Google and YouTube on October 5 announced a new policy that prohibits climate deniers from being able to monetize their content on its platforms via ads or creator payments, Axious reports. Why it matters: It’s one of the most aggressive measures any central tech platform has taken to combat climate change misinformation. Details: Google advertisers […]
We’ve found an impressive compilation of the photos made by The National News. Few of them are masterpieces of art photography. Let’s have a look at the pictures carefully. The dried-up and cracked surface of what used to be marshland at Chibayish. A boy walks along through an almost empty irrigation channel […]
The disastrous effects of climate change on people, especially in creating environmental refugees, are not a question of ‘if’ or ‘when’. It’s already happening, the author from The New Arab states. Milica Cosic is a freelance political journalist and holds an MSc in International Relations. She specialises in the refugee crisis in Europe, particularly Eastern […]
Three laureates received this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics “for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex systems”. These are Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi, according to the award’s website. The winners were announced on October 5 during a conference in Stockholm. Syukuro Manabe of Princeton University in the United States and Klaus […]
Not long ago, the world’s second richest man, Jeff Bezos, announced that he was leaving his post as head of Amazon to focus on projects such as The Washington Post, which he bought in 2013, and the rocket company Blue Origin, as well as to rescue our rapidly a crumbling planet. The American billionaire established […]
One of Iraq’s most enchanting ecological treasures, the Mesopotamian Marshes, is under severe threat from increased environmental degradation, having endured the wrath of Saddam and now the consequences of climate change. Let’s get to know what Austin Bodetti told about Iraqi marshes in a story for the New Arab. *** Compared to the same time […]
As the most prominent representative of the Arab world in the international community, can the Arab League yield major results for a region struggling with desertification, water scarcity, and other environmental issues? Let’s check the answer presented by Austin Bodett in the New Arab. The author is a writer specializing in the Arab world. His […]
Great catastrophes come from human’s unwillingness to comply with the laws of nature, from his reluctance to understand that hunger cannot be quenched by ravaging the earth. Jean Dorst, French zoologist. Let’s continue the conversation about whether agriculture can harm wildlife started in my previous column. Looking ahead, we will answer this question. It […]
Funds managing nearly $30 trillion in assets called on September 28 for 1,600 of the world’s most polluting companies to set science-based emissions reduction targets as a matter of urgency, Reuters reports. The 220 investors, including Fidelity International and Amundi, said they had written to CEOs of companies they invest in demanding targets that would […]
Rising sea levels, increasingly severe storms, and deadly heat waves may imperil the region in coming decades, scientists and studies say, Middle East Eye warns. Let’s get to know more on this issue. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that the Middle East gets hot in the summer, but scientists and studies warn […]
