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Maurice Picow
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Drones show how pigs get a raw deal in factory farms
Animal abuse in the meat processing industry can be particularly disturbing. Whether this involves severe animal abuse in a kosher poultry slaughterhouse; or cruelty to...
WaterGen gadget pulls drinking water from thin air
Finding ways to augment supplies of fresh drinking water have been around for years. These ideas vary from basic “low tech” ones like a Yemenite...
Negev oil spill will take years to clean up
Oil spills are bad enough themselves. When they occur in fragile ecological regions like Israel’s Arava desert, they can be catastrophic. Such is the case...
Lebanon’s Sidon garbage mountain to become city park
Taking a cue from its neighbor city Tel Aviv Lebanon’s regional “landmark”, Sidon’s notorious garbage mountain, will now become a city park. Sidon’s stench was...
Un-Islamic critics want to veil “shameless” private parts of buildings in Iran
Islamic versus non-Islamic or simply Western style architecture is an issue in many parts of the Middle East where locals, kingdoms and sheikdoms refuse or steadfastly...
Hanging Gardens of Babylon inspire hydroponics
Growing crops by hydroponic farming, or on water, has been practiced since the ancient Babylonians planted their legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon. These were the world’s...
Agrolan agtech company goes to the worms
Those of you who grew up in countries blessed with ample fresh water supplies may have fond memories of going fishing as a child with...
NASA catches Egypt’s black cloud rice fires on camera
Severe air pollution in many locations is making it hard to breathe in the Middle East. Every year there is a massive black-out in Egypt...
Turkish electric car
While visionaries like Elon Musk are trying to make electric cars like Tesla mainstream in America, electric cars have yet to become commonplace, largely due...
Could global warming trigger new ice age?
The Wrath of global in arid regions like the Middle East is a major issue affecting present day life on earth. Global warming has also been attributed to...
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