About half of the world’s poor suffer from waterborne diseases, of which over 6,000 – mainly children – die each day by consuming unsafe drinking water. Today, more than one billion people of the world’s population are without access to safe water. Knowing all this, one can’t but bee thrilled to hear about LifeStraw®, a [...]

Every morning, before heading to work, I turn on TV to news channels to know what’s the situation like now in the regions being hit by Hurricane Katrina… or the Monster Hurricane as it’s called.Whenever I try to write something about it I find myself left with no words strong enough to express my feelings [...]

Residents in Dubai have been reporting the presence of the redback spiders in their homes and gardens. According to AME Info, residents are concerned that a lack of availability of antivenom for the poisonous redback spider is endangering lives. The redback spider -scientifically known as “latrodectus hasselti“- is native to Australia and it is thought [...]

The Syrian Red Crescent Organization, Homs Branch invites photographers from all around the world, amateur or professional, to participate in its 2005 World Environment Day Photo Gallery which will be exhibited in the Museum of Azzehrawi Palace, Homs 5-9 June 2005.Closure date is May 20, 2005 and there is no participation fee.For more details and [...]

A waste-paper recycling campaign that seeks to raise the community’s awareness on the importance of collecting waste paper, launched a month ago may be extended throughout the Kingdom due to its success, according to the organisers. The campaign, carried out by the Friends of the Environment Society (FOE), with financing from the Canada Fund for [...]

I’m one of the people who hate throwing away things that can still be used. I suck at selling them, although some are really in good shape and can get me good money. So I end up giving them to those who are in need. Which is, in my opinion, better than all the money [...]

With the rapid expanding of population, suburbs have become densely populated where all the available land has been used up for construction, which forced governments to build on fertile soil, losing this soil forever. The consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables is low since no garden space is left available, people have to buy products [...]

This is an ad I found on Tunisia’s Daily Newspaper: “La Presse”. For those who can’t read Arabic, it says: now I can collect plastic bottles and win with “Net of Environment Friends”. “Net of Environment Friends” was first created in 2005 by the Ministry of Environment & Development to help minimize and prevent pollution [...]

A powerful earthquake has rocked central Iran, destroying buildings in several villages, killing hundreds of people and leaving many others injured. The magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck near Zarand in central Iran at 5:55 a.m. local time (0225 GMT). [Via: Subzero Blue, Sources: Eq.4eco (Arabic), CNN] Our hearts are with you Iran!

Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to proudly announce the launch of the newest info gateway into earthquake science: “When Earth Quakes”, which is the first consultative website by “Environment News”, a Ford Environmental Preservation Program Award winning project. With its regular update and interactive hi-tech, “When Earth Quakes” is supposed to be the most [...]