UAE announces ministerial reshuffle POLITICS | MIDDLE-EAST | GCC | UAE FACT BOX: December 1971, the UAE became a federation of six emirates – Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm Al-Quwain, and Fujairah, the seventh emirate, Ras Al Khaimah, joined the federation in 1972. The capital city is Abu Dhabi,…
Putin to open regular Artic Northern Sea Route to global cargo shipments in 2022 to improve security and safety of global trade SHIPPING | TRADE | CARGO | CLIMATE CHANGE | ARTIC | NORTHERN SEA ROUTE | RUSSIA The Russian president Vladimir Putin, held talks this weekend talking to reporters…
Europe’s hottest ever temperature recorded on Italy’s largest island – Sicily Climate Change | Mediterranean | Italy | Sicily Fact Box: Wild Fires are common in the Mediterranean, yet summer 2021 has seen record high temperatures and the most intense fires on record spreading from Turkey, across Greece, the Balkan…
UK Black outs due to electric cars as island nations still planing to ban petrol and diesel by 2030 Cars | Electric Cars | Technology | Climate Change | Renewable Energy Fact Box: The UK government has faced questions and concerns regarding the strength of the island nation’s energy infrastructure….
UAE ‘Cloud Seeding Drones’ successfully form clouds and create rain as manmade weather Technology | Cyber | Environment | Climate Change | Middle East | |UAE | Dubai FACT BOX: Geoengineering tech – controlling earth’s climate using manmade technologies – is a concept countries around the world have long dreamt of conquering. In what on any other…
India – Cyclone Tauktae – Storm sends back rubbish dumped at sea Nature | India | Cyclone Tauktae Nature is fighting back! As Cyclone Tauktae brushes past the coast of Oman and slams into several Indian coastal states, nature has a surprise delivery – rubbish, garbage, trash, human created waste…
Latest studies into Tree communications discover community formation and resource sharing Environment | Scientific Research | Tree Communication | Climate Change There has been now, since the turn of the 21st century a growing and widely accepted recognition of how trees communicate with each other. This discovery over the last…
Wild horses and donkeys are digging wells, providing a source of water for wildlife USA| Wild horses and donkeys have surprises scientists by digging wells in the desert for water, providing a vital life line to wildlife and boosting ecosystems. When you think of a well, naturally you think of…
NGO Global Witness has published a report showing that 2019 had a record number of environmental protesters and activists killed world wide Record number of environmental protesters and activists killed say Global Witness According to a new report from NGO Global Witness, 212 environmental activists and protesters were killed during…
Priti Patel backs police decision to declare Extinction Rebellion a Terror Group UK Home Secretary – Priti Patel backs police decision to declare Extinction Rebellion members Terrorists Priti Patel, the UK’s Home Secretary, has supported a decision by anti-terror police to include the extreme environmental group Extinction Rebellion (XR) on a list of extremist terror…
