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EVENTS

POWER-GEN Middle East
6-8 February 2012
Doha, Qatar
www.power-gen-middleeast.com

WaterWorld Middle East
6-8 February 2012
Doha, Qatar
www.waterworldmiddleeast.com

Water, Energy, Technology And Environment Exhibition - WETEX 2012
13-15 March 2012
Dubai, UAE
www.wetex.ae

World Water Day
22 March

Gulf Environment Forum
25-27 March 2012
Jeddah, KSA
www.gulfenvironmentforum.com




Build It Green - Lebanon
28 March
Beirut, Lebanon
www.eecosolutions.com








 



 

 


















 





 







 


January-February 2012

Global Initiatives and Regional Cooperation to Eradicate Energy Poverty
by Suleiman Jasir Al-Herbish

Full Story
Arabic text in January-February 2012 issue of Al-Bia Wal-Tanmia
BGTE 2011
Bahrain 1st Green Tech-Expo
Full Story
www.bgte2011.com

The future of an ancient city

 By Julian Cribb

Full Story
 Arabic text in September 2011 issue of Al-Bia Wal-Tanmia

The Blue Peace: Rethinking Middle East Water

Commentary By Hadi Tabbara

Full Story
 Arabic text in June 2011 issue of Al-Bia Wal-Tanmia

Energy For Sustainable Development
By Mohamed El-Ashry

Full Story
 Arabic text in April 2011 issue of Al-Bia Wal-Tanmia

A Road Map for Climate Negotiations
By Mostapha Tolba

Full Story
 Arabic text in April 2011 issue of Al-Bia Wal-Tanmia

Towards a science-led climate policy in the Arab region
By Ibrahim Abdel Gelil

Full Story
 Arabic text in July-August 2010 issue of Al-Bia Wal-Tanmia

Hazardous Waste Dilemma in the Arab Region: An Eye on Environmental Health Ramifications
By Basel Al-Yousfi
Full Story
 Arabic text in July-August 2010 issue of Al-Bia Wal-Tanmia

The CEDRO Impact
By Hassan Harajli

Full Story
 Arabic text in July-August 2010 issue of Al-Bia Wal-Tanmia

Greywater Treatment and Reuse in Southern Lebanon
By Boghos Ghougassian
Full Story
 Arabic text in June 2010 issue of Al-Bia Wal-Tanmia

Biodiversity Is Life
By Ahmed Djoghlaf, executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Biodiversity

Full Story
 Arabic text in June 2010 issue of Al-Bia Wal-Tanmia
Conservation Agriculture – a pathway towards sustainable agriculture

Full Story
 Arabic text in May 2010 issue of Al-Bia Wal-Tanmia

Brad Pitt’s flood-safe Float House
First permitted floating home in the US
By Morphosis Architects
Full Story
 Arabic text in May 2010 issue of Al-Bia Wal-Tanmia.
Environmental Damages Due to Hostilities in Gaza Strip

Full Story
 Arabic text in Oct. 2009 issue of Al-Bia Wal-Tanmia.

Wildlife declines in Kenya's Masai Mara

Full Story
 Arabic text in Oct. 2009 issue of Al-Bia Wal-Tanmia

Operation Demeter yields tons of illegal shipments of hazardous waste

Full Story
 Arabic text in Oct. 2009 issue of Al-Bia Wal-Tanmia

Electronic Wastes: how China became the world e-waste dump
By Eduard Eykelberg
Full Story
 Arabic text in Sept. 2009 issue of Al-Bia Wal-Tanmia

Valuing Guyana’s rainforest
By Ron Cheong

Full Story
 Arabic text in Sept.. 2009 issue of Al-Bia Wal-Tanmia
Eco-house in Aqaba

By Nicholas Seeley.
Full Story
 Arabic text in Sept. 2009 issue of Al-Bia Wal-Tanmia

Redefining development in the face of climate change
By Gunilla Carlsson and Mohamed El-Ashry
Full Story
 Arabic text in July-Aug. 2009 issue of Al-Bia Wal-Tanmia
Hero of the night
Saving Mexico’s endangered bats through protection and education
By:Lynne Schuyler
Full Story
 Arabic text in July-Aug. 2009 issue of Al-Bia Wal-Tanmia
Recyclable homes
Combine loofah and plastic waste to make low-cost housing.
By Paul Jeffrey, the Rolex Awards for Enterprise
Full Story
 Arabic text in Jan. 2009 issue of Al-Bia Wal-Tanmia

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23 - 29 January 2012

GREEN NEWS

A huge pool of fresh water in the Arctic Ocean is expanding and could lower the temperature of Europe by causing an ocean current to slow down, British scientists said.

taly risks its worst environmental disaster in more than two decades if the 2,400 tonnes of thick fuel in the capsized Costa Concordia pollutes one of the Mediterranean's most prized and pristine maritime reserves.

The global average temperature last year was the ninth-warmest in the modern meteorological record, continuing a trend linked to greenhouse gases that saw nine of the 10 hottest years occurring since the year 2000, NASA scientists said.

Beijing began disclosing the amount of tiny pollution particles in the air, in a move that could improve disclosure but alarm a public barely resigned to the capital's choking smog.

The United States said it was appealing a World Trade Organization ruling against U.S. dolphin-safe labeling measures for tuna in a longrunning spat with Mexico closely watched by environmentalists.

Brown seaweed's potential as a vast source of biofuels has been highlighted with the announcement that scientists have found a way of converting all its major sugars into ethanol.

La Niña, "the diva of drought," is peaking, increasing the odds that the Pacific Northwest will have more stormy weather this winter and spring, while the southwestern and southern United States will be dry.

BP is likely to agree next month to pay $20-$25 billion to settle all charges around the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, according to a leading analyst, double the figure the company has set aside and more than other analysts expect.

A fledgling but fast-growing solar technology that multiplies the sun's power up to many hundreds of times promises to deliver cheaper electricity than traditional panels and has received the backing of some major industry players.

Norway will spend NOK 1.8 billion ($300 million) a year to devise ways to help some of the world's poorest people get better access to energy and to develop a new market-based system to limit emissions from global energy production, a foreign ministry official said.