According to this infographic by carboun.com carbon emissions in the Arab World are relatively modest. Both in terms of the region’s share of emissions and the share of individual countries. The region represents almost 5% of total global emissions and just under 5% of total global population. But the Arab World carbon emissions are growing so [...]
Antarctica, the last ‘great wilderness on earth’, has changed those that get the opportunity to go there. Taryam Al Subaihi, old friend, ex-colleague, and Emirati based in Abu Dhabi was chosen by his company to go on Robert Swan’s Inspire Antarctic Expedition 2011 last month to study climate change, making me, and everybody around him incredibly [...]
To gain some perspective on the whole ‘Is Earth Hour a waste of time?’ conundrum some are faced with today and in reference to a recent post on a poll that showed the majority of 4000+ people didn’t take part in the 60 minute black out in Dubai, I asked Dr Mathis Wackernagel, President of [...]
An ex-colleague of mine has come up with a brilliant new super-hero based on, I’m guessing, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year. Currently in Spain freelancing, Danesh Mohiuddin, an illustrator and graphic artist entered a competition by Marvel Comics to create a superhero character. Danesh’s character is Spill, an [...]
Illegal trade in wildlife products like ivory and rhino horn must be treated as a serious crime in order to end the devastating poaching of protected species, the head of UN wildlife trade regulator CITES said last week. “This is serious crime, and you need serious resources and serious penalties” to address it, said CITES [...]
South African authorities have been rounding up thousands of escaped crocodiles since Friday after floods gave them an escape route from a crocodile farm. Authorities attempted to reassure the public everything was under control. “A large number” of 15,000 reptiles at the Rakwena Crocodile Farm in the far north of the country had escaped last Sunday [...]
Brazil will undertake the massive task of cataloging the trees of the Amazon, in an effort to better monitor and protect the world’s largest tropical forest, the environment ministry announced Friday. The planned tree census, set to take four years, “will allow us to have a broad panorama of the quality and the conditions in [...]
Recycling entrepreneur Tom Szaky is stubbing out the world’s cigarette problem — one butt at a time. The 30-year-old who dropped out of Princeton University to start his innovative company TerraCycle in Trenton, New Jersey, says there’s no such thing as trash, even when you’re talking about the contents of ashtrays. In a program started [...]
