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4 wearable luggage ideas to beat excess baggage charges

Park your complaints about cramped seats.The growing gripe in the flying experience lies in luggage fees as costs for checked bags rise (and weight allowances reduce).

Abu Dhabi energy pylons confuse perceptions of “land” use

An awe-inspiring sight, as one departs Abu Dhabi towards Saadiyat and Yas Islands, these pylons seems to disappear into the distant sea. But we...

Nazareth Fauzi Azar Inn creates harmony between Arabs and Jews

Me and my family stayed at the Fauzi Azar Inn in Nazareth last year. Normally tourists, even backpackers don't put Nazareth top on the list for...

Middle East Hunters Promise to Stop Slaughtering Birds

Birds have a terrible time in the Middle East and North Africa. We've seen men posing with a bonnet full of dead ones, one...

Turkey’s Beaches Are Third Best in World for “Eco” Blue Flag Rating

Now that the turkey and its trimmings have digested in your belly, time to start planning a spring eco holiday! Time for Turkey? The...

Qatar Must Stop Shoreline Development to Save Mangrove Forests

The Arabian Gulf has waters that are some of the world’s most saline; and where water temperatures often reach as high as 35 degrees...

Israel’s Bird King Yossi Leshem: Jordan’s Tafila Wind Farm is a “Real Problem”

Jordan is pushing ahead with the largest commercial scale wind farm in the Middle East region, the Tafila Wind Farm, seemingly without care for...

Religions Sign On to Save the River Jordan

Our favorite peace-water NGO Friends of the Earth Middle East have just held a conference in Jordan last week and there had faith leaders...

Middle East Deserts as Seen From Space: Far-Out Photos!

The European Space Agency (ESA) publishes satellite photos of Earth (and photos of space taken from Earth) in an incredible archive that’s updated...

The Tragic Story Behind Haunting Plane-Shaped Memorial in the Sahara Desert

In 1989, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 carrying 155 passengers and 15 crew members exploded over the Sahara Desert. 18 years later, family members built a memorial...

Celebrating The Olive In The Galilee

Artisinal olive oil. It has an attractive ring, but think what "artisinal" means. You associate it with ancient traditions that living people continue to maintain - with the material products of those traditions.

Mysterious Sinkholes Threaten to Sink the Dead Sea

Watch your step, kibbutzniks and spa-mavens! Diminishing water levels in the Dead Sea are causing changes to surrounding groundwater flows.  Freshwater moves through the...

Man Bikes 500 Miles for Ethiopia’s Forests

A man who belongs to Ethiopia's chapter of the Global Power Shift youth environmental activism network biked nearly 500 miles in just two months...

5,000-Year-Old Leopard Trap Discovered in Israel’s Negev Desert

It's easy for us to think of modern humans as the sole destroyers of all things living, but ancient humans also competed with...

Hundreds of Dead Cormorants Found Slaughtered Near Oman Border

We were really troubled by this latest tip: hundreds of dead cormorants were found dead on a beach, about an hour from Dubai, according...

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Ancient Jewish New Year for Animals revived with global campaign against factory farming

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Rather than retreating from climate change work, the Jewish Climate Trust organization has backed a new initiative designed to strengthen both climate action and Jewish community.

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Teen Farmerettes were Canada’s answer to Victory Gardens during wartime food shortages

It is a wake-up call to teen girls on TikTok planning their next Coachella outfit or trip to Sephora: During the Second World War, thousands of young men left family farms to enlist, but the crops still needed planting and harvesting. Ontario's government answered by recruiting high school girls, from ages 16 to 18, to spend parts of spring, summer and fall to fill in for the labor shortage. 

The Early Believers: Investors Who Backed SpaceX Long Before Its Record IPO

SpaceX’s 2026 IPO didn’t just mint billionaires—it revealed the many forms of conviction behind one of the most doubted bets in venture history.

From eco city experiment to global clean energy giant: How Masdar became the UAE’s renewable energy powerhouse

Masdar began as an ambitious eco city in the Abu Dhabi desert. Two decades later, it has become one of the world's largest renewable energy developers, financing billions of dollars in solar, wind and battery storage projects across the globe.
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