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Write for Sustainability and Win Creative Writing Contest

Unleash your inner Thoreau, show the human side of sustainability and and win $10,000 for a creative nonfiction essay. Have you been lucky enough to...

IDF Soldiers Dance Their Way Into Prison

http://youtu.be/OTFcTptKS3U The Harlem Shake is a cringe-worthy global phenom that's spawned a thousand Epic Fails: the YouTube dance craze's been done underwater, on commercial air...

The History and Environmental Impacts of Data Centers

When you Twitter, Google, or just spend leisurely hours checking facebook updates, how does this affect the environment? And think about all that data...

Islam and Sustainable Development, A Book Covering These New Worldviews

Odeh Al-Jayoussi creates a  great guidebook on Islam and sustainable development, although it's a little overambitious in its reach at times Odeh Al-Jayoussi, the current vice...

Act Now to Help Jordan Learn to Befriend Man’s Best Friend

Animal lovers in Jordan are fighting a formidable battle to raise people's awareness and respect towards strays and animals in general. It's not easy being...

Omar Nour Aims to be the First Egyptian Olympic Triathlete

Mountaineer Omar Samra posted a photo on his Facebook page of him posing with Egyptian triathlete Omar Nour. Theirs is a match made...

Crap – a Giant Field of Human Excrement Outside of Dubai

Even though, perversely for a landscape photographer, I tend to seek out uglier-than-average places, this possibly wins the prize for one of the least...

She’s Making Graffiti at the Most Dangerous Place on Earth (PHOTOS)

Malina Suliman's Fighting the Taliban with Paint and Graffiti Sometimes graffiti can be seen from space. In Tunisia it graces the country's tallest minaret. In...

Recycling Plastic Bags and Bottles- a Few Easy Ways

Recyclable plastics or wastes for the dump? The choice is ours. Plastic items that usually get discarded and wind up being buried in landfills or...

Egypt’s First Female Dive Master Speaks Out

Egypt has certified the country's first female dive master - a devout Muslim who refers to herself as a feminist. With coveted dive spots...

Stupid Cupid Learns Valentine’s Day Middle East Style

The bard believed that a “rose by any other name would smell as sweet," but labeling mid-February fun as a Valentine’s event is controversial...

Epic Fail Book Helps Us Understand Our Insatiable Appetite for Awful News

Pink slime, an Egyptian muscleman with freakish biceps, and horse-burgers: what makes news go viral? Ages back, the day after actress Natalie Wood died, I...

5 Green Valentine Ideas For Your Eco-Girlfriend

This year, why not try a few unconventional valentine ideas that will expand your lover's heart, rather than her waist or rear end! Chocolates...

Worm Composting to Rejuvenate Your Plants and Earth

This little critter, the common red worm, is a natural organic composting machine Composting for improvement of houseplants and gardens and made in your backyard...

The Kiss in Syria – Tammam Azzan’s Golden Hope Goes Viral

It is rare for an artist from the Middle East to achieve global acclaim, yet Tammam Azzan's name has appeared in all of the...

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AIR ONE electric flying car is getting closer to your garage

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AIR ONE electric flying car is getting closer to your garage

Israeli eVTOL startup AIR has moved beyond prototypes, with a new Florida production facility, eight aircraft in production and about $50 million raised. How close is AIR ONE to your garage?

Stardust’s solar geoengineered $10 billion plan to blot out the sun

Israeli-American startup Stardust Solutions has raised $75 million to develop technology that could cool the Earth by reflecting sunlight. Is solar geoengineering becoming a real industry? Or could it be a new threat?

Mantle8 takes its natural hydrogen hunt from the Pyrenees to Dubai

Mantle8 is taking its hunt for naturally occurring hydrogen from beneath the Pyrenees to the Middle East, opening a Dubai hub after raising €31 million. But finding hydrogen underground is one thing; proving it can be produced cheaply and at scale is another.

Does Starbucks use lab-grown milk? Here’s what we found

Does Starbucks use lab-grown milk? Starbucks tested precision-fermented milk from Perfect Day in 2021, but is it hiding in your latte today?

Alien chemistry crashed through a roof in New Jersey

meteorite crashed through a New Jersey roof carrying ancient salts, organic compounds and amino acids. After a few too many visits to Ontario’s Crystal Cave — and my own mysterious fireball in the forest — I have questions about the alien chemistry falling around us.

Adidas wanted to sell one shoe. Then it stepped into a global culture war

Adidas Israel featured amputee runner Shalev Biton in its Single Shoe campaign, designed to let people who need only one shoe buy one instead of a pair. The local campaign has since sparked international boycott calls and an apology from Adidas.

Scientists make lead-free perovskite solar cells that can weather the elements

Scientists have developed a “raincoat” for lead-free tin perovskite solar cells, helping them withstand air, moisture and heat while maintaining high efficiency.

Europe’s mountain plants are paying off an extinction debt

Europe’s mountaintops may look richer in plant life, but rising species numbers are masking the disappearance of alpine specialists as temperatures climb.
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