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Baish Beach is a stretch of sand in the Farasan Islands, located 50 km off the Saudi port city of Jazan, near Yemen and Eritrea. The proximity to Yemen is another; as example the British Foreign Office currently deems Jazan off-limits, although there are no specific restrictions on travel to the Farasan Islands beyond general warnings about sea vessels being piracy targets. This year’s World Environment Day (WED) put a high beam on illegal trade of wildlife. MORE
Countries like Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Kuwait, and Djibouti will see their urban population doubling over the next 20 years. In Rabat last month I attended a series of fascinating exchanges among several Mayors and ministers of urban and local administration from Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, and the Palestinian Territories. Architecture & Urban Beirut Egypt Iraq Kuwait world bank YemenMiddle East city heads want to make their cities more sustainable. MORE
One tanker off the coast of Yemen is a floating time bomb. Yemen’s ticking time bomb oil tanker held by rebels. A tanker from Greece dumped its bilge and catastrophic amounts of tar and oil are clogging Israel’s beaches. MORE
Yemen — Village in the Manakhah District of the Sana’a Governorate in the Haraz Mountains. Conflict and civil insecurity are also primary drivers of food insecurity in Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Yemen and parts of Myanmar and Nigeria. MORE
Arid countries like Yemen are already using low tech watercones to funnel sea water to drinking water. Yemen funnels seawater to drinking water with the low tech watercone. Harvesting water from the air is not a new idea. Another funneling device is being developed by an Italian designer to trap water vapor in a Warkawater tower to harvest potable water directly from the air. MORE
The report developed by the center maps out the renewable energy future of its 13 member countries and states, including the nations of Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine (not yet a nation), Sudan, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen. Yemen plans to have 28.2% Libya and Yemen need to continue enhancing their regulatory framework, implementation capacity, and electricity pricing. MORE
Yemen isn’t as hot as Saudi, but the temperatures this Ramadan have been high enough to make waiting out the long daylight hours without food and drink very, very hard. At the moment, according to former BBC reporter Caroline Gluck , there’s plenty of food in Yemen. Because of a longstanding addiction to khat and general mismanagement of natural resources, Yemen has to import about 90% of its food. In Yemen, the Horn of Africa, or in Gaza. MORE
Iraqi architect Salma Samar Damluji has won the ‘Global Award for Sustainable Architecture’ for her mud-brick renovation work in Yemen. From the stunning mud mosque of Djenne in Mali to the clay tower homes of Yemen , earth architecture has been used to create some stunning and sustainable buildings. In 1980 she joined the UN and was posted to Yemen where she became fascinated by the mud fortresses of Hadramut. MORE
Abdulmalik, a 13-year-old boy from Yemen’s capital city Sana’a, started chewing khat leaves at the age of seven. “My In patriarchal Yemen, the ritual was restricted to the province of men for millennia. The WFP estimates that about 15 million person-hours per day are spent chewing khat in Yemen, the poorest country in the Arab world. Donald Burgess from Yemen’s UNICEF office echoed Aleryani’s concerns about addiction. Food & Health Israel khat Yemen MORE
Terrorists probably come to mind long before honey when people think of Yemen , but the raw Yemeni honey Balqees had for sale at the recent Masdar Festival was far and away the yummiest honey I ever put in my mouth. Cooler than Wadi Do’ani, Usaimat is located in northern Yemen, where the resilient Sidr tree also grows en masse. MORE
If I were in charge of promoting tourism in Yemen, I’d be using the native dragon tree, or Socotra tree, as my mascot. The Latin name of the endangered Socotra dragon tree or dragon blood tree is Dracaena cinnabari and it is native to the Socotra archipelago of islands in Yemen in the Indian Ocean. The largest island of Yemen is also called Socotra and it comprises about 95% of the landmass of the archipelago. MORE
