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 [...]
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 [...]
