- Air pollution costs the Middle East and North Africa $141 billion per year, or around 2% of GDP on average,...
Environmental pollution will cost some nations in the region including Egypt, Lebanon and Yemen more than 3% of their GDP
The report singled out "low environmental standards" in the transportation and industry sectors, the use of low quality fuel
- The company will make a rocket to bring back rocks from Mars.
According to the US space agency's statement, Lockheed Martin has won a NASA contract to build the rocket which will bring the first Mars rock samples to Earth in the 2030s
NASA will launch a plan in 2026 to send the mini-rocket to Mars, carrying another rover responsible for collecting the rock samples
- The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has launched a plan to tackle a chronic shortage of cancer care capacity in...
The total number of cancer deaths worldwide is forecast to rise by 60 percent in the coming two decades, to 16 million people every year
Rays of Hope builds on the IAEA’s six decades of experience and expertise in nuclear science to diagnose and treat different types of tumors
- Rwanda is keen to have the UAE’s cooperation to utilize geospatial data in developmental projects in key sectors.
Geospatial data is globally being leveraged and utilized in policy decisions and program implementation
A Rwandan minister said her country knows UAE is advanced in this area, would like to learn from it
- Ice on a glacier near the summit of Mount Everest that took millennia to form has shrunk dramatically in the...
The South Col formation may already have lost around 55 meters (180 feet) of thickness in the last 25 years, according to research led by the University of Maine
Carbon dating showed the top layer of ice was around 2,000 years old, suggesting that the glacier was thinning more than 80 times faster than the time it took to form
- The UAE-Bahraini Light-1 CubeSat was successfully launched into orbit from the International Space Station, in cooperation with the Japan Aerospace...
Light-1 CubeSat is a collaborative initiative of the UAE Space Agency, Bahrain’s National Space Science Agency, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, and NYU Abu Dhabi.
The Light-1 CubeSat represents the region’s first scientific mission to monitor and study Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs) from thunderstorms and lightning.
- The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center (MBRSC) announced that it will host the 17th International Conference on Space Operations (SpaceOps...
Scientists, practitioners, engineers and leaders in the space industry will participate in the event.
UAE’s Mars 2117 Strategy seeks to be the first to establish a human colony on the Red Planet.
- The fast spreading and heavily mutated Omicron variant has rapidly become the dominant variant worldwide since it was first detected...
The fast spreading and heavily mutated Omicron variant has rapidly become the dominant variant worldwide since it was first detected in southern Africa 10 weeks ago
In its weekly epidemiological update, the WHO said that the Omicron counts several sub-lineages: BA.1, BA.1.1, BA.2 and BA.3.
- Swiss based start-up THE JET ZeroEmission announced that it has inked an agreement with Zenith Marine Services LLC, a UAE...
‘THE JET’ features cutting-edge characteristics and technologies, making it capable of flying in silence over the waters at a cruising speed of 40 knots
The flying boat’s cutting-edge fuel cell technology will be delivered in Dubai for a historic inaugural flight, during the next COP28 UAE preparatory meetings
- In the United States, the 5G usage near airports have been opposed by many airlines, which claim that it may...
Canada adopts C-band technology, same as the US, but typically restricts hazardous signals near airports.
Several Arab countries have already embraced 5G, and others will follow once they reap the financial benefits of selling licenses to telecom companies.