Global Citizenship in the Classroom: A guide for teachers A practical and reflective guide for teachers This guide is packed with practical tools and advice for teachers wanting to embed global citizenship in their classrooms. MORE
Humanitarian crises erupt in Libya, Yemen and Syria as the populations revolt against their oppressive leaders. From the very start, the price of food has played an important role in the emerging Arab Spring which has swept across Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria , Jordan , Yemen, Syria and Libya. Now, as the conflict reaches a stalemate in Yemen, Syria and Libya after months of fighting, the unsteady economic and political situation has lead to reports of widespread hunger. MORE
Yemen needs international help. Neither war-torn Yemen nor its neighbours have the capacity to manage and mitigate the consequences of such a huge spill – and private salvage operators will be reluctant to take on a job inside a conflict zone, the UN has said. The FSO Safer from above. MORE
A particularly virulent strain of stem rust that first struck Uganda’s wheat crops in1999 before it spread up into Sudan and Yemen, Ug99 might have met its match in a 5,000 year old weed. Researchers from the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Agriculture and Environment sought to find a gene that can stand up to the Ug99 stem rust pathogen, which has decimated wheat crops in a curl of countries spreading east from Uganda and up into Yemen. MORE
To mark this milestone, Foreign Policy have put together a list of the seven fastest growing cities in the world and it turns out that the capital city of Yemen, Sana’a, is one of them. It’s been a tumultuous year for Yemen, which has seen daily shellings and protests calling on the current president Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign. Yemen is believed to be one of the poorest nations on earth with many residents heavily dependent on money sent to them from relatives working abroad. MORE
Tawakul Karman, the 32-year-old mother of three who formed the group Women Journalist Without Chains in 2005, dedicated her prize to the women of Yemen fighting against tribalism and oppression. Yemen is believed to be one of the poorest nations in the world, it has huge problems with regard to women’s rights and is also struggling with environmental problems such as extreme water shortages. For more on Yemen see: Water & The Middle East At A Glance (Infographic). MORE
Even now an oil tanker off the coast of Yemen seized by rebels can blow up spilling more oil than the Exxon Valdez into the Red Sea. The FSO Safer is a sinking oil tanker off the coast of Yemen. The Red Sea is in danger of environmental degradation. MORE
To the outside world, Yemen is an obscure distant land where Al Qaeda terrorists hang out and men sit around chewing khat , but to its own residents and others familiar with the Middle East, the land harbors a treasure trove of historic artefacts (and so much more). MORE
” But for people living in Yemen, hope was almost completely extinguished with the lights. So she and her all-girl posse developed low cost solar-powered solutions with help from an entrepreneurship program offered through their school by the non profit INJAZ Yemen, an offshoot of the Colorado-based business education program Junior Achievement Worldwide. MORE
It is illegal to be gay in 78 countries around the world, but in five countries –– three of which are in the Middle East (Iran, Saudi Arabia and Yemen) –– it is punishable by death. Cities eco-travel Kuwait Morocco Saudi Arabia travelling Yemen MORE
Yemen paints over a painful past. Yemen is one of the poorest Arab countries, with a young, rapidly growing population and soaring unemployment. Following Tunisia’s 2011 revolution and simultaneous with Egypt’s uprising, Yemen’s protests targeted economic conditions and corruption before escalating to demands for governmental reform. Architecture & Urban Germany graffitti Israel Palestinian Authority peaceful protest street art Yemen MORE
Ghat, khat or gat is another vice that started in Yemen, but if you look around the markets around the Middle East you will find ghat leaves for sale – even in Israel. It’s been creating some environmental problems in Yemen too. . Hanging out, chewing gat in Yemen. MORE
The locust outbreak in Yemen. Images we have here are from Yemen. . Locusts eating grapes in yemen. They are working closely with these countries as well as their neighbours, Djibouti and Eritrea, while monitoring Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen for any developments. MORE
