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Tafline Laylin: From Tour Guide To Green Prophet

Loving wild places gives us the impetus to protect them Before I started writing about green building and eco-tourism in Israel and the Middle East,...

GoEco on a Volunteer Eco-Tourism Adventure in Israel

Be an alternative tourist with one of GoEco's volunteer eco-tourism programs this summer. Earlier this week we wrote about an alternative to the normal ways...

Half of UAE’s Falaj Mualla Camels Choked on Plastic Bags

There is life after plastic. Ban the bags, and save the camels

Clash Between Greenpeace Activists and Bluefish Tuna Fishermen in the Med Sea

There are no clear solutions to the fight between conservation and capitalism Tempers flared out at sea as environmentalists and fishermen sparred over the...

Gas Line Excavation Unearths 3,500 Year Old Cultic Vessels

Archeology is green: The Israel Antiquities Authority and archaeologists celebrate rare find of more than 100 intact vessels While conducting a standard excavation to prepare...

Take Your Team To Lebanon's Ecovillage

Get Your Green On in The Dmit Valley Ecovillages are slowly sprouting in the Middle East.  There's Kramim in Israel's Negev Desert, as well as...

Welcome Home: Meet Theo Who's Running Jordan's Alternative Eco Aqaba House

Dutch native Theo van de Laar exposes the eco secrets and paradise he entertains through The Aqaba House, an eco-friendly guest house he runs...

How to create a food forest garden, by Martin Crawford

This book is unusual.  Firstly, by virtue of covering the topic of forest gardening at all, but also unusual in another respect. Many gardening books...

Baby Croc Harry Dies in Dubai: Another Animal Abuse Case?

Poor Harry: At least he won't wind up being a hand bag We've written about animal abuse cases in the Middle East before, including an...

Rebuilding Abu Dhabi's Coral Reefs One Disc at a Time

How Many Discs Will Save Abu Dhabi's Coral Reefs? We have a long history of worrying about the Middle East’s coral reefs.  These “rainforests of...

Endangered Baboons and Hyenas Rescued from Private Home in Abu Dhabi

One of the hyenas confiscated from a home in Abu Dhabi. Fifteen baboon monkeys and two striped hyenas were rescued by environmental officials from a...

Is Willie the Grey Whale Lost or Looking for Club Med? (VIDEO)

"Extinct" grey whale sighted off Israeli coast, 8,000 nautical miles from home. Lost or making a comeback thanks to global warming? (In the above...

Toads Could Predict Deadly Mideast Earthquakes Months in Advance

Honey, was that you moving, or should we take that as a sign for an earthquake? Image via Ryedo Grrrrrrrrrebit! This may seem a bit...

Rebranding Yemen With $1 Billion Tourism Campaign. Will It Be Eco?

Diversifying away from oil Yemen plans to build six beach resorts over the next five years to draw tourists. How much will be sustainable? The...

Unholy Waters: The Jordan River is Nearly Dead, Maurice Reports

Up close and personal. Karin gets a "sniff" of sewage pipe pouring into the Jordan River. This folks, is the source of the lower...

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AIR ONE electric flying car is getting closer to your garage

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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.

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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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