His Royal Highness Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Crown Prince and Chairman of the NEOM Company Board of Directors, today announced the establishment of OXAGON, forming the next phase of NEOM’s master plan and representing a radical new model for future manufacturing centers, based on NEOM’s strategies of redefining the way humanity lives and works […]
Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud, Minister of Energy of Saudi Arabia, has visited the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant located in the Al Dhafra region of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, along with a delegation of senior energy officials. The delegation witnessed the progress and success of the first operational multi-unit nuclear energy plant in […]
The Gulf region faces extreme climate and health repercussions from global warming, with some parts of Saudi Arabia among the most vulnerable to regional temperature increases, according to a new study whose release coincides with the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. Fatal heat waves, increased atmospheric pollution, and previously unknown diseases could be among the […]
Saudi Arabia’s Tanmiah Food Company aims to plant one million trees by the year of 2025, in support of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030. The company started the second phase of its One Million Tree Initiative, launched in March 2019. It had already planted 200,000 trees in the Shaqra region, it said in a statement. The […]
Negotiators took the two-week U.N. climate talks in Scotland into an extra day on November 13, wrestling with a fresh draft of an agreement intended to give the world a realistic shot at avoiding the worst effects of global warming. A deal aimed at staving off dangerous climate change has been struck at the COP26 […]
The world’s largest oil exporter, Saudi Arabia, announced it is going net-zero on carbon emissions by 2060, with Bahrain following suit a day later. The UAE has already committed to doing so by 2050. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman also pledged $186 billion towards cutting carbon emissions, The National News states. More than 100 […]
After decades spent close to extinction, the Arabian oryx has been successfully returned to the wild in Saudi Arabia. Hunting and capturing haves led to a precarious future for the animal, native to the Arabian peninsula. Saudi conservationists have worked hard to preserve oryx numbers in captivity with a view to releasing them into the […]
We’ve found a remarkable article prepared by Climate Action Network (CAN). This is the world’s largest climate network made up of over 1,500 civil society organizations in over 130 countries, together fighting the climate crisis. Since its inception in the 1980s, CAN has grown into a member-driven network driving collective and sustainable action to fight […]
Two companies — one from the Sultanate of Oman and the other from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia – have signed an agreement for joint action in the field of waste recycling and management, Oman Observer states. Al Khedmah Recycling of Oman and Saudi Arabia’s Tadweer will exchange expertise and carry out joint operations to […]
Virgin Hyperloop CEO and Co-Founder Josh Giegel outlines Hyperloop dream for Middle East. Virgin Hyperloop, the company partnered with businesses and governments in the Arab world to develop a vacuum train that could transport passengers at 1,000 kph, is closer than ever to debuting not just a single train in the Middle East, but the […]
