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Gulf people ridicule female falconry association

Join the debate: is the world's first all-women falconry association in Qatar a bad idea?  Falconry is a time-honored tradition in the Gulf, but like more...

Underwater Art is Rejuvenating Coral Reefs

Jason deCaires Taylor uses eco art to conserve a fragile ecosystem See a starfish caress a schoolgirl’s cheek as she holds hands with the boy...

Treat Your Valentine to a Hot Snowshoeing Tour in Lebanon

Adventures in Lebanon is offering a Valentine's Day snowshoeing tour that is bound to heat up this special day! Valentine's Day is just around the...

How plants buffer against climate change

If you are of the 41 percent that lives in drylands, your future depends on supporting plant biodiversity. An international team of researchers including...

Balyolu: Turkey’s First Honey Tasting Tour

Anyone who loves nature will enjoy Balyolu's week long tour on Northeastern Turkey's honey road. Update May 20, 2020: this tour is no longer operating.  It's...

Thousands of Endangered Fruit Bats Were Gunned Down in Lebanon

Thousands of fruit bats in Lebanon were sprayed with shotgun and AK-47 bullets over the weekend. Thousands of fruit bats could have used Batman's help...

Indoor Ski Slopes from Ski Dubai Goes Carbon Neutral in Spain

Barcelona hopes to have an indoor ski slope as nice as Ski Dubai (pictured), but carbon neutral. Barcelona is not as hot as places like...

Israel and Palestine Join Hands Again to Build a Restorative Eco-Park

Putting political differences aside, Israelis and Palestinians unite to restore a section of the Kishon River - one of the region's most polluted. Yet another...

Tourists Bust Egyptian Restaurants Serving Endangered Species

Tourists offended by this gruesome display of endangered species reported the Picalbatros restaurant in Hurghada, Egypt to the local conservation agency. Tourists who dine at...

The Lebanon Mountain Trail is a World Class Hiking Destination

Lebanon boasts one of the world's most sophisticated hiking trail networks, which traverses 75 towns and villages. 

Sea Water Hydro Pump from Med to Dead Sea Needs Rethink

One alternative to the Red-Dead Canal is the Med-Dead Canal hydro pump. The massive hydro pump idea has been around since the 70s and...

Sinbad the Sailor’s Home Threatened by Rising Seas and Bad Development

Ever since the classic The Book Of One Thousand and One Nights, which include tales on Aladdin and the Lamp, Sinbad the Sailor and...

Martian Meteor Hits Morocco

Mars rock rarer than gold and called Tissint falls in Morocco. This might explain mystical Moroccan men: maybe they really are from Mars? Or at...

Gulf Country Completely Bans Ownership of Wild Animals

Because cheetahs don't belong on leashes, Dubai's neighbor, Ajman, has passed a law that makes it illegal for anyone to have wild animals or...

Dead Sea Almost Died Eons Ago

New drilling results from the Dead Sea provides clues that the Dead Sea almost dried up because of climate change -- 125,000 years ago! The...

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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

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Arabia Suburbia was adapted from the American blueprint for suburban living

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Drinking Mercury: How Art Makes Invisible Pollution Visible

Drinking Mercury in La Paz uses photography, sound, video and installation to reveal how mercury pollution from gold mining moves through water, ecosystems and people.

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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?

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