UAE-based Jumeirah Restaurant Group is to ban the use of plastic straws, stirrers and toothpicks across all its outlets from Sunday (March 18th).
UAE authorities have taken action to clamp down on illegal fishing nets after the discovery of five protected dugongs in recent weeks.
The $680m plant aims to treat 1.82 million tonnes of solid waste annually, according to Hussain Nasser Lootah, director general of Dubai Municipality, as part of a bid towards 75 per cent clean energy generation by 2025
Salem Al Qaidi, owner of Al Qaidi Farms, has pledged to donate 100,000 trees to individuals and public places across the country.
As interviews go, this one is somewhat surreal: Dubai pop sensation DD Foxx in the washroom singing Mary J Blige to me. ‘What do you think?’ she coos as she finishes. I think she sounds incredible. And I also think this may be the one and only time I ever get serenaded from a UAE bathroom.
An exciting global initiative is coming to the UAE next month: The Global Goals World Cup (GGWCup) which aims to score highly in eradicating world issues including poverty, hunger, inequality and climate change via an open women’s football tournament will be taking place in Dubai on January 19th, 2018.
It is estimated by the US Environmental Protection Agency that 2 billion disposable single-use razors are thrown away every single year. Most can’t be recycled, as the handles are made of plastic and the blades are dangerous to disassemble, which means there are a staggering volume ending up in landfills or making their way to the ocean. And that, of course, is a big problem for both the environment and marine life.
Turning the pages of her book, Lily reads clearly, stopping every now and again to show her rapt audience the colourful pictures accompanying the words. They listen intently, cocking their head to one side as the eight-year-old finishes Where The Wild Things Are. As she closes the book, Lily, smiles and asks: ‘Did you like that?’
You did the North Pole expedition covering 128km through temperatures that fell as low as -30, what was the best and toughest experience you had while completing the challenge?
The expedition is an experience, and there is no better teacher, or process to evolve and grow than experiences. In this instance, the experience taught me countless lessons. Perhaps the most powerful to today was an experiential understanding and hence deep belief that with persistence, nothing is impossible. Facing the mental demons that emerge when you are skiing cross country for up to 14 hours per day in silence. Even an iPod freezes up there, so you have a whole lot of time with your own thoughts and feelings
The UAE, and in particular Dubai, has a global reputation for being the biggest, the boldest and the best with all it sets out to accomplish. Travel brochures tout high rise hotels that touch the sky, mega-sized malls in which you can lose yourself for days, man-made islands that can be admired as you whizz past in your rented out super yacht. But putting the glitz and the glamour aside, the UAE is also home to some stunning natural wonders that don’t get the attention they deserve when placed alongside their twenty first century counterparts.
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