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Hookah steam stones loaded with carcinogens

Hookah, shisha, or smoking the nargila is a staple of any Middle Eastern experience. But more and more research suggests that this form of...

Best avocado and grapefruit salad makes the perfect match

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ICARDA scientists save 80% of a priceless trove of Syrian seeds

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Is Egypt in denial about Nile phosphate pollution?

A barge carrying 500 tons of phosphate capsized in Upper Egypt last week after a run-in with a bridge foundation.  According to Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, the ship...

Indoor air pollution and the ugly corners it lurks

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Worth their weight in gold: biggest losers in Dubai win coins for weight lost

The Middle East is seeing the worst rising weights of obesity in the world: but a new Biggest Loser contest in Dubai, is showing...

‘Arabian Ark’ is saving UAE wildlife from extinction

Oryx, giraffes and cheetahs - species once facing regional extinction - are making a robust reappearance on a desert island off the coast of...

Smoked out ants!

Young men in United Arab Emirates have jumped on a bizarre, and weirdly "green" addiction, passing on cigarettes and sheesha to smoking dead ants to get high. They...

Pesticides kill again, now a Sharjah infant

A newborn baby boy has died and his three-year-old brother is critically ill in hospital after they inhaled a toxic pesticide used in the apartment...

Omani fishermen catch cattle from sunken ship

A cargo ship bound for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with about 350 cattle on board sank off the south coast of Oman mid-afternoon...

3D-printing with living organisms – snack of tomorrow?

Food designer Chloé Rutzerveld has developed a concept for 3D-printed snacks that sprout plants and mushrooms from edible soil housed within a pastry or...

100% edible coffee cups; tasty, eco-friendly, and straight to your hips

Who says you can't have your cup and eat it too? The maker of those chicken-like products sworn to be "finger-lickin' good" is testing...

Fresh food: United Arab Emirate’s unsustainable obsession

Why did the carrot slap the lettuce? Because it was too fresh. A joke that gains huge laughs in the single-digit age group gets a...

Could test-tube meat be the future of food?

Getting meat without killing animals is a concept that’s fast approaching reality.  Lab-grown, or ‘cultured’, meat could resolve many of the environmental and ethical...

Moroccan marathon is world’s toughest footrace

The toughest foot race on Earth kicks off on April 6th.   It’s a gruelling multi-stage adventure through formidable landscape in one of the world’s...

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