For a dry, desert, arid country a lot of water gets collected in the UAE’s dams every year during the seasonal rains. The amount of rainfall has been increasing steadily according to people who monitor it at the Ministry of Environment and Water. The central, mountainous region gets the most rain and therefore the most [...]
Man-made reefs made of melted down plastic bottles and processed into a wood like material have started being dropped off into the sea along Jebel Ali. The plastic came from residents who dropped off recyclables to Atlantis hotel as part of a call to action from the resort on World Ocean’s Day, this year. Corals [...]
Can oranges fight grease? Well actually yes, along with other non toxic substances like lemons, baking soda or vinegar. Now a cleaning service in Dubai is tapping into this market, a perfect gimmick for the UAE which loves hiring house-help so much. The owner also runs the RAW organic coffee bar at Dubai Garden Centre [...]
To quench the thirst of the UAE, the equivalent of four billion bottles of water is desalinated every day. The demand for water is continually increasing due to population and industry growth coupled with the demand for a certain standard of living, which will see even more desalination plants being built in the future. Notably [...]
February 2 marks World Wetlands Day. More than just a boggy marsh or swamp, wetlands play a vital role sifting through all the materials that wash into them like pesticides or sewage and actually, well thrive, on it. The Ramsar Convention was signed in 1971 in Ramsar, Iran and is 40 today. It defines a wetland as [...]
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 [...]
