Jeddah Economic City – one of Saudi Arabia’s flagship megaprojects, which will include the world’s tallest tower – is nearing completion on all road construction and landscaping work, according to a senior executive on the project, Arab News reports. Speaking at the Urban Landscape Saudi 2021 event this week, Fady Nassim, executive head of urban […]
The Middle East and North Africa face a host of major environmental challenges, from water scarcity and food insecurity to climate change adaptation. Let’s get acquainted with the Middle East Institute (Washington-based) interviews on these topics. In conjunction with MEI’s Climate Week 2021 events, this institution asked experts and scholars to weigh in with their […]
Special Envoy for Climate Affairs, Chief Executive of the Supreme Council for Environment (SCE), Dr. Mohammed Mubarak bin Daina received South Korean Ambassador to the Kingdom of Bahrain, Hae Kwan Chung. He lauded the ambassador’s efforts to boost bilateral relations, mainly in the environmental field, stressing SCE’s keenness to further enhance cooperation between both countries […]
British environmental experts in May 2021 collected data for the last year on the level of pollution in different cities of the world. They took into account such indicators as the degree of air pollution, the level of noise, and light pollution. And it turned out that India has been the leader in the number […]
The first massive action of removing electric scooters from the bottom of the Rhine river will take place in German city Cologne at the end of June, DW reports. Recently, during the repair and arrangement of embankments, divers, who usually clean the bottom of the river from debris before work, found more than 500 electric […]
Renewable energy sources (RES) stations to appear in 2020 will reduce the cost of the electricity sector by at least $ 6 billion. It means that renewable energy continues to spread across the planet, despite the pandemic, and is becoming cheaper. Nearly two-thirds of solar and wind power plants built in 2020 produce electricity that […]
Climate change is manifested primarily in rising temperatures, which leads to other dangerous consequences: melting glaciers, droughts, floods, and other extreme weather events. Therefore, the global climate target is determined in degrees. The signatories of the Paris Agreement promised to do everything possible to keep the global temperature rise at a level not higher than […]
The world’s fastest population growth is accelerating the need for a more diversified economic system in oil-dependent Iraq, according to a top government minister, Arab News reports. Iraqi Prime Minister Financial Affairs Adviser Mazhar Mohammed Saleh called for a new “social market” to reduce oil dependence and boost investment in key sectors such as manufacturing, […]
Turbines from the first great 1990s wave of wind power are reaching the end of their life expectancy today. About two gigawatts worth of turbines were refitted in 2019 and 2020. And disposing of them in an environmentally-friendly way is a growing problem, BBC states. Some call wind turbines a stunning element of environmentally friendly […]
Iran and Iraq are frequently at odds over water issues. Iraq depends on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for nearly all of its water. But Iran is building dams to redivert some of that water, causing alarm and creating major water shortages for Iraq. We’ve found the analysis of the current water situation in the […]
