A nasty smell is spreading through eastern Kirkuk in Iraq, and residents are worried about the effect on their health from nearby industries, including oil facilities, Rudaw reports. “We don’t smell the nasty scent all the time, but sometimes we do. It smells like burnt crude. Our air conditioners pull the smell into our houses. […]
Saudi Arabia has set up an air bridge to Algeria carrying urgent humanitarian aid to help the north African country “alleviate the effects” of deadly wildfires that swept across several cities, Arab News reports. The move has been directed by King Salman, who spoke to Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune over the phone on last week […]
Experts say that turning a city house into a palace is real. Let’s check the explanation by the founder of the Center for Alternative Gardening in Kyiv, who revealed the secrets of safe and beautiful green walls in the Rubryka article. We find examples of vertical gardening most often in parks and recreation areas. There […]
Aid agencies working in Iraq and Syria on Monday issued a dire warning that more than 12 million people in both countries are losing access to water, food, and electricity because of a severe water crisis, Rudaw states. “The total collapse of water and food production for millions of Syrians and Iraqis is imminent,” said […]
According to the United Nations, Madagascar is on the brink of experiencing the world’s first “climate change famine,” which says tens of thousands of people are already suffering “catastrophic” levels of hunger and food insecurity after four years without rain. The drought – the worst in four decades – has devastated isolated farming communities in […]
Bee’ah, the company managing Sharjah’s waste, says it will create green spaces and install a 120-megawatt solar-power facility on top, as well as produce hydrogen from the garbage to fuel its rubbish trucks. The United Arab Emirates is building one of the world’s largest waste-to-energy plants to deal with its growing trash load, Arabian Business […]
The sooner each GCC country defines their specialised positions, the sooner they will be able to seize the opportunities of the new post-oil era. This is what Noha Al Dhahri, consultant from OCO Global, states in the Arabian Business article. As crude oil prices decreased in mid-2014, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) awoke to the […]
The Environment Authority and Nama Group today signed a memorandum of cooperation to allocate OMR 100,000 as a contribution for the national initiative to plant 10 million trees. The MoC was signed by Dr. Abdullah Ali al-Amri, Chairman of the Environment Authority, and Eng. Omar Khalfan al-Wahaibi, CEO of Nama Group, The Arabian Stories reports. […]
It is now indisputable: the planet is getting hotter, and unless governments take immediate action to cut greenhouse gas emissions, dramatic changes to the climate will become irreversible. That was the verdict of the world’s foremost climate scientists in a report published earlier in August. Dubbed “code red for humanity” by UN chief Antonio Guterres, […]
The vessel that caused global disruption when it got stuck is heading for the Red Sea again, The Guardian reports. In a rematch of the struggle that dominated global headlines earlier this year, the 400-meter, 220,000-tonne container ship that became lodged in the Suez canal for nearly a week, disrupting trade on a global scale, […]
