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#OnlyInDubai is eating the calories you just burned considered “good health”

Working out with no results? Health professionals in Dubai have a counter-intuitive solution to consider: eat more! So you’re trying to make good on your...

Dubai fog and urban canyons through the lens of Daniel Cheong

Winter storms hammered much of the Middle East last week with strong winds that rose seas and dropped snow from Egypt all the way to Turkey....

Solar Impulse 2 plane set to circle Earth on sun power

The experimental flying lab better known as Solar Impulse 2 was launched today in Abu Dhabi.  The groundbreaking airplane will circumnavigate the world flying both day and...

Architecture For Humanity Shuts Down

I woke up to find an email from Cameron Sinclair thanking me for “designing like you give a damn.”  Sinclair is the executive director of...

Solar retreat in the Liwa Desert: futuristic functionality or lipstick-on-a-pig?

An unnamed client hired London-based Baharash Architecture to design a luxury home that could fully function off the energy grid. That’s a tall order for...

10 ways to let your death be ever-green

Chaucer said, “Time and tide wait for no man.”  He should’ve added “death”. Just like the American postal system, neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet nor...

Frozen Middle East needs some “global warming”

A winter storm is banging around much of the Middle East.  Precip’s teamed up with gale force winds, causing first-world headaches like clogged transport, school...

Portraits of the world’s oldest trees

Incense that burned in ancient Egyptian and Greek temples was once harvested from this island; nine species of the frankincense tree are unique to Socotra.

Dubai urges private firms to join Car-Free Day

Dubai Municipality has invited businesses and individuals to take part in its annual Car-Free Day on February 4 to lower city-wide vehicle emissions while commemorating the United Arab...

Desolenator offers water independence: just add sun!

Assuming you stayed relatively sane on New Year’s Eve, you probably going to woke up the next day feeling optimistic, ready to start the new...
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