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Tunisia’s handmade tiles risk disappearing forever

The history of handmade tiles in Tunisia is fascinating. Green Prophet digs deep between the tiles of a rundown factory in Roman Neapolis, Nabeul,...

Blob Helps You Work and Store Stuff in Small Spaces (video)

Not ready for Christmas, just yet, this Israeli multi-purpose desk design and storage unit could be on a green shopper's list next year if...

Handmade Earthen Hookah Pipe Adds Class to Middle East Past Time

Everywhere in the Middle East, in cities or rural villages, you will inevitably find people sucking on tall, usually cheaply made shisha pipes made...

The Wheel House is a Tiny Home Tossed About by a Fictional Sea

What's it like to live on a boat? In such cramped spaces and always subject to nature's whim, otherwise reasonable people can go mad...

Flexible Solar Canopy to Cover Dubai’s 2020 Expo Pavilions

An enormous flexible canopy of photovoltaic cells will shade the pavilions at Dubai's 2020 expo, an innovative step towards greater energy efficiency for the...

Can Microsoft’s High-Tech Smart Bra Curb Appetite?

A day late and an undergarment short!  The morning after Thanksgiving, I read about a new stress-busting bra that could’ve kept me from, once...

Hundreds of Xerox Paper Strips Make Extraordinary Recycled Curtains

Israelis are well known for being industrious - especially when it comes to turning innocuous every day materials such as tomato cans, or in...

Comparing Qatar Stadium to a Vagina is “Ridiculous” Says Zaha Hadid

I never thought that I would agree with Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi starchitect who has failed time and again to support the green building...

Japan’s Sou Fujimoto Re-Imagines Doha with Modular Stacked Arches

Qatar is undergoing a massive change, and many of the world's top architects are hoping to become a part of the action. Zaha Hadid...

Bees Trained to Detect Cancer and TB on Human Breath

It turns out that bees are not only essential to global food production, they also make amazing sniffer "dogs." Which is how Portuguese designer...

Oil-Rich Qatar Takes Eco Expertise to Philadelphia’s Famous Greenbuild

The Qatar Foundation is distinguishing itself as a leader at Greenbuild, the world's largest gathering of green building pioneers in Philadelphia, where Hilary Clinton...

5 Steps to a Carbon Neutral World Cup in Qatar

Qatar has promised a carbon neutral 2022 World Cup, but we know from the Masdar City experiment how hard that is to achieve. Still,...

Design a Bridge for the Strait of Hormuz – Crucial Passage for Global Oil

It is one of the most important bodies of water in the world, the only one to link the Persian Gulf with the open...

Solar-Powered ‘Desert Cascades’ Cube Gushes Water in the Desert

The same team behind SunGlacier, an extraordinary solar-powered artificial leaf that produces ice in the middle of the desert, has come up with a...

Wearable Boutonnière Vase Keeps Floral Scents Close to Your Chest

Israeli designer Omer Polak has designed an adorable wearable vase that keeps a flower or herbs close to the wearer's chest. The Boutonnière is a...

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African kids born in these Star Homes are less likely to die

What the Star Home demonstrates is something bigger: that health can be built into infrastructure. Instead of relying only on healthcare systems, communities can reduce disease at the source—through smarter design.

Art from Oman at the Venice Biennale

Oman is returning to the Venice Biennale with Zīnah, an immersive installation by artist and curator Haitham Al Busafi that transforms a traditional form of horse adornment into a large-scale sensory experience.

Korean researchers create battery from greenhouse gases

Professor Ji-Soo Jang, in collaboration with Professor Taekwang Yoon of Ajou University and Professor Hansel Kim of Chungbuk National University, has developed a novel energy device that generates electricity during the process of capturing greenhouse gases.

SunZia comes online and America’s 11B, and largest renewable project begins wind power

The impact is already being felt. California has broken its wind generation record multiple times in recent weeks as SunZia begins feeding electricity into the grid. It’s a glimpse of what a renewable-powered future could look like when large-scale infrastructure finally comes online. Can we start saying goodbye to Saudi Aramco and Arabian Gulf oil? 

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African kids born in these Star Homes are less likely to die

What the Star Home demonstrates is something bigger: that health can be built into infrastructure. Instead of relying only on healthcare systems, communities can reduce disease at the source—through smarter design.

Art from Oman at the Venice Biennale

Oman is returning to the Venice Biennale with Zīnah, an immersive installation by artist and curator Haitham Al Busafi that transforms a traditional form of horse adornment into a large-scale sensory experience.

Korean researchers create battery from greenhouse gases

Professor Ji-Soo Jang, in collaboration with Professor Taekwang Yoon of Ajou University and Professor Hansel Kim of Chungbuk National University, has developed a novel energy device that generates electricity during the process of capturing greenhouse gases.

SunZia comes online and America’s 11B, and largest renewable project begins wind power

The impact is already being felt. California has broken its wind generation record multiple times in recent weeks as SunZia begins feeding electricity into the grid. It’s a glimpse of what a renewable-powered future could look like when large-scale infrastructure finally comes online. Can we start saying goodbye to Saudi Aramco and Arabian Gulf oil? 

Married People Have Lower Cancer Risk, But the Reason is Complex

According to the research, cancer risk was 68% higher in never-married men and 85% higher in never-married women.

40 more migratory animals need protecting, warns UN group

The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), governments agreed to extend protection to 40 more migratory species, from cheetahs and striped hyenas to snowy owls, giant otters, and great hammerhead sharks. Too many of them are slipping toward extinction .

When peace returns, will we rediscover Saudi Arabia’s mud-brick soul?

When the region settles after the American war with Iran, and it will, American and European travelers will come back. Not just for spectacle or headline projects, but for places that feel real. Places that haven’t been engineered to impress and which get into your soul. We predict that visitors to Saudi Arabia will want to see places like Rijal Alma.When the region settles after the American war with Iran, and it will, American and European travelers will come back. Not just for spectacle or headline projects, but for places that feel real. Places that haven’t been engineered to impress and which get into your soul. We predict that visitors to Saudi Arabia will want to see places like Rijal Alma.

A baking soda trick could help clean “forever chemicals” from our water

“Forever chemicals” like the ones ejected by Lulelemon yoga pants into strategic areas don’t go away. They don’t break down in nature, and once they’re in water, soil, or our bodies, they tend to stick around. But scientists at Florida International University think they’ve found a smarter way to deal with them, and it uses something as simple as pH.
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