An ambitious project that aims to turn arid desert land into a green oasis took a step closer to becoming reality last week when an agreement was signed on the rights to develop a pilot system in Jordan.
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Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan and UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman today met with students and staff at the highly successful Young Women's Leadership School in East Harlem to discuss the important role that quality education plays in improving children’s lives.
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Solar power is an exciting source of renewable energy, but has so far mostly been used to power little things like homes, cars and small villages.
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Owls and kestrels are being employed as agricultural pest controllers in the Middle East.
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RIyadh, Saudi Arabia -
The Saudi king has made an impassioned plea for dialogue among Muslims, Christians and Jews -- the first such proposal from a nation with no diplomatic ties to Israel and a ban on non-Muslim religious services and symbols.
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Hat Creek, California -
The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life.
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Oslo, Norway -
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
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Cairo, Egypt -
A United Nations initiative to bring together Iraqi refugees and their hosts in Jordan is being seen as a success
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Israel and Jordan have teamed up to construct an artificial reef in the Red Sea that is designed to draw divers away from the fragile natural reefs.
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Sheik Hussein Village, Jordan -
For years, Ibrahim Alayyan watched in frustration as rats devoured the date palms at his lush family farm.
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Source: TreeHugger, Thu January 20, 2011 