Energy

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...

Saudi Oil Wells May Run Dry By 2030

According to a 150-page report by Citigroup, Saudi Arabian oil could dry up as early as 2030 which is a lot sooner than previously...

Turkey Starts Buying Kurdish Gas Over Baghdad’s Objections

Defying the Iraqi central government, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has begun selling gas directly to Turkey. Crude oil sales will also begin soon. Five...

Bureaucracy Slows Israel’s Solar Energy Progress

Israel's research labs such as National Solar Energy Center,  Grand Technion Energy Program (GTEP) and companies such as Zenith Solar and Arava Power Systems...

Egypt’s Solar Decathlon Team Hits Madrid

The news that the American University of Cairo (AUC) would be the first from North Africa or the Middle East to participate in a US Department of Energy-sponsored Solar Decathlon competition was a source of great pride for all design and environment enthusiasts in our region.

Jordanian Activists Take To The Streets For A Sustainable Future

Activists gathered on the streets of Amman today to say 'No' to nuclear energy and 'Yes' to renewables Following years of anti-nuclear campaigning and (more...

Turkey’s Economic Growth Hampered By Oil Addiction, Analysts Say

Rising international petroleum prices are bad news for Turkey, which imports 90 percent of the oil it consumes. Turkey's dependence on imported oil has already...

Egypt’s Electricity Suppliers Struggle to Meet Demand

On August 9th an electrical power outage hit people in parts of Cairo.  This happened only ten days after India's massive blackout grew to...

Turkish Cabinet Invokes Wartime Law To Seize Property For Hydro Projects

The more than 20 hydroelectric projects that Turkey has built on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers have been sharply criticized for displacing populations and...

Qatar Eco-Summit Spotlights Environmental Safety

8th annual Health, Safety and Environment Forum in Energy happens in Doha from October 8 -10 Accidents associated with oil and gas operations endanger human...

Plans For Turkey’s First Nuclear Power Plant Revealed

Located in the southern province of Mersin, on the Mediterranean Sea, the Akkuyu nuclear plant has been controversial since it was first proposed in...

Nuclear Updates from Jordan, Egypt and the UAE

From growing protests in Jordan and Egypt to the first ever approved plant in UAE – we have the latest on nuclear from the...

Novel-tee Charges Your Phone, Someday

Charging our clothes to credit cards is nothing new.  Now our clothes may be doing the charging. Scientists at the University of South Carolina (USC)...

Turks Trade Gold for Iran’s Energy Allegiance

To continue feeding its addiction to Iranian oil, Turkey exported eight times as much gold to Iran in the first five months of 2012...

Biofuel from Plastic for this Young Egyptian Scientist from Alexandria

Azza Abdel Hamid Faiad was the winner of the 2011 European Union Contest for Young Scientists for finding a new way of turning plastic into biofuel. A sixteen-year-old...

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Jewish Vegan Life has launched a global campaign celebrating the New Year for Animals, with synchronized events in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Montreal and Jerusalem, alongside an international livestream on August 9 featuring partners including Mercy for Animals, The Good Food Institute and Freedom Farm Animal Sanctuary.

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Canada’s healthcare became the world’s digital health laboratory. Now Europe is taking notice

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Ancient Jewish New Year for Animals revived with global campaign against factory farming

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Canada's healthcare system may be under pressure, but its decades-long experience with digital transformation is becoming a model for Europe and beyond. In an interview with Nordic's Alison MacDonald, Green Prophet explores why successful AI in healthcare depends less on software than on empowering clinicians, improving workflows and building resilient systems.

Jewish Climate Network founded so innovators don’t leave their identity at the door

Rather than retreating from climate change work, the Jewish Climate Trust organization has backed a new initiative designed to strengthen both climate action and Jewish community.

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A rooftop solar system looks simple: panels, an inverter, a battery and a few cables. But beneath that simplicity lies a bill of materials thousands of lines long, where tiny current sensors, magnetic cores, gate drivers, capacitors and connectors quietly determine efficiency, safety and lifespan. These overlooked components—not the solar panels themselves—are why today's residential solar systems are smaller, smarter and far more reliable than those of a decade ago.

Teen Farmerettes were Canada’s answer to Victory Gardens during wartime food shortages

It is a wake-up call to teen girls on TikTok planning their next Coachella outfit or trip to Sephora: During the Second World War, thousands of young men left family farms to enlist, but the crops still needed planting and harvesting. Ontario's government answered by recruiting high school girls, from ages 16 to 18, to spend parts of spring, summer and fall to fill in for the labor shortage. 

The Early Believers: Investors Who Backed SpaceX Long Before Its Record IPO

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From eco city experiment to global clean energy giant: How Masdar became the UAE’s renewable energy powerhouse

Masdar began as an ambitious eco city in the Abu Dhabi desert. Two decades later, it has become one of the world's largest renewable energy developers, financing billions of dollars in solar, wind and battery storage projects across the globe.
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