Lebanon's economic meltdown presents an opportunity to improve the country's environmental policies and tackle its festering waste management crisis, says its Environment Minister.

Last year, China recorded 8.52 births per 1,000 people according to the 2021 Statistical Yearbook released in the past week - the lowest figure since 1978.

The goal is to slightly alter the trajectory of Dimorphos, a "moonlet" around 525 feet wide that circles a much larger asteroid called Didymos.

The UAE, Jordan, and Israel have committed themselves to building renewable electricity and water desalination capacity and address the threat posed by climate change on energy and water security in the region.

The robots being used in the restaurant are imported but the installation, applications and their servers are managed by the University of Mosul.

While Brazil takes international pledge at COP26 to end deforestation by 2030, the destruction of the Amazon rainforest keeps rising in the country.

After years of drought and over-pumping, the Moulouya river in Morocco comes to a halt just short of the sea. Now, with seawater entering this area, the land is turning salty and making farming near-impossible in the regions around it.

The main barriers to accessing the lifesaving medicine, namely high prices, low availability of human insulin, a market dominated by just a few producers, and weak health systems.

Omani sailor Ahmed bin Majid has been added to the list of world’s influential personalities on his 600th birth anniversary by UNESCO.

The draft Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change report is scheduled for release early next year.

After a series of delays, Elon Musk's private company SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station on Wednesday night on the "Crew-3" mission. The orbital outpost is currently operating with just one NASA astronaut in the US segment to welcome the incoming crew, after the astronauts of the...

Countries with poor economies will face severe consequences of climate change caused by the rich nations.

To resist climate changes, more sustainable sources of energy like nuclear could become a norm in the near future.

Fossil fuels, energy and transport tend to dominate climate discussions. Governments largely ignore livestock’s contribution to climate change, terrified of taking on the powerful vested interests that drive expanding global consumption of meat and dairy. Changes to our diets could contribute up to a fifth of the mitigation needed to...

Pfizer said Friday that a clinical trial of its pill to treat Covid-19 had shown it is highly effective, hailing it is as a big step toward ending the pandemic. 

Demonstrations are expected across Glasgow against the disconnect between the pace of emissions reductions and the climate emergency.

CO2 pollution this year will be just shy of the record set in 2019, according to the Global Carbon Project consortium.

The UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt have made some strong climate-action pledges at or before COP26.

During the recent olive harvest, Palestinian farmer Dalal Sawalmeh raked her fingers through the silvery green leaves of her family's trees but said there weren't as many olives cascading to the ground.

The first global corporate effort to tackle air pollution was launched today, named the Alliance for Clean Air, bringing together leading businesses from around the world.

The United States can now start giving children aged 5-11 the Pfizer-BioNtech Covid vaccine, US health authorities said Tuesday in a move hailed by President Joe Biden as a "turning point" in the fight against the pandemic.

The world is at a turning point on climate change. IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva has urged world leaders at the COP26 summit in Glasgow to make strong policies and to cut global emissions to keep global warming to 1.5 to 2 degree Celsius.

Dubai Municipality has begun a new drive to plant mangrove trees in Dubai’s natural reserves as part of its efforts to preserve and develop the coastal environment.

The 25 percent reduction would equal to a dip of 37 Mat CO2 eq by 2030, according to national figures, and is expected to include various sectors such as oil and gas, power and water, transportation, and construction. This will reportedly be achieved by employing a variety of policies and...

The move comes barely days after the country announced during the Saudi Green Initiative forum that it aims to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2060. The kingdom also said it would join a global effort to cut methane emissions by 30 percent by 2030.

Technology Innovation Institute (TII) has announced that its Secure Systems Research Centre (SSRC) has partnered with three universities on secure mesh communications research projects.

ODL uses XRP for instant, low-cost cross-border payments.

In order to cut out carbon emissions completely, Iraq will stop burning associated gas permanently in 2025.

China is targeting an ambitious clean energy goal of reducing fossil fuel use to under 20 percent by 2060, according to an official plan published by state media on Sunday.

Saudi Arabia's Minister of Communications and Information Technology Abdullah bin Amer Al-Swaha has said that the best way to achieve zero emissions was to increase investment in science and technology. He said if the world continued to follow the current policies and technologies, its zero-emissions efficiency will be 30 to...

The company acknowledged that this would have its challenges.

At the Saudi Green Initiative forum, the Gulf country has also vowed to join a global effort to reduce methane emissions by 30 percent by 2030.

Egypt is looking to increase the share of renewable energies to over 42 percent by 2035, after the country reached 2022’s target for boosting renewables to 20 percent early this year.

John Kerry, the US climate envoy, will be in Saudi Arabia on Sunday to participate in the Middle East Green Initiative Summit.

Mining releases 4-7% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

The UN's Environment Program said government fossil fuel production plans this decade were "dangerously out of sync" with emissions goals.

Owing to the decline in the transmission of coronavirus in the country, the United Arab Emirates has decided to relax the restrictions and permit citizens to take part in weddings and gatherings at home.

Sabic, WEF, and global companies will formalize the plan.

The climate crisis threatens a double blow for the Middle East, experts say, by destroying its oil income as the world shifts to renewables and by raising temperatures to unlivable extremes.

While the country has scrapped social-distancing, it has not done away with the mask mandate.

The Austrian Space Forum has set up a pretend Martian base with the Israeli space agency at Makhtesh Ramon, a 500-metre deep, 40 kilometre wide crater.

It has signed a deal with the Science Based Target initiative.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said a reduction of cases in any one country will not be sustained over time without a coordinated, equitable approach. ‘For everyone’s sake, we must urgently bring all countries to a high level of vaccination coverage,’ he said.

 The United Arab Emirates will aim to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, a plan commensurate with the country’s 2050 Strategic Initiative. It will make the UAE the first country in the whole of MENA region to take such action.

The study in Science analysed high-resolution images captured by Perseverance of the cliffs that were once the banks of the delta.

From vast numbers of CCTV cameras to trials of lampposts kitted out with facial recognition tech, Singapore is seeing an explosion of tools to track its inhabitants

Data analysts are already helping businesses set marketing strategies, explains Jadd Elliot Dib, founder and CEO of Pangaea X.

Already in 2018, 3.6 billion people had inadequate access to water for at least one month per year, and only 0.5 percent of all the water on Earth is useable and available fresh water, according to the UN’s World Meteorological Organization. Meanwhile, water-related hazards have increased in frequency over the...

The United Arab Emirates will launch a spacecraft to explore a major asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, officials said Tuesday, after a UAE probe reached the red planet early this year.

The Nobel Physics Prize has been awarded for ‘groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems.’