Yemen may be water poor but the country has a rich heritage of managing scare water resources effectively through community co-operation. The arid and water scarce environment of Yemen makes life very difficult for the average Yemeni. Al-Eryani explains that Yemen has a long history of water scarcity and so have they been forced to work on its sustainable management for many years. For more on water issues in Yemen see: Yemen May Be First Country To Run Out Of Water. MORE
Khat addiction in Yemen has reached epic proportions and not only among adults. Whereas drinking khat juice is the new hip thing to do in Tel Aviv, in Yemen the epidemic has more serious consequences among the youth. Khalid al-Karimi is a translator and reporter for The Yemen Times. In March The Guardian reported that roughly 22% of Yemen’s population was facing severe hunger, yet most households spend up to 50% of their income on feeding their khat addiction. MORE
While living in the extremely arid desert terrain of the Arabia Felix (late 7th Century BC) , now known as Yemen, water was treated as a valuable commodity. Imagine a culture that could teach today’s society a thing or two about respecting and harvesting the free, natural resource of water. The Nabataeans were green before their time. They followed a mission of ingenuity while other tribes relied on Nature’s unpredictable handouts. MORE
Fleeing to Yemen. Refugee camps in Kenya have long since reached their healthy capacity, so many refugees desperate to flee the famine and violence in Somalia are risking the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen. Already home to 192,000 Somalis, Yemen is itself one of the poorest, hungriest, and thirstiest countries in the world. Yemen’s Water Crisis Could Worsen Security. MORE
Khat addiction in Yemen has reached epic proportions and not only among adults. Whereas drinking khat juice is the new hip thing to do in Tel Aviv, in Yemen the epidemic has more serious consequences among the youth. Khalid al-Karimi is a translator and reporter for The Yemen Times. In March The Guardian reported that roughly 22% of Yemen’s population was facing severe hunger, yet most households spend up to 50% of their income on feeding their khat addiction. MORE
Get swine flu updates for the PA, Israel, Yemen, Iraq, Tunisia and Jordan. Nine confirmed deaths were reported in Yemen in the last two months; three deaths in Iraq; two in Jordan; and 20 non-fatal infections in Tunisia. Food & Health Iraq Israel Jordan Palestinian Authority swine flu Tunisia YemenAre you at risk? MORE
Award-winning architect Salma Samar Damluji speaks to GreenProphet about her mud architecture work in Yemen and why she hates Dubai. She has also worked in Yemen restoring and renovating eco-friendly mud buildings in Yemen’s Wadi Hadramout where ancient building disappear over night after a quick bribe to the local governor. “In One country that Damluji believes has been able to hold back the mass commercialisation of architecture is Yemen. MORE
Food & Health DIY food recipe YemenCrunchy, tasty popcorn, made on your stove top, with nothing but goodness in it. My friend was amused that I have no microwave oven. How can I deal with food all day long and not own one? And how were we going to pop the popcorn she’d brought over? The health risks associated with microwave ovens and foods packaged especially for them like microwave popcorn packages put me off. MORE
She also emphasised that as well as the Egyptian and Turkish destinations which appeared in its top ten, ResponsibleTravel.com sells tours and accommodation in a range of other Middle Eastern countries including Yemen, Palestine, Oman, Iran and Syria. Travel & Nature eco-tourism Egypt environment green travel Iran Middle East Oman Palestine Syria tourism transportation travel Turkey YemenResponsibleTravel.com customers on holiday in Egypt. Feluccas and Pharoahs, a popular trip. MORE
The FSO Safer is a sinking oil tanker off the coast of Yemen. From there the oil can be shipped to Europe and other nearby locations, removing dangerous elements like the Taliban and the Houthis in Yemen out of the story overland, though piracy is still an issue. MORE
Yemen has the dubious distinction of being the first country that is expected to entirely run out of water , as the globe heats up. Sabrina Faber, who has lived in Yemen for many years, and experienced water shortages herself, has won 75,000 Euros for her idea: a rainwater harvesting system incorporated into rooftops, based on the traditional designs she saw in the countryside. Yemen’s average annual precipitation varies greatly, with both droughts and floods common. MORE
