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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...

Moussa Beidas’ Art Installation Powered By The Sun?

A young Dubai designer wants to install the world's largest perpetual public art installation to send a message around the planet using the power...

Tigris River Flotilla Puts Iraq Back in the News

On Sunday, September 15, a fleet of traditional and modern Mesopotamian boats will sail down the Tigris River on an historic voyage of celebration...

“Spy” Stork Arrested Then Released and Eaten in Egypt

A White Stork was arrested in Egypt recently after a fisherman in Qena captured it - believing it to be a spy - and...

Cyprus Fruit Bats Decline and Head to Turkey?

Animals the world over are changing where they live as humans effect changes on the land. Beyond the bees (see what this market...

Divers Will Pay to Protect Coral Reef Biodiversity, New Study

With news that Red Sea coral reefs on the coast of Israel may be resistant against the changes of climate change, some more positive...

The “Arabian Canal” is a Defunct Water Conduit in Dubai

In my last post I featured a photograph of an unused structure out in the desert near Dubai, a concrete amphitheatre. It turns out...

Shi Shaoping Depicts China’s Desert Scenes with Eggs

There is something so haunting about desert landscapes, and much as we love our own in the Middle East region, we are blown away...

Fascinating, Frustrating Morocco: a Tour in Photos

Severed goat heads, bloody and besieged by flies, lay side-by-side on a butcher’s slab. A dozen lethal serpents, coiled and poised to strike, wove...

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Was the Flydubai cockpit emergency an attempted terror attack — or a pilot in crisis?

What happened inside the cockpit of flydubai Flight FZ1073 on Wednesday morning is still under investigation, but the story has become considerably more disturbing since the first reports of a “fight between pilots.”

Two People, One Dataset, and a Disagreement Nobody Can Settle

Two people can look at the same sustainability dashboard and reach different conclusions. The problem is not necessarily the data, but whether anyone can trace how the number was produced.

Arabia Suburbia was adapted from the American blueprint for suburban living

Walk through almost any Saudi city today and one form dominates residential streets: the detached villa, sitting on its own plot, separated from its neighbors, usually surrounded by a wall and reached by car. It feels thoroughly Saudi. But much of the architectural DNA of the modern Saudi house comes from American suburbia.

Leen Kawas and the Work of Carrying Promising Medicines Forward

EIT Pharma CEO Leen Kawas is advancing lonafarnib for chronic hepatitis D, showing how stalled late-stage drug programs can be revived and carried toward regulatory review.

The Financial Impact of Meta Glasses on Europe’s Eyewear Market

Smart glasses are changing the economics of eyewear by turning conventional frames into higher-priced technology products. What used to be mainly a sale built around frame design, lenses, prescription needs and brand preference is now also a sale built around cameras, audio, AI features, app support and connected-device setup.

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Was the Flydubai cockpit emergency an attempted terror attack — or a pilot in crisis?

What happened inside the cockpit of flydubai Flight FZ1073 on Wednesday morning is still under investigation, but the story has become considerably more disturbing since the first reports of a “fight between pilots.”

Two People, One Dataset, and a Disagreement Nobody Can Settle

Two people can look at the same sustainability dashboard and reach different conclusions. The problem is not necessarily the data, but whether anyone can trace how the number was produced.

Arabia Suburbia was adapted from the American blueprint for suburban living

Walk through almost any Saudi city today and one form dominates residential streets: the detached villa, sitting on its own plot, separated from its neighbors, usually surrounded by a wall and reached by car. It feels thoroughly Saudi. But much of the architectural DNA of the modern Saudi house comes from American suburbia.

Leen Kawas and the Work of Carrying Promising Medicines Forward

EIT Pharma CEO Leen Kawas is advancing lonafarnib for chronic hepatitis D, showing how stalled late-stage drug programs can be revived and carried toward regulatory review.

The Financial Impact of Meta Glasses on Europe’s Eyewear Market

Smart glasses are changing the economics of eyewear by turning conventional frames into higher-priced technology products. What used to be mainly a sale built around frame design, lenses, prescription needs and brand preference is now also a sale built around cameras, audio, AI features, app support and connected-device setup.

Why Pest Control Has to Be Local: Mira Home on How Climate and Geography Change Pest Pressure Across America

Why pest control needs to adapt to local climate, moisture, building patterns and pest pressure rather than rely on one national treatment plan.

Brad Pitt walked the red carpet with rescue dogs. Why isn’t rescue just the default?

The film itself is about a Special Forces officer, played by Pitt, stranded in the Alaskan wilderness with his combat dog Odin after a plane crash. Odin is played by Uber, a highly trained German shepherd from a military and law-enforcement breeding line.

Beavers are moving into the Arctic, and they are rewiring the tundra

“Beavers effectively write their history into the landscape with each shrub they cut and every pond they create by damming streams,” said lead author Dr Georgia Hole, who carried out the research at Anglia Ruskin University and is now based at Durham University.
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