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Regional Cooperation Can Save Med Region Billions in Conservation Efforts

Green Prophet has reported on the research of Dr. Salit Kark a couple of months ago. I went on to interview her, and here's...

A Day on Our Planet (Interactive Virtual Tour of Planet Earth)

See Virtual Tour of Earth at night. It's easy to forget sometimes what all this is for. With Earth Hour behind us and Earth...

David De Rothschild Sails Plastiki With Environmental Lessons to be Learned

David de Rothschild finally sets sail on his recycled bottle boat, Plastiki. English banking family scion David de Rothschild and his crew are already 8...

10 Tips For Greening Your Passover

Getting outside is one way to "green" your Pesach.  Pessach, or Passover in English, is an interesting paradox of both returning to a way of...

Super-Sex Insects With Breakfast of Champions To Be Better Lovers, and Killers!

A new super-sex protein jock shake "A Breakfast of Champions" for fruit flies and mosquitoes to make them better lovers, and mercenaries of their...

Ilana Meallem Is The Green Peacemaker of the Middle East

A young, 'green' peacemaker Ilana Meallem, who first wanted to serve her country in the army, now devotes herself to coexistence and environmental good...

Egypt Tries to Attract Eco-Tourists to Sharm el-Sheikh With Promises of Carbon Neutrality

Sharm el-Sheikh, in the Sinai region of Egypt, has been a thriving tourist location for decades due to its incredible beaches and vast coral...

The Tale of Ancient Trees in the Holy Land (Video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anjsDjPvsN8&feature=player_embedded Trees tell stories. And it's not just because you can see and measure their rings. In Israel there are thousands of old trees with...

Garbage Trucks Dump Straight Into the Sea in Lebanon As Hizbollah Takes Hold

Raw sewage seeping off Beirut coastline, and dump trucks heading straight for the sea, is the "catch of the day" in Lebanon. Marine pollution in...

Bunkers for Bats

Bats find no-man's land makes a great "hang-out." Image via Yuvalh. The song lyrics ask, "War — what's it good for?" Well, conflicts between peoples...

Help From Above As Saudi Environment Satellite-Monitored

e-GEO satellite monitoring of Dubai's Palm Island. Can technology protect the endangered Persian Gulf? Saudi Arabia's fragile desert and coastal environments will now get "help...

Persian Gulf Mermaids, Face Manmade Environmental Threats

The rare and beautiful dugong inspired "tails" about mermaids. This strange creature faces extinction in the Middle East. Image via Christian Haugen. Can you...

A Nature Peace Park

Israeli-built wind farm on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Israeli Syrian expert skeptical that nature Peace Park on Golan Heights would bring peace. We'd reported last...

Egyptian "Sonar" Bats Have Very Positive Environmental Roles

Bats can eat their weight in mosquitos. Some, 1,200 mosquitos every night, making them man's best night flying friend. Have you ever noticed those night...

EU Gives $4 Million Grant to Med and Red Sea Coral Reef Studies

Getting close to his subject: marine biologist Prof. Zvy Dubinsky hopes to understand the changes global warming will cause to the world's delicate coral...

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Meet Seramic Materials from Abu Dhabi

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24 7 renewable energy: how solar, wind, batteries and AI SaaS replace fossil fuels

A new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency based in Abu Dhabi makes something clear that many in the industry already suspected. When solar and wind are paired with battery storage, they can deliver reliable, round the clock electricity at costs that compete with, and often beat, fossil fuels.

A summer of sugar wax or time for laser treatments? The environmental answer

Green Prophet readers know we write a lot about hair. We have covered the halal and the haram sides of hair removal for Muslims. We have written about sugar waxing, Persian sugaring, threading, and the beauty secrets that came out of the Middle East long before salons started calling them trends. Our articles on sugar wax broke the internet a few times. 

Make paper mache with flowers to create stunning vase

There’s something quietly beautiful about what Rebloom Studio is doing, and it starts with waste. At wholesale flower markets, mountains of unsold blooms are tossed out at the end of each cycle. Perfect flowers, just not sold in time. Most of them are burned or dumped. Rebloom takes that moment and turns it into something else.
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