We are planning to organize a workshop about conservation of sharks in Yemen in cooperation with the Ministry of Environment in Yemen. The aim of this workshop is to produce recommendations for strengthening shark catch legislation and reaching a shark conservation plan in Yemen. We are waiting for a suitable time to start or preparation for the workshop due to the current unrest in Yemen. MORE
Kratom comes from a leaf, much like gat, or kat, chewed in many parts of the Middle East, especially Yemen and hipsters in Tel Aviv. Man chewing gat, or qat in Yemen. Like cannabis, kratom –– a long-used natural pain relief substance found in Southeast Asia –– is believed to bring about medical breakthroughs. Some liken it to herbal valium or Tylenol, but it’s a remedy say those from the wellness fringes, that deserves more respect. MORE
However, the scale of the problem and the need for urgent international coordination to secure this basic commodity is becoming more urgent today as stories and pictures from Yemen warn of an inevitable social collapse in the middle of political uncertainty. But of all counties in the region, the one coming closest to running dry is Yemen. Past predictions that Yemen may be the first country to run out of water are no longer implausible. MORE
A child in Yemen. We talked about the dire situation in Yemen back in 2011. The situation in Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan and Yemen worsened in the latter part of 2018 largely because of conflict, while Somalia, Syria and the Lake Chad Basin have seen some improvements in line with improved security. MORE
To the outside world, Yemen is an obscure distant land where Al Qaeda terrorists hang out and men sit around chewing khat , but to its own residents and others familiar with the Middle East, the land harbors a treasure trove of historic artefacts (and so much more). MORE
Spectacular images of the Republic of Yemen have captured its vibrant and unique culture, pristine wilderness, and well-preserved antiquities, but don’t get too excited about traveling there soon. Yemen is the poorest country in the Middle East. Ten other Yemeni sites await determination on UNESCO’s “tentative list” Yemen has been at the crossroads of the Middle East, Africa, and Asia for thousands of years thanks to its place on the ancient spice routes. MORE
Such trade “resilience” is also largely unaffordable in a place like Yemen – the region’s poorest country, which has 25 million people in an extremely water scarce (and hence food scarce) environment. The MENA region is most at risk, with the most water-stressed countries being Bahrain (1), Qatar (2), Kuwait (3), Libya (4) Djibouti (5), UAE (6), Yemen (7), Saudi Arabia (8), Oman (9) and Egypt (10), according to the Maplecroft Water Stress Index 2012. MORE
If you have lost faith in earth architecture, take note: Yemen’s Manhattan of the desert boasts 400 habitable clay towers! Yemen has a UNESCO World Heritage Site secret , but it’s not so well-kept anymore. One of the most impressive examples of earth architecture that has survived for hundreds of years, the Shibam district in Hadramaut province boasts 437 tall clay towers, of which 400 are still habitable. MORE
If existing members don’t cough up about $70 million USD, trees like this one in Yemen could be under threat. Image of Socotra dragon tree in Yemen via wikipedia. Business & Politics Travel & Nature Canada Israel Israel-Palestinian conflict Palestine UNESCO United Nations US YemenVoluntary funding to support nature and ancient cities is thinned even more as Canada cuts its funding to UNESCO. MORE
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AUGUST 13, 2020
Yemen needs international help. Neither war-torn Yemen nor its neighbours have the capacity to manage and mitigate the consequences of such a huge spill – and private salvage operators will be reluctant to take on a job inside a conflict zone, the UN has said. The FSO Safer from above.
Green Prophet
FEBRUARY 5, 2014
Terrorists probably come to mind long before honey when people think of Yemen , but the raw Yemeni honey Balqees had for sale at the recent Masdar Festival was far and away the yummiest honey I ever put in my mouth. Cooler than Wadi Do’ani, Usaimat is located in northern Yemen, where the resilient Sidr tree also grows en masse.
