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    • Art goes green in Abu Dhabi

    A night sky overwhelmed by glittering stars, shining over the desert dunes while two Bedouin men stand and look on — this photo could well be George Lewis’s most eye-catching photograph in his latest exhibition. “I shot this with the Rasheedi tribe in Kuwait, when I used to live with them. They gave me a [...]

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    Saturday, May 4th, 2013

    ‘We’re trying to buy time for the world to wake up’ – Jeremy Grantham

    You’ve probably never heard of him, and for years Jeremy Grantham liked it that way. But now the man who made billions by predicting every recent financial crisis is speaking out.   One icy morning in February, a train pulled into Washington DC. It was loaded with environmentalists planning to handcuff themselves to the gates [...]

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    Tuesday, April 30th, 2013

    Hunting in the UAE? Gazelles and deers on the menu from September…

      There’s a new resort hitting the UAE, but forget family-friendly: the Barari Hunting Resort near Al Ain will be the region’s first dedicated hunting hotel. Open from September to April, visitors will be able to stay in one of 15 villas and hunt gazelle and deer before eating their kill at an evening BBQ. [...]

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    Tuesday, April 30th, 2013

    Documentary in the Making – Green Deserts: the Saltwater Revolution!

    The documentary in the making, Green Deserts – the Saltwater Revolution, was launched on the crowd-funding site Kickstarter.com in order to raise USD 35,000 for an additional year of filming the people and progress of the visionary The Sahara Forest Project – a groundbreaking effort to “green” the deserts and a project aimed at creating [...]

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    Sunday, April 28th, 2013

    A LAKE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE UAE DESERT

      In the UAE, one of the driest countries on the planet, CNN’s Leone Lakhani stumbles upon a rare lake which recently sprouted up in the middle of the desert. Experts say it formed as a side-effect of increased desalination usage in the Gulf, a process which provides a heavy flow of water at a [...]

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    Monday, March 18th, 2013