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World’s Largest Artificial Lagoon Nears Completion in Egypt, Despite Chaos

When we first learned about the 120,000 square meter artificial lagoon in Sharm el Sheikh designed to be the largest of its kind in...

Cheap Travellers and Surprising $ Stats for Tourism Industries

She might travel on a budget, but this backpacker can spend double the amount of money of the average non-budget traveller, and she'll probably...

Holiday on Samui’s Rocky Shores at Baan Hin Sai

Think Wem Wenders meets Knots Landing at this natural cliff top resort on Koh Samui, Thailand.  As I get older and find myself with the...

EcoReef Antlers For Coral Reef Restoration

Installed already in Qatar, reef recovery time can be decreased from 50 to 100 years to 7 to 15 with these ceramic antler-like artificial...

A P­erfect Beach Holiday at Green Papaya in Thailand

Even Green Prophets need to get out of the Middle East once and a while. Although you can find the world’s most perfect sand...

Loch Ness, Whale Placenta? A Lava Lamp? Mysterious Deep Sea Creature from UK is Revealed

It's called Deepstaria Enigmatica, but what is it? A very cool video of a mysterious creature filmed during deep-sea drilling 5000 feet below sea level near...

Venus to Cross Mideast Sunrise on June 6, 2012

There'll be a little black spot on the Sun today... (in June). Watch out for Venus come sunrise. A rare transit of Venus will be...

Banded Israeli Bird Suspected of Espionage in Turkey

A bird-brained theory: Turkish farmers suspect a European bee-eater found in their fields of spying for Israel.  When a farmer in Gaziantep province in southeastern...

Owl Love Knows no Borders

We're fond of saying that nature knows no borders but we could never have illustrated the point as well as a recent story from...

Archaeologists Discover Lost Language In Southeastern Turkey

A list of women's names written in cuneiform is the only remnant of this unidentified language, which was spoken 2,500 years ago. Found in the...

Jordan: Two Men Boast About Killing Owl

I know that in Jordan the owl represents bad luck but does that make its killing justified? Should we also be killing black cats? Reports did emerge that Gray wolves in Jordan were being hunted, poisoned and ran over as they are considered a huge threat but surely, it's different for such a clearly harmless creature? Well, apparently not.

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...

Escape Beirut’s Smog: Go Whitewater Rafting

Nobody offers up adrenalin and nature bliss quite like Adventures in Lebanon. Their first whitewater rafting trip of the season on Nahr El Assi...

Israel Triumphs Over Invasive Acacia Species

Four years ago Israel Nature and Parks Authority (INPA) schemed a plan to eradicate the blue-leafed wattle (acacia saligna), an invasive species native to Australia...

Supermoon photos from around the world

The full "supermoon" peers out from behind the US Capitol building in Washington DC; taken by @quinalty. People around the world flocked to catch a glimpse...

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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

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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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