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Saudi Arabian women are planting a million mangroves

A team of women in Saudi Arabia are planting a million mangroves.

Row, kayak and SUP for the sea!

Part of International Coastal Cleanup Day 20 kayakers will paddle from Caesarea to Jaffa, Israel this weekend September 18 to 20. The team of kayakers...

50-year-old terrarium breaks records, and it’s not from Dubai

Plants sealed inside a large glass jug a half century ago are self-sustained inside a perfect ecosystem. Is there a message in this bottle for the parched Middle East?

Israeli Wildflowers Show Environmental Education Can Inspire Change

Today there are a dizzying variety of wildflowers blooming across Israel, welcoming the months of spring. Fifty years ago some of these plant species...

Hydropolis Aims to Restore the Nile Valley’s Natural Agricultural Rhythm

Just about everyone learned in their early geography classes that the Nile Valley was once a fertile haven. Crops proliferated on the green banks...

Rain and Qatari folktales of nature in film

A community project in Qatar explores local folktales and what they can teach us about nature in the Middle East

Vandals Target Ancient Oaks and Pines With Chainsaw in Israel

In an interview with  local treehugger Oded Yaffe, who takes care of sick and injured trees all over Israel,  he told us at Green Prophet that he saw this sad news on TV and says that "whoever did this thing is really crazy, and can just as much kill someone on the road in a 'hit and run' incident."

Ancient Nabatean Wisdom to Push Back Desertification Today

Petra's pink city was built by water smart Nabateans. Ancient Jewish prayers still recited today include special mention of dew in the summer and rain...

Date Palms, Palmaculture and Greening the Middle East (INTERVIEW)

Palmaculture is a new name for an old concept – one which helped green the Middle East with traditional palm gardens called bustans For centuries...

Gaddafi’s Great Man Made River Follow

The Great Man Made River: 70 percent of Libya's fresh water comes from it. Muammar Gaddafi, the eccentric strongman of Libya for more than 42...

Ancient Egyptian palm trees going extinct

Environmentalists have called for urgent action to save the last 400 argun palm trees, a rare desert palm tree highly valued by the ancient Egyptians

Iran’s “Dead Sea” Lake Urmia is drying up with no one to protect it

Lake Urmia (Persian: دریاچه ارومیه‎, theDaryache-ye Orumiye, Azerbaijani Urmu gölü, Kurdish Wermy, Armenian: Կապուտան ծով, Kaputan ts'ov; ancient name: Lake Matiene) is a salt lake in northwestern Iran near Iran's border with Turkey. Like the Dead Sea in Israel and Jordan, and Aral Lake in Iraq we could lose this lake forever if we don't take action today.

Saudi Arabia is Running out of Sand? Global Warming or Plain Greed?

This is something that would make Lawrence of Arabia turn in his grave: Recent studies are now showing that sand, once Saudi Arabia's most common commodity (outside of oil) is now becoming almost as scarce as water.

Ecological Artist Shai Zakai

Shai Zakai: Self portrait 4X2 m. photograph on canvas purchased by the Ministry of Environment. Since nature can't speak for itself, Israeli environment artist Shai...

Studying the worldwide effects of desertification in Sde Boker

Israel's pioneering Desert University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), is currently hosting the 2nd biannual 'Drylands, Deserts and Desertification' conference at their deep desert outpost at the Sde Boker Campus.

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Xcimer is the Denver-based startup that could put Saudi Arabia out of business

An American company can collapse OPEC if they can prove their approach to unlimited energy works.

The Saudi Startup Turning Desalination’s Toxic Waste Into Its Own Disinfectant

For millennia, the Middle East's water crisis seemed an immutable fact of geography — a region defined as much by what it lacked as by what lay beneath its sands. Today, a convergence of plummeting solar costs, advancing membrane technology, and hard-won engineering expertise is rewriting that story.

Key Rules Recreational Cannabis Users Must Follow in Pittsburgh

Adults who are 21 or older can carry up to 30 grams. This amount applies to personal use within Pittsburgh’s limits. Carrying more could lead to confiscation or legal action. Staying under the limit avoids problems during any public stop.

Turning Your Energy Consultancy into an LLC: 4 Legal Steps for Founders in Texas

If you are starting a renewable energy business in Texas, learn how to start an LLC by the books.

Ancient Chinese medicine might heal spinal cord injuries

In the study, the scientists didn’t just test one plant compound at a time. They tested two traditional Chinese medicine compounds together — luteolin (from flowers like honeysuckle and chrysanthemum) and astragaloside IV (from astragalus root, Huang Qi). These plants have been combined in Chinese herbal formulas for centuries to help the body recover from injury and inflammation.

Luxury meets the textile waste stream with Coach – Bank & Vogue

A new collaboration between luxury brand Coach and textile reuse pioneer Bank & Vogue attempts to stitch those two worlds together: high fashion and the global textile waste stream.

EU startup aiming to generate energy on moon villages

Stepping up to democratize the moon is an EU-funded company, Deep Space Energy, which has just raised more than $1 million USD as a seed fund to help it create energy generators on the moon.

Jujube, the sidr tree of medicine and magic

A magic holy sidr bath to deflect the evil eye? It needs 7 powdered sidr leaves stirred into a bucket of warm water. The hadith of the Prophet Muhammad allows to repeat healing prayers and verses from the Koran to increase the water’s potency. 5 grams, or 1 tablespoon of sidr powder equals 7 leaves.
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