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MENA must push – NOW! – for 100% renewable energy

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Israeli lab aims to hatch chicken from stem cells!

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Syria’s seedbank seeds sent for safety to Morocco

Whenever I read the news about Syria's refugee and environmental crisis I wonder how Syria's dictator Bashar Al-Assad's wife Asma al-Assad, once so vocal...

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Flying Spark food-tech asks, “Do you want flies with that?”

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We hate cancer: 7 ways can you prevent it in your modern world

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World’s best eatery NOMA reborn as an urban farm

Celebrity chef and foraging superstar René Redzepi told the New York Times on Monday that he is closing his Copenhagen restaurant Noma at the end of...

Costa Rican tourists thwart sea turtle nesting, a surreal mirroring of the crisis in the Med

This story is not about the Middle East, although the images are a surreal reminder of what is happening on our Mediterranean shores -...

Vermont’s tech park and the future of your food

When you talk with Sue Raftery you might think she's on fire. Funny, because she's leading a company that grows food on water ––...

Hydroponics in the house in Qatar!

Qatar - the tiny desert nation known for sinking millions into futuristic follies like artificial clouds and underwater TV studios - has come down...

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The Christ’s thorn (sidr tree) is also a well-known folk medicine

Christ’s thorn jujube (Ziziphus spina-christi) also known as the sidr tree is a real, identifiable tree native to the Middle East, and it appears—directly or indirectly—in Islam, Judaism, and later Christian tradition. The connections between the three faiths are not theological agreements but overlapping uses, names, and symbolic associations rooted in the same landscape.

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Farm To Table Israel is transforming the traditional dining experience into a hands-on journey.

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In Islamic tradition, there is a point where creation ends — a boundary that marks the limit of what any created being can reach. That boundary is called Sidrat al-Muntahā, often translated as “the Lote Tree of the Utmost Boundary.”

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Air Tea is a new technology. Instead of drinking tea, you inhale herbal vapor through warm air extraction. There is no water and no combustion. The warm air releases essential oils that are often lost in hot water and digestion.

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