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Green Prophet
NOVEMBER 18, 2012
Abdulmalik, a 13-year-old boy from Yemen’s capital city Sana’a, started chewing khat leaves at the age of seven. “My In patriarchal Yemen, the ritual was restricted to the province of men for millennia. The WFP estimates that about 15 million person-hours per day are spent chewing khat in Yemen, the poorest country in the Arab world. Donald Burgess from Yemen’s UNICEF office echoed Aleryani’s concerns about addiction. Food & Health Israel khat Yemen
Green Prophet
MARCH 29, 2015
Spectacular images of the Republic of Yemen have captured its vibrant and unique culture, pristine wilderness, and well-preserved antiquities, but don’t get too excited about traveling there soon. Yemen is the poorest country in the Middle East. Ten other Yemeni sites await determination on UNESCO’s “tentative list” Yemen has been at the crossroads of the Middle East, Africa, and Asia for thousands of years thanks to its place on the ancient spice routes.
Green Prophet
OCTOBER 20, 2014
If I were in charge of promoting tourism in Yemen, I’d be using the native dragon tree, or Socotra tree, as my mascot. The Latin name of the endangered Socotra dragon tree or dragon blood tree is Dracaena cinnabari and it is native to the Socotra archipelago of islands in Yemen in the Indian Ocean. The largest island of Yemen is also called Socotra and it comprises about 95% of the landmass of the archipelago.
Green Prophet
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Yemen — Village in the Manakhah District of the Sana’a Governorate in the Haraz Mountains. Conflict and civil insecurity are also primary drivers of food insecurity in Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Yemen and parts of Myanmar and Nigeria.
Green Prophet
JULY 11, 2011
Humanitarian crises erupt in Libya, Yemen and Syria as the populations revolt against their oppressive leaders. From the very start, the price of food has played an important role in the emerging Arab Spring which has swept across Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria , Jordan , Yemen, Syria and Libya. Now, as the conflict reaches a stalemate in Yemen, Syria and Libya after months of fighting, the unsteady economic and political situation has lead to reports of widespread hunger.
Green Prophet
JULY 6, 2012
Khat addiction in Yemen has reached epic proportions and not only among adults. Whereas drinking khat juice is the new hip thing to do in Tel Aviv, in Yemen the epidemic has more serious consequences among the youth. Khalid al-Karimi is a translator and reporter for The Yemen Times. In March The Guardian reported that roughly 22% of Yemen’s population was facing severe hunger, yet most households spend up to 50% of their income on feeding their khat addiction.
Green Prophet
MAY 2, 2013
To the outside world, Yemen is an obscure distant land where Al Qaeda terrorists hang out and men sit around chewing khat , but to its own residents and others familiar with the Middle East, the land harbors a treasure trove of historic artefacts (and so much more).
Green Prophet
DECEMBER 21, 2011
If you have lost faith in earth architecture, take note: Yemen’s Manhattan of the desert boasts 400 habitable clay towers! Yemen has a UNESCO World Heritage Site secret , but it’s not so well-kept anymore. One of the most impressive examples of earth architecture that has survived for hundreds of years, the Shibam district in Hadramaut province boasts 437 tall clay towers, of which 400 are still habitable.
Green Prophet
JULY 12, 2011
However, the scale of the problem and the need for urgent international coordination to secure this basic commodity is becoming more urgent today as stories and pictures from Yemen warn of an inevitable social collapse in the middle of political uncertainty. But of all counties in the region, the one coming closest to running dry is Yemen. Past predictions that Yemen may be the first country to run out of water are no longer implausible.
Green Prophet
MAY 2, 2013
To the outside world, Yemen is an obscure distant land where Al Qaeda terrorists hang out and men sit around chewing khat , but to its own residents and others familiar with the Middle East, the land harbors a treasure trove of historic artefacts (and so much more).
