know only too well how awful it...

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Petra by Night returns as Jordan tries brings tourists back to Wadi Rum

The Nabataeans understood that prosperity in the desert depended on respecting environmental limits. Two thousand years later, Petra's greatest attraction may still be the wisdom of the people who learned to live within them.

At COP31, 350.org demands an end to fossil fuels, not another round of promises

From Bill McKibben to climate organizers across the Middle East, Green Prophet has followed 350.org for 16 years. At COP31 in Türkiye, the movement is demanding an end to fossil fuel expansion and a fair transition to renewable energy.

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One of the most persistent questions in seismology concerns whether scientists will eventually be able to predict major earthquakes before they happen.

Amman’s traffic crisis is about more than cars. It’s about how we think

I believe Jordan needs a cultural transformation alongside its infrastructure investments. We must begin by redefining social prestige. Why should ownership of an expensive car be considered a greater achievement than making an environmentally responsible transportation choice? Why should travelling by bus carry a social stigma?

When Bed Sores Turn Into Sepsis

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Best Abuse Law Firms for Holding Institutions Accountable

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