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Ancient Caesarea Needs Every Grain of Sand

Is King Herod's "City by the Sea" doomed once again? Man-made developments have put Caesarea at risk. The ancient sea port and other archeological...

How To Capture Water Like A Thorny Devil

This spiny little creature can help us survive the Middle East water crisis. How do we value nature? Do we value trees for their role...

Harley Davidson Bikers “Vote for Dead Sea” With Their Tailpipes

Is the Dead Sea one of the top 7 natural wonders of the world? One hundred bikers are coming to show their support. The...

Ecoventure “Lab” Gives Emirate Children Hands On Experience

Emirate children will have a chance to seek their teeth into nature at the new Ecoventure Field Study Center. Children in America were asked where...

Birds Help Israel, Jordan And Palestine Flock Together

After fifteen years of cooperation between the three countries, birds continue to help break down borders. The migration corridor that fosters the ambitious biannual itinerary...

American Elections Are Bad For The Nile Delta

If temperatures continue to increase and icecaps melt, scientists say a one meter rise in sea level will swallow the Nile Delta. In order...

Dubai Expat On Cloud Lucky Wins Nat Geo Photo Competition

Winjnand Van Till captured what would become National Geographic's 2010 top Landscape photo in The Netherlands edition. An amateur photographer has captured the most telling...

Inspired By Nature, Water Tips For The Middle East #1

In a region where water grows increasingly scarce, we look to nature for various tips on how to make the most of what we...

New Jellyfish Species Tells a Tale of Global Warming

The new species, marivagia stellata, previously not known to science, doesn’t sting but is symptomatic of the environmental woes facing the Mediterranean Sea A new...

Finders Keepers: Sport Divers Bag Turkey’s Underwater Bounty

Sport divers mar ongoing efforts to preserve a massive underwater archaeological site, by bagging the bounty. Turkey's archaeological reserves are endless and often endangered. Whether...

Egyptian Dolphin Dealer Attacks Activist With Pitbull?

The plot thickens as dolphin dealer holding dolphins in filthy swimming pool, allegedly attacks Animal Planet/The Cove's Richard O’Barry (above). Even environmental and animal...

UAE Residents Learn To Save Inflatable Dolphins And Whales

Cetacean-lovers learn how to rescue beached mammals in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. Humans engage in all manner of self-destructive behavior, and whales beach themselves....

Will OECD Conf. Compel Israel To Solve Dead Sea Problem?

Before calling its tourism industry sustainable, Israel should first solve its Dead Sea problem. When Israel was invited to join the Organization for Economic Co-operation...

More Signs Of Dubai’s Foul Ecology At Jumeirah Islands

An ecological disaster in their own right, Dubai's Jumeirah Islands' environmental record is sinking deeper with this algae-choked lake. Tourists are charged $200 a...

Hezbollah Chief Compares Environment To Freedom of Speech And Religion

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah adds environmental stewardship to its political platform. In order to reach the populace in the Middle East, where environmental awareness...

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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