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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
