Temperatures in Arab countries are establishing new records each summer. The heat waves that are occurring in Kuwait, Iraq and Morocco have highlighted the consequences of climate change in the MENA region. All the while, scientists are expecting a continuous occurrence of such waves in the...
Economic development has constituted the only major motivation behind any government policies in the last century, where international trade has been the main element in ensuring the growth at national level. Nevertheless, the increasing danger of climate change problems has forced government to revise its policies...
The awareness of growing environmental problems related to our consumer based society where natural resources, mainly energy, were used without taking into consideration the impact of our daily