SeaWeb’s Too Precious To Wear campaign raises awareness of the threats posed to coral by the international trade. Kristian Teleki, who is SeaWeb’s vice president for science initiatives and based in London. “The Doha meeting represents a unique opportunity for...
A polar bear walks on the edge of Hudson Bay outside Churchill, Mantioba. Polar bears return every year to Churchill, the polar bear capital of the world, where they hunt for seals on the icepack until the spring thaw. (Paul...
Doha :: Qatar
| updated Sat Mar 06 17:50:48 -0800 2010
| green-news
A Qatari professional will travel to Antarctica on a mission to help raise awareness in Qatar about climate change and the importance of protecting the environment. Ahead of his expedition to the end of the Earth, he visited schoolchildren in...
QNA Doha: Rain emergency teams in all municipalities have continued intensive efforts to pump out the accumulated rainwater from the main streets, roundabouts and residential areas. The rain emergency committee at the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning has supervised...
Qatar is a bidder for hosting the 2012 United Nations climate summit...The South Korean delegation had announced its decision to bid for the 2012 convention on the sidelines of the recently concluded Copenhagen summit. The 17th conference of the UN...
Doha :: Qatar
| updated Sat Feb 27 21:05:46 -0800 2010
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Innovation and education can provide the world with an alternate energy source and the United States would like to work together with Qatar to �find the solution.� Steven Chu, PhD, US Secretary of Energy who recently gave a talk at...
In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera, fugitive rebel leader Guy Philippe said the Haitian government failed to adequately deal with the aftermath of the devastating quake. More than a million people were made homeless by the deadly quake, many...
Texas — Exxon Mobil Corp. said Tuesday that operations have begun at a natural gas facility it is developing with Qatar Petroleum. The second phase of the Al Khaleej Gas project in the Persian Gulf emirate of Qatar has a...
Doha :: Qatar
| updated Sun Feb 21 17:48:14 -0800 2010
| green-news
With the rainy season fast approaching, one expert even warns that there will be more dead people in the next four to six weeks than during the earthquake itself.
The number of fatalities due to road traffic accidents in Qatar dropped by 3.4 percent last year compared to the figures of 2008, according to a traffic survey for 2009. Brigadier Mohammed Saad al Kharji, Director of the Traffic Department...
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