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Obama Touts Israeli-Developed Solar Company BrightSource

About to break ground later this month in California, and with an IPO in the horizon, US President lauds clean tech companies like BrightSource...

BP Deep Drilling In Libya Threatens Archeological Sites

Known for bulldozing archeology ruins into the sea, is it hello BP and bye bye Appolonia? Libya's ancient archeological sites under threat from offshore...

Can the Biolite Stove Generate Clean Cooking for the Middle East?

The Biolite stove cooks up dinner for a family of 5 using local wood and no electricity. Jonathan Cedar and his business partner, Alex Moss,...

No More Gas Exploration in Israel?

Will the sea outside Israel be calm again? Hopes and dreams of a gas bonanza in Israel came to a sudden halt as shares came...

Israel to Make Public Buildings More Energy Efficient – At No Cost to the Taxpayer

Energy will soon be used more judiciously at the Supreme Court (shown here) and other public buildings in Israel. The Israeli government has awarded...

With So Much Oil & Natural Gas, is Biofuel a Viable Mideast Fuel Option?

A prototype algae biomass farm. Will it work in the super dry Middle East? Biomass, a renewable energy source based on biological material from living...

World Bank Grants Egypt 1.2 Billion Egyptian Pounds For Wind Energy

With a little boost from the World Bank, Egypt hopes wind energy will provide 20% of energy needs by the end of the decade Although...

Ormat Geothermal Reports $1.5 Million Loss

Despite low 2nd quarter earnings, Ormat has secured $350 million in loan guarantees to develop renewable, geothermal energy plants Israeli-founded geothermal power company  Ormat Technologies...

Solar Power To The People Of Abu Dhabi

Will Abu Dhabi's citizens choose solar panels for their roofs when electricity prices go up? The residents of the United Arab Emirates capital, Abu...

Lebanese Op-Ed Calls Nuclear Energy In The Middle East A Fad

Lebanese writer says the Middle East's nuclear energy ambitions amount to a status symbol that should be replaced with decisions based on efficiency, safety,...

Spain to Provide $10 million for Solar Power Hospitals in Lebanon

A solar band-aid: Spain and the UN looks to create solar power heating, mainly water, for hospitals in Lebanon. Thanks to a contribution from...

Israeli Firm Gilatz To Build Another 2MW Solar Plant In Italy

Gilatz builds another solar plant in Italy, capitalizing on the country's hefty solar subsidies. Solar is going viral, and can be profitable too....

Masdar CEO Admits An End To Oil

Masdar's CEO acknowledges oil and gas are finite, yet the energy provider continues to exploit UAE's natural resources to fund renewable projects with the...

Givot's Premature Oil Production Near Rosh Ha'Ayin, Israel

Givot Olam Oil Exploration LP push to production without reservoir report or stable production rates. In the face of serious climate change, Israel's Petroleum Law (1952)...

Register Early For the "Smart Grids" Middle East Conference

Smart Grids are redefining the electricity future. Worldwide experts in the field will gather to share their know-how with the Middle East in Dubai...

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Was the Flydubai cockpit emergency an attempted terror attack — or a pilot in crisis?

What happened inside the cockpit of flydubai Flight FZ1073 on Wednesday morning is still under investigation, but the story has become considerably more disturbing since the first reports of a “fight between pilots.”

Two People, One Dataset, and a Disagreement Nobody Can Settle

Two people can look at the same sustainability dashboard and reach different conclusions. The problem is not necessarily the data, but whether anyone can trace how the number was produced.

Arabia Suburbia was adapted from the American blueprint for suburban living

Walk through almost any Saudi city today and one form dominates residential streets: the detached villa, sitting on its own plot, separated from its neighbors, usually surrounded by a wall and reached by car. It feels thoroughly Saudi. But much of the architectural DNA of the modern Saudi house comes from American suburbia.

Leen Kawas and the Work of Carrying Promising Medicines Forward

EIT Pharma CEO Leen Kawas is advancing lonafarnib for chronic hepatitis D, showing how stalled late-stage drug programs can be revived and carried toward regulatory review.

The Financial Impact of Meta Glasses on Europe’s Eyewear Market

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Was the Flydubai cockpit emergency an attempted terror attack — or a pilot in crisis?

What happened inside the cockpit of flydubai Flight FZ1073 on Wednesday morning is still under investigation, but the story has become considerably more disturbing since the first reports of a “fight between pilots.”

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Two people can look at the same sustainability dashboard and reach different conclusions. The problem is not necessarily the data, but whether anyone can trace how the number was produced.

Arabia Suburbia was adapted from the American blueprint for suburban living

Walk through almost any Saudi city today and one form dominates residential streets: the detached villa, sitting on its own plot, separated from its neighbors, usually surrounded by a wall and reached by car. It feels thoroughly Saudi. But much of the architectural DNA of the modern Saudi house comes from American suburbia.

Leen Kawas and the Work of Carrying Promising Medicines Forward

EIT Pharma CEO Leen Kawas is advancing lonafarnib for chronic hepatitis D, showing how stalled late-stage drug programs can be revived and carried toward regulatory review.

The Financial Impact of Meta Glasses on Europe’s Eyewear Market

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Why Pest Control Has to Be Local: Mira Home on How Climate and Geography Change Pest Pressure Across America

Why pest control needs to adapt to local climate, moisture, building patterns and pest pressure rather than rely on one national treatment plan.

Brad Pitt walked the red carpet with rescue dogs. Why isn’t rescue just the default?

The film itself is about a Special Forces officer, played by Pitt, stranded in the Alaskan wilderness with his combat dog Odin after a plane crash. Odin is played by Uber, a highly trained German shepherd from a military and law-enforcement breeding line.

Beavers are moving into the Arctic, and they are rewiring the tundra

“Beavers effectively write their history into the landscape with each shrub they cut and every pond they create by damming streams,” said lead author Dr Georgia Hole, who carried out the research at Anglia Ruskin University and is now based at Durham University.
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