Green Prophet
MAY 26, 2012
Award-winning architect Salma Samar Damluji speaks to GreenProphet about her mud architecture work in Yemen and why she hates Dubai. She has also worked in Yemen restoring and renovating eco-friendly mud buildings in Yemen’s Wadi Hadramout where ancient building disappear over night after a quick bribe to the local governor. “In One country that Damluji believes has been able to hold back the mass commercialisation of architecture is Yemen.
Green Prophet
NOVEMBER 1, 2011
If existing members don’t cough up about $70 million USD, trees like this one in Yemen could be under threat. Image of Socotra dragon tree in Yemen via wikipedia. Business & Politics Travel & Nature Canada Israel Israel-Palestinian conflict Palestine UNESCO United Nations US YemenVoluntary funding to support nature and ancient cities is thinned even more as Canada cuts its funding to UNESCO.
Green Prophet
OCTOBER 9, 2013
It is illegal to be gay in 78 countries around the world, but in five countries –– three of which are in the Middle East (Iran, Saudi Arabia and Yemen) –– it is punishable by death. Cities eco-travel Kuwait Morocco Saudi Arabia travelling Yemen
Green Prophet
APRIL 25, 2012
Yemen paints over a painful past. Yemen is one of the poorest Arab countries, with a young, rapidly growing population and soaring unemployment. Following Tunisia’s 2011 revolution and simultaneous with Egypt’s uprising, Yemen’s protests targeted economic conditions and corruption before escalating to demands for governmental reform. Architecture & Urban Germany graffitti Israel Palestinian Authority peaceful protest street art Yemen
Green Prophet
JANUARY 29, 2013
Get swine flu updates for the PA, Israel, Yemen, Iraq, Tunisia and Jordan. Nine confirmed deaths were reported in Yemen in the last two months; three deaths in Iraq; two in Jordan; and 20 non-fatal infections in Tunisia. Food & Health Iraq Israel Jordan Palestinian Authority swine flu Tunisia YemenAre you at risk?
Green Prophet
MARCH 5, 2013
Such trade “resilience” is also largely unaffordable in a place like Yemen – the region’s poorest country, which has 25 million people in an extremely water scarce (and hence food scarce) environment. The MENA region is most at risk, with the most water-stressed countries being Bahrain (1), Qatar (2), Kuwait (3), Libya (4) Djibouti (5), UAE (6), Yemen (7), Saudi Arabia (8), Oman (9) and Egypt (10), according to the Maplecroft Water Stress Index 2012.
Green Prophet
APRIL 3, 2013
Countries like Egypt, Iraq, Yemen, Kuwait, and Djibouti will see their urban population doubling over the next 20 years. In Rabat last month I attended a series of fascinating exchanges among several Mayors and ministers of urban and local administration from Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, and the Palestinian Territories. Architecture & Urban Beirut Egypt Iraq Kuwait world bank YemenMiddle East city heads want to make their cities more sustainable.
Green Prophet
OCTOBER 11, 2012
Food & Health DIY food recipe YemenCrunchy, tasty popcorn, made on your stove top, with nothing but goodness in it. My friend was amused that I have no microwave oven. How can I deal with food all day long and not own one? And how were we going to pop the popcorn she’d brought over? The health risks associated with microwave ovens and foods packaged especially for them like microwave popcorn packages put me off.
Green Prophet
APRIL 16, 2011
She also emphasised that as well as the Egyptian and Turkish destinations which appeared in its top ten, ResponsibleTravel.com sells tours and accommodation in a range of other Middle Eastern countries including Yemen, Palestine, Oman, Iran and Syria. Travel & Nature eco-tourism Egypt environment green travel Iran Middle East Oman Palestine Syria tourism transportation travel Turkey YemenResponsibleTravel.com customers on holiday in Egypt. Feluccas and Pharoahs, a popular trip.
