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Syria Brainstorms on Renewable Energy at International Event

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Enviromena Solar Company Awarded Enviro Prize, and Busts Arab Stereotypes

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Arab Company Agrobics Cleans Industrial Wastewater, Inspired By Olive Waste

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ENGEX Conference on Energy, Water, Transportation and the Environment Offers 10% Discount to Green Prophet Readers

EngEx, an organization of independent and nonpartisan engineers, believes that "enhanced communication, achieved through unity and constant exchange of research and dialogue, is the...

Lebanon Looks to "Smart Grid" and Renewable Sources to Generate 12% of Its Electricity by 2020

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Japan and Saudi Arabia Plan Giant Desalination Equipment Plant to "Freshen Up" Regional Water Supplies

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Kuwait Still Cleaning Up Environment After Saddam's Mess

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Israel prepares to combat greenhouse gas emissions

(Image via go-green.com) Israel’s cabinet approved a joint proposal by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Ministry of Finance on Sunday to formulate a...

Rethinking Climate Change Under the Middle East Sun

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SolarEdge and Flextronics Create Solar Energy Products – and Jobs

Israeli startup SolarEdge partners with NASDAQ-traded Flextronics (FLEX) to ramp up solar energy harvesting systems. Solar energy projects in Israel's northern sectors are sure to...

Last Call for Israeli Clean Tech Companies: Meet Dream Teams In California

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South Korea Looks to Collaborate With Israel on Renewable Energy

Shimon Peres from Israel and Lee Myung-bak from South Korea at Davos. (Image via Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.) A high-ranking delegation from South Korea...

Israel Seeks to Build Nuclear Power Plants With Arab Neighbors

A pan-Middle East nuclear power plan? Arabs and Israelis working together? While Israel continues to maintain a policy of ambiguity regarding its military nuclear capability,...

A New Solar Energy Source from the Common Pea

An Israeli scientist has found a way to pull solar energy from pea plants. If harnessing the unlimited solar power of the sun were...

Tap Into North Africa and Middle East Solar Opportunities at MENASOL

Destertec and Masdar (above) are heating up solar energy opportunities in the Middle East. Tap into this new energy at the 2nd Annual MENASOL...

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Australian camels fly on a plane to Saudi Arabia

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Australian camels fly on a plane to Saudi Arabia

Australia has the largest population of feral camels in the world. Some get repatriated to Saudi Arabia.

Elon Musk to create Mars base station on the Moon

For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years.

Are vegetarian babies at risk for growing shorter than kids who eat meat?

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Everything is better when you spend 5 days in a cave

She spent 5 days in a cave in the dark. See what it did to her body.

BM Studios is designing systems, not just buildings in the UAE

Balsam Madi is an architect and systems thinker whose work bridges culture, sustainability, and design intelligence across the Middle East and Europe.

Make nettle dumplings, also known as nettles malfatti

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Yalla Parkour – A Gaza documentary of the movement before the war

Yalla Parkour, directed by Areeb Zuaiter, captures this culture from within. The film follows Zuaiter’s long relationship with Ahmed Matar, a parkour athlete in Gaza, as she reflects on loss, memory, and belonging after the death of her mother. What begins as a personal search gradually opens into a portrait of how movement shapes young lives under constraint.

The holy sidr tree can stop desertification

Al-Rumaydh describes the Sidr less as a single organism and more as a working ecological unit. Its deep roots reach down toward groundwater, while lateral roots spread wide to catch surface moisture. Its dense canopy slows wind instead of blocking it abruptly, reducing erosion.
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