Improving the air quality of your home starting with your AC unit
Houseplants filter air pollution. But there are other things you can do to make sure your indoor space is healthy.
Climate Change
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran, Turkey: hot spots for SO2 emissions
Despite the general decrease in SO2 emissions around the world, the Middle East is still one of the worst polluted regions, specifically emissions around the Gulf region which did not witness any significant change between 2018 and 2019.
Ticks bite humans for warming the planet
A small rise in temperatures and ticks prefer human legs over our dogs.
The Cedars of God are dying
Greenpeace is promoting a new film about the trees, the ‘Cedars of Lebanon’. This is the second film that was produced to document and highlight the devastating impact of global climate change on precious and unique ecosystems in the Middle East.
At the Four Seasons Casablanca? Learn about desert oases at risk
You are having an adventure of a lifetime. But if you weren't at 5 Star Four Seasons Casablanca or Marrakech - what would you know about the local people in Morocco? A video produced by Greenpeace helps show some of what happens as a byproduct to climate change. The deserts are getting even drier.
Coping with Climate Change Depression
Climate change can seem depressing. Does it help if you take it to heart?
Regenerative agriculture the solution, says Woody Harrelson
Building on what was before now, a new film narrated by Woody Harrelson offers a solution to the pickle we are in - or the pickle we think we are in. Regenerative agriculture.
Solar powered yacht – sails and moors for off-grid escape
Not your dad's houseboat. A movable home that can plunge its support deep into the water against hurricanes, or be brought on land to live off-grid.
Death Valley peaks hot – the highest since ’31 at 130F
Death Valley, USA. It's looking pretty hot out there. Climate change is forcing its effects.
Beloved climate change scientist Konrad “Koni” Steffen loses life falling through melting glacier
Glaciologist Konrad “Koni” Steffen passed away at aged 68 on August 8 in an accident in Greenland. Steffan was a renowned researcher on rising sea levels, and died after falling into the kind of crevasse that global warming has created. “It looks like climate change actually claimed him as a victim,” a colleague said. His […]
“We’ll stop cutting trees” part of Tel Aviv’s climate action plan
Spend a few years or a dozen in a coastal city like Tel Aviv or Beirut and you’ll see how in a short time the season’s have changed. Tel Aviv this winter experienced an unprecedented level of flooding (we told you so), which killed two people and left people kayaking down the streets looking for […]
Science finds a way to stop cow farts
Ideally we should all be living like this, with our own personal cow. Until that happens new research finds a way to slow methane development in cow stomachs.
Save the Dead Sea with your old travel shots
Poor political relations, business neglect, climate change. The Dead Sea is dying. Help save it by being part of an international photo competition to document its change and beauty.
David Attenborough’s PBS climate special features Greta, not Gore
On Earth Day, April 22, PBS (America’s Public Broadcasting Service) will premiere a compelling new documentary, Climate Change – The Facts, presenting scientific evidence of the impact of global warming. The program also examines possible solutions to the crisis, including the latest innovations, technology and actions individuals can take to prevent further damage. The one-hour […]
Most Americans aren’t connecting climate to their kitchen
Yes, we know. This is a site where we delve into issues facing the western east. The region that the world knows as the Middle East but which we are rebranding as something less archaic, more in tune with what the near East is about. Like the rest of the world, we look to America […]