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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...

Palestinians cultivate the West Bank’s first organic mushrooms!

It's been weeks since a Palestinian vegetable vendor from the West Bank town of Jericho last imported mushrooms, selling instead homegrown organic 'shrooms grown for the...

Holy sh*t! Mummies float in Egyptian sewage!

Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities reported a new discovery of several Greco-Roman era mummies near Minya in northeastern Egypt, 250 kilometers south of Cairo. The new...

#OnlyInDubai is eating the calories you just burned considered “good health”

Working out with no results? Health professionals in Dubai have a counter-intuitive solution to consider: eat more! So you're trying to make good on your...

Hebrew University and PhytoTech from Australia partner on medical cannabis patch

Everything is coming up green in Israel. At least that's how it seems in the medical cannabis space. We've recently interviewed Dr. Alan...

LaraPharm’s dry-powder inhaler delivers cannabis like a medicine

Since humankind has discovered healing properties of herbs like cannabis, inhalation through smoke has been the delivery method of choice. Smoking cannabis makes the...

How Alan Shackelford changed cannabis as medicine

Thirty-five years ago an Israeli researcher documented the case for medicinal cannabis to treat epilepsy. It was one of these studies by a Prof. Raphael Mechoulam that Denver-based physician Dr. Alan Shackelford read when he was debating one of the hardest questions of his career: Should he, could he? give a 5-year-old pot?

Frozen Middle East needs some “global warming”

A winter storm is banging around much of the Middle East.  Precip’s teamed up with gale force winds, causing first-world headaches like clogged transport,...

Desolenator offers water independence: just add sun!

Assuming you stayed relatively sane on New Year's Eve, you probably going to woke up the next day feeling optimistic, ready to start the...

2015 will be the year of hummus

Hummus, the centuries-old Middle Eastern bean paste, is ready for its close-up. According to a report released by food industry trend-trackers Baum and Whiteman, hummus...

Barnyard supermodels may put you off meat!

A stunning series of portraits by American photographer Kevin Horan casts barnyard regulars into supermodels, resulting in anthropomorphic images that capture the personalities of...

Gaza Parkour for putting positive change in the air

Stroll around the ruins of Gaza on a late afternoon and you may catch sight of airborne young men, jumping off mountains of rubble and rolling from rooftops. Their extraordinarily athletic running and climbing, swinging and vaulting makes for an urban ballet.  This is parkour and free running and this is the best crew in the Arab world.

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Food system’s biggest waste may be the farmers we don’t see: Hugh Locke’s new book

Whole Earth Farming: Smallholders and the Great Regenerative Transformation by Hugh Locke is published by George Ronald in September 2026.

Artists warm up former Cold War radio headquarters in Berlin as PEOPLE Festival embraces collaboration and spontaneity

PEOPLE Festival returns to Berlin’s Funkhaus this October, bringing 180 musicians together for a week of collaboration, improvisation and more than 200 one-off performances.

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