Climate pact: From celebrations to threats in a year, thanks to ‘Trump effect’
When the world triumphantly celebrated the signing of the landmark Paris climate pact last December, it was hard to imagine that only a year later it might face an existential threat. Then again,...
Boycott Real Leather… PETA Exposes Animals’ Suffering
It is awful that animals have to suffer, just for humans to enjoy wearing real animal skin/ real leather. Alligators, for example, are cut open, and skinned, just for humans to wear a bag made of...
Shrinking Rudolph… due to Climate Change!!
Climate is really dangerous… we all know that already. It results in rising sea levels, melting glaciers, drought, and warming oceans. However, it also have a very bad effect on animals. In...
Quran Park to get Dhs100m glass house
Work on the cave and glass house project in the Quran Park at an estimated cost of Dhs100 million has already started, revealed Hussain Nasser Lootah, Director-General of Dubai Municipality. “The...
Myanmar farmers reap rewards from 3D printing
Whizzing across a blue-lit platform with a whirr and a squeak, liquid plastic emanating from its chrome tip, the 3D printer seems a far cry from the muddy, crop-filled fields that fringe Yangon. But...
Sea Shepherd finds Japanese whaler ‘hiding behind iceberg’
Activist group Sea Shepherd’s fast new patrol vessel Ocean Warrior Friday intercepted a Japanese harpoon ship “hiding behind an iceberg” in thick fog as its annual high-seas battle against whaling...
Road paved with solar panels powers French town
France on Thursday inaugurated the world’s first “solar highway”, a road paved with solar panels providing enough energy to power the street lights of the small Normandy town of...
World’s worst air has Mongolians seeing red, planning protest
If you think air pollution in China has been bad, just look at Mongolia. Levels of particulate matter in the air have risen to almost 80 times the recommended safety level set by the World Health...