Green Prophet
OCTOBER 7, 2011
Tawakul Karman, the 32-year-old mother of three who formed the group Women Journalist Without Chains in 2005, dedicated her prize to the women of Yemen fighting against tribalism and oppression. Yemen is believed to be one of the poorest nations in the world, it has huge problems with regard to women’s rights and is also struggling with environmental problems such as extreme water shortages. For more on Yemen see: Water & The Middle East At A Glance (Infographic).
Green Prophet
JUNE 13, 2021
Even now an oil tanker off the coast of Yemen seized by rebels can blow up spilling more oil than the Exxon Valdez into the Red Sea. The FSO Safer is a sinking oil tanker off the coast of Yemen. The Red Sea is in danger of environmental degradation.
Green Prophet
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
Yemen may be water poor but the country has a rich heritage of managing scare water resources effectively through community co-operation. The arid and water scarce environment of Yemen makes life very difficult for the average Yemeni. Al-Eryani explains that Yemen has a long history of water scarcity and so have they been forced to work on its sustainable management for many years. For more on water issues in Yemen see: Yemen May Be First Country To Run Out Of Water.
Green Prophet
MAY 6, 2020
Ghat, khat or gat is another vice that started in Yemen, but if you look around the markets around the Middle East you will find ghat leaves for sale – even in Israel. It’s been creating some environmental problems in Yemen too. . Hanging out, chewing gat in Yemen.
Green Prophet
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
The locust outbreak in Yemen. Images we have here are from Yemen. . Locusts eating grapes in yemen. They are working closely with these countries as well as their neighbours, Djibouti and Eritrea, while monitoring Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Yemen for any developments.
Green Prophet
APRIL 30, 2011
Yemen has the dubious distinction of being the first country that is expected to entirely run out of water , as the globe heats up. Sabrina Faber, who has lived in Yemen for many years, and experienced water shortages herself, has won 75,000 Euros for her idea: a rainwater harvesting system incorporated into rooftops, based on the traditional designs she saw in the countryside. Yemen’s average annual precipitation varies greatly, with both droughts and floods common.
Green Prophet
APRIL 12, 2015
Arid countries like Yemen are already using low tech watercones to funnel sea water to drinking water. Yemen funnels seawater to drinking water with the low tech watercone. Harvesting water from the air is not a new idea. Another funneling device is being developed by an Italian designer to trap water vapor in a Warkawater tower to harvest potable water directly from the air.
Green Prophet
OCTOBER 31, 2011
To mark this milestone, Foreign Policy have put together a list of the seven fastest growing cities in the world and it turns out that the capital city of Yemen, Sana’a, is one of them. It’s been a tumultuous year for Yemen, which has seen daily shellings and protests calling on the current president Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign. Yemen is believed to be one of the poorest nations on earth with many residents heavily dependent on money sent to them from relatives working abroad.
Green Prophet
JULY 6, 2012
Khat addiction in Yemen has reached epic proportions and not only among adults. Whereas drinking khat juice is the new hip thing to do in Tel Aviv, in Yemen the epidemic has more serious consequences among the youth. Khalid al-Karimi is a translator and reporter for The Yemen Times. In March The Guardian reported that roughly 22% of Yemen’s population was facing severe hunger, yet most households spend up to 50% of their income on feeding their khat addiction.
Green Prophet
MAY 7, 2012
Iraqi architect Salma Samar Damluji has won the ‘Global Award for Sustainable Architecture’ for her mud-brick renovation work in Yemen. From the stunning mud mosque of Djenne in Mali to the clay tower homes of Yemen , earth architecture has been used to create some stunning and sustainable buildings. In 1980 she joined the UN and was posted to Yemen where she became fascinated by the mud fortresses of Hadramut.
Green Prophet
OCTOBER 21, 2020
The FSO Safer is a sinking oil tanker off the coast of Yemen. From there the oil can be shipped to Europe and other nearby locations, removing dangerous elements like the Taliban and the Houthis in Yemen out of the story overland, though piracy is still an issue.
