Sunlight hitting those flat rooftops in the capital city will no longer go to waste. Masdar and Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA) have announced they have jointly installed photovoltaic (PV) solar rooftop installations on 11 government and private buildings in Abu Dhabi. Altogether the 2.3 MW of PV panels on the rooftops will [...]
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 [...]
As I don’t have a car, TV, DVD player, radio or CD player I rely entirely on my laptop, iPhone and iTunes- which is great. But I’ve noticed that while I have a huge access to media, it’s all derived one way or another from my conscious search for it, be it news, music or films. Rarely do [...]
No it’s not a site for cult worship. This is the future of ecological power generators. The technology is planned to light up a neighbourhood in Abu Dhabi while giving residents something arty to look at. It’s formally known as Lunar Cubit and winner of the 2010 UAE design competition for energy-generating public art. Nine sleek and [...]
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 [...]
