Arab world needs to get to grips with its water problem
HAFED AL-GHWELL March 25, 2023 This week, the global community observed World Water Day, which coincided with a midterm review of the UN’s Water Action Decade. The occasion served to […]
Legitimate investors are financing environmental crime
Feb 05,2022 – JORDAN TIMES AMSTERDAM — One of the most profitable global criminal enterprises is one you might not expect. It is crimes like illegal fishing and logging, […]
Islam forbids burning plants, cutting palm trees, polluting water: Egypt’s Mufti
BY Egypt Today staff Sat, 18 Dec 2021 – File- Egypt’s Grand Mufti Shawki Allam during an instructive symposium at Police Academy on November 28, 2017 — Press Photo CAIRO- […]
Israel an enemy of the environment, not its savior
RAMZY BAROUD November 08, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/p5v79 Anyone unfamiliar with how Israel, and the military occupation of Palestine in particular, is actively and irreversibly damaging the environment might reach […]
What does Islam say about climate change and climate action?
Muslims already have an environmentalist framework to follow. It is set in Islam. by Ibrahim Ozdemir 12 Aug 2020 Large areas in the Middle East are expected to become uninhabitable due to frequent heatwaves in the next few decades. File photo, September 2015, Mecca, Saudi Arabia [Mosa’ab Elshamy/AP Photo] […]
‘Green gold’: Pakistan plants hundreds of millions of trees
1 / 3 Pervaiz Manan, head of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa forest department, shows pictures of a previously deforested hill in Heroshah district in northwest Pakistan. (AFP) 2 / 3 Khyber […]
pollution: How to clear the ocean of plastic? With a giant sailing boat
By Samuel Jaberg This content was published on April 10, 2018 The Manta is powered by solar energy. (SeaCleaners) A giant solar-powered catamaran to clean the ocean of plastic […]
Trump Has Created Dangers We Haven’t Even Imagined Yet
By Jonathan Chait@jonathanchait Trump. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images When the president tweeted out a boast claiming credit for the lack of commercial airplane fatalities in 2017, it seemed like a […]
G20 communique agreed apart from climate issue: EU officials
Delegates attend the official dinner at the Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall during the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany July 7, 2017.REUTERS/Kay Nietfeld By Paul Carrel and Noah Barkin | HAMBURG World leaders meeting for a summit in Germany have agreed every aspect of a joint statement apart from the section on […]
Pope asks Trump to be peacemaker, gives him environmental letter
Reuters International MAY 24, 2017 – U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania meet Pope Francis during a private audience at the Vatican, May 24, 2017. REUTERS/Evan Vucci/Pool (reuters_tickers) […]
Religious leaders call for safeguarding environment
By Rula Samain – Jan 30,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Religious leaders and environmentalists on Saturday stressed the importance of safeguarding nature and protecting the environment. At a one day event organised by the Catholic Centre for Studies and Media in cooperation with Konard Adenauer Stiftung, Christian and […]
Forest Misuse Costs Indonesia $7 Billion in Revenue, Report Says
By Berni Moestafa on 1:29 pm November 10, 2013. JAKARTA GLOBE Illegal logging and mismanagement of Indonesia’s forestry industry may have prevented more than $7 billion flowing to state coffers […]
Urmia Lake continues to dry up, needs 25 bln cm of water to reach normal level
2 August 2013, 18:09 (GMT+05:00) Azerbaijan, Baku, Lake Urmia still needs some 25 billion cm of water to reach its normal level, Director of West Azerbaijan Water Company Naghi Karimi […]
The Ecology of Disease
Source: NT Times. By JIM ROBBINS Published: July 14, 2012 THERE’S a term biologists and economists use these days — ecosystem services — which refers to the many ways nature supports the human endeavor. Forests filter the water we drink, for example, and birds and bees pollinate crops, both […]