The Green Changemakers
JULY 31, 2020
Global Citizenship in the Classroom: A guide for teachers A practical and reflective guide for teachers This guide is packed with practical tools and advice for teachers wanting to embed global citizenship in their classrooms.
Green Prophet
JANUARY 28, 2019
A child in Yemen. We talked about the dire situation in Yemen back in 2011. The situation in Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan and Yemen worsened in the latter part of 2018 largely because of conflict, while Somalia, Syria and the Lake Chad Basin have seen some improvements in line with improved security.
Green Prophet
JANUARY 7, 2013
” But for people living in Yemen, hope was almost completely extinguished with the lights. So she and her all-girl posse developed low cost solar-powered solutions with help from an entrepreneurship program offered through their school by the non profit INJAZ Yemen, an offshoot of the Colorado-based business education program Junior Achievement Worldwide.
Green Prophet
JUNE 6, 2016
Baish Beach is a stretch of sand in the Farasan Islands, located 50 km off the Saudi port city of Jazan, near Yemen and Eritrea. The proximity to Yemen is another; as example the British Foreign Office currently deems Jazan off-limits, although there are no specific restrictions on travel to the Farasan Islands beyond general warnings about sea vessels being piracy targets. This year’s World Environment Day (WED) put a high beam on illegal trade of wildlife.
Green Home Blog
APRIL 15, 2013
While living in the extremely arid desert terrain of the Arabia Felix (late 7th Century BC) , now known as Yemen, water was treated as a valuable commodity. Imagine a culture that could teach today’s society a thing or two about respecting and harvesting the free, natural resource of water. The Nabataeans were green before their time. They followed a mission of ingenuity while other tribes relied on Nature’s unpredictable handouts.
Green Prophet
APRIL 11, 2011
We are planning to organize a workshop about conservation of sharks in Yemen in cooperation with the Ministry of Environment in Yemen. The aim of this workshop is to produce recommendations for strengthening shark catch legislation and reaching a shark conservation plan in Yemen. We are waiting for a suitable time to start or preparation for the workshop due to the current unrest in Yemen.
Green Prophet
AUGUST 30, 2011
Fleeing to Yemen. Refugee camps in Kenya have long since reached their healthy capacity, so many refugees desperate to flee the famine and violence in Somalia are risking the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen. Already home to 192,000 Somalis, Yemen is itself one of the poorest, hungriest, and thirstiest countries in the world. Yemen’s Water Crisis Could Worsen Security.
Green Prophet
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
Kratom comes from a leaf, much like gat, or kat, chewed in many parts of the Middle East, especially Yemen and hipsters in Tel Aviv. Man chewing gat, or qat in Yemen. Like cannabis, kratom –– a long-used natural pain relief substance found in Southeast Asia –– is believed to bring about medical breakthroughs. Some liken it to herbal valium or Tylenol, but it’s a remedy say those from the wellness fringes, that deserves more respect.
Green Prophet
JULY 15, 2013
A particularly virulent strain of stem rust that first struck Uganda’s wheat crops in1999 before it spread up into Sudan and Yemen, Ug99 might have met its match in a 5,000 year old weed. Researchers from the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Agriculture and Environment sought to find a gene that can stand up to the Ug99 stem rust pathogen, which has decimated wheat crops in a curl of countries spreading east from Uganda and up into Yemen.
Green Prophet
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
One tanker off the coast of Yemen is a floating time bomb. Yemen’s ticking time bomb oil tanker held by rebels. A tanker from Greece dumped its bilge and catastrophic amounts of tar and oil are clogging Israel’s beaches.
Green Prophet
OCTOBER 2, 2013
The report developed by the center maps out the renewable energy future of its 13 member countries and states, including the nations of Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine (not yet a nation), Sudan, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen. Yemen plans to have 28.2% Libya and Yemen need to continue enhancing their regulatory framework, implementation capacity, and electricity pricing.
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