Slick videos, fake moons, glow-in-the-dark sand, and fake rain. Neom? Nightmare or a futuristic green fantasy? PR stunt or a serious step in building a new Middle East green city? The authors of the following article by the Green Prophet say that they’ve already read that Saudi Arabia wants to be the new Ibiza and […]
For millions of people on the planet “desert” is a terrible word, synonymous with hunger, thirst and death. Huge areas, deprived of water, and hence life is only growing, and until recently nothing could be done about it. Let’s check the projects collected by Climate Info that have challenged the drought, as well as the […]
Vegetables grow in the desert in Aqaba, Jordan, at a recently opened station as part of the Sahara Forest project. The sun, saltwater, and carbon dioxide are used to grow food and produce clean energy and freshwater. The new 3-hectare plant will be able to grow about 130 tons of vegetables a year and produce […]
From desert to a thriving, green land. It’s nothing short of a miracle, you might say. But this miracle was born of hard work and a vision. Let’s read the story by the Green Prophet. Al Baydha is an area in western Saudi Arabia, about 20 miles south of Mecca. It comprises nine villages inside […]
In order to find solutions to the chaos in Baghdad due to overpopulation, the Iraqi government plans to launch a new city next to the capital, Al-Monitor reports. The Iraqi Council of Ministers headed by Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi announced last week the start of work to build a new administrative city on the outskirts […]
Kuwait Ports Authority (KPA) has approved a proposal to build the Middle East’s first city to serve electric vehicle manufacturers, the authority said in a statement in August. The statement does not make clear where the project, called EV City, will be located. The design and construction tendering process will be during the 2011/22 fiscal […]
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 […]
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. […]
US company Nanoracks is opening the StarLab Oasis in the capital to study food production in space and in harsh climates such as the UAE, The National News reports. A new research centre in Abu Dhabi will use the UAE desert as a testing ground to explore how space technology can help food production thrive […]
Vertical farming company AeroFarms has started construction in Abu Dhabi on a 8,200-square-metre research and development centre, the largest in the world, which aims to advance sustainable agriculture in arid climates. AeroFarms AgX, the New Jersey company’s wholly owned subsidiary in the UAE, is part of a group of four agriculture technology ventures to share […]
