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 [...]
Speaking with recent arrivals in Dubai, they are shocked (as was I) to see the use of plastic wrap for things like…bananas. Try as hard as we might it can sometimes be really hard to avoid plastic. It is thrust upon us at every cashier no matter the amount of items bought. The wrapped banana is [...]
Some of the articles I wrote for Gulf News have made it into a book on the weird and wonderful place that is Dubai. It’s author, Lorraine Ludman, will be discussing her book during a session at the 2012 Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, on Friday 9th March at 1.30, at the Intercontinental Hotel, Dubai Festival [...]
Dubai: Fresh fruit and vegetable imports to the UAE from all over the globe have risen by up to 20 per cent since 2008, pushing local farmers to exploit niche markets like organic produce or flowers as they cannot compete with the abundant supply from the international market, a Dubai Municipality official said. In 2010, [...]
This is one of the most original concepts I have come across in a long time. Not so much environmental in the ecological sense, but geographical none the less. Conflict Kitchen in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania (US) is a take-away restaurant that only serves food from countries that the United States is in conflict with. Iran, North [...]
According to a ‘global’ survey and 22,000 people who took it, including some folks in the UAE, women in the Emirates rank higher than men across all green behaviour categories. And perhaps surprisingly people aged 56 and 65 years ranked highest in recycling and buying ecological products. Those in the 16-25 age group scored lowest [...]
We have a few options for buying organic food now in the UAE, and it’s always welcomed when a new outlet shows promise. The Abu Dhabi Organics Farm which was certified organic in 2007 just started delivering its produce to Dubai. Residents in Jumeirah Lake Towers will be best served because every Monday orders are [...]
Coffee drinkers who like a frothy head on their morning caffeine fix could soon be able to order a “camel-ccino” or cappuccino with camel’s milk. Coffee and camels — two icons of Arab heritage — have been brought together not only to create a hot beverage, but to help the country achieve food security. The [...]
The Abu Dhabi poultry industry is close to producing drug-free chickens after research conducted with dates found that their pits, which are usually spat out or discarded, provide chicks with a natural antibiotic that leaves no residue in the meat. Worldwide concern exists over man-made antibiotics used in animal feed and water to fight disease [...]
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 [...]
