Energy

Jordan moves ahead on its first solar PV project – worth 52MW

Jordan's National Electric Power Company (NEPCO) has finally signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with US-based First Solar Inc. and the Shams Ma'an...

Learn from Morocco at sunny solar MENASOL conference in Dubai

The companies Acciona and TSK will be meeting in Dubai to discuss the challenges and opportunities of constructing the Noor I CSP plant in...

The best reason for growing rhubarb that we’ve ever heard

While we contemplate whether GMO engineers can free our world from its glaring lack of light emitting houseplants and radiant pigs, we overlook far...

Would you use glowing plants or glo-pigs to replace street lamps?

Biotechnology company Bioglow has developed the world's first autoluminescent (light producing) plants. The US-based company’s vision is developing ornamental plants that serve as green alternatives to...

Dream green awards for oil companies

Saudi Aramco, the world's largest oil and gas producer and most valuable company estimated at $10 trillion USD, pockets three of the six environmental awards during...

100 million trees dry, rather than green, the UAE’s western desert

In an attempt to 'greenify' the UAE's Western Region desert, (some claim in the hope of creating a milder micro-climate in the UAE) more...

Energiya Global to solar power up 8% of Rwanda using clean energy

  Yosef Abramowitz is always up to something good. The Israeli-American solar energy pioneer and cofounder of Arava Power Company in Israel, has begun making...

BrightSource’s Ivanpah, the world’s largest solar thermal project, is live

It has been a long, controversial and expensive road for BrightSource Energy, but their 392 megawatt concentrating solar plant is now finally delivering renewable...

NASA photos reveal scale of massive London Array wind farm

The world's largest wind farm in the outer Thames estuary has the capacity to deliver power to 500,000 homes and offset 925,000 tonnes of...

Desert plants fed with saltwater produce amazing new biofuel for Boeing and Etihad

In 2012, the world's airlines transported three billion people, emitting 689 million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere. To mitigate the aviation industry's future...

Cyprus gets new desalination plant with Mekorot Israel’s know-how

Fresh water shortage issues are virtually normal now in the Eastern Mediterranean, especially in Cyprus, which has worse water shortage problems than Israel, Syria...

Sushi nukes? Watch what imported Japanese fish you eat

Do you like to eat imported sea fish, especially those like supposedly banned Bluefin tuna? Following the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown disaster, many...

Ormat adds another geothermal power plant to America

Ormat Technologies, one of the world's leading geothermal green energy power plant companies, has already tapped the earth's geothermal energy sources in Europe,  the...

Enlightened Kuwait boycots IRENA energy event over Israel

In another "interesting' move for the planet, Kuwait decided to boycott an international energy event in Abu Dhabi because Israelis would be there. This...

Abu Dhabi gives 6 rural communities $41m for off grid power anywhere

The international renewable energy group IRENA announced the first six recipients of concessional loans for off grid renewable energy projects that are "ready for the...

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One of the World’s Biggest Candy Companies Became a Leader in Cocoa Science

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The Lost Art of Jewish Herbalism: How Plants, Memory and Diaspora Kept a Living Tradition Alive

Jewish herbalism is experiencing a revival as educators like Naomi Spector uncover centuries of plant knowledge preserved through the diaspora. Blending the wisdom of Maimonides, Ashkenazi and Sephardi traditions, and remedies passed from generation to generation, this forgotten ecological heritage reveals how Jewish communities adapted to new landscapes while keeping their cultural identity rooted in the natural world.

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One of the World’s Biggest Candy Companies Became a Leader in Cocoa Science

Most people know Mars for M&M's and Snickers. Few realize the company has spent four decades researching cocoa flavanols and sustainable cocoa science. After six days testing CocoaVia with pioneers of Toronto's raw food movement, Green Prophet explores the surprising story behind one of the world's most researched cocoa supplements.

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The Lost Art of Jewish Herbalism: How Plants, Memory and Diaspora Kept a Living Tradition Alive

Jewish herbalism is experiencing a revival as educators like Naomi Spector uncover centuries of plant knowledge preserved through the diaspora. Blending the wisdom of Maimonides, Ashkenazi and Sephardi traditions, and remedies passed from generation to generation, this forgotten ecological heritage reveals how Jewish communities adapted to new landscapes while keeping their cultural identity rooted in the natural world.

Finding Your Sea Legs Aboard the Neptun of Marstal

The Neptun of Marstal is more than a restored Danish sailing ship. Operated as a non-profit sail-training organization, it invites people of all ages to swap screens for sails, learn traditional seamanship and discover how caring for the sea begins by experiencing it firsthand. Along the way, strangers become crewmates, old maritime skills are kept alive, and the voyage offers a powerful lesson in environmental stewardship, cooperation and the enduring value of learning by doing.

Canada’s Beluga Rescue Is No Free Willy. Those Whales Will Never Go Home.

Six beluga whales have begun leaving Canada's shuttered Marineland, but they aren't returning to the wild. Here's why the park closed and where the whales are going.

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efore exploring treatments, it helps to understand why hair falls. Hair loss isn't one condition — it has different causes, and those causes affect which treatments actually work.

Dead Sea Scroll mystery may be solved by a calendar that lost touch with the seasons

The 364-day calendar did not disappear entirely. Instead, it may have survived as an ideal: a memory of perfect time at Creation and perhaps a calendar to be restored in the End of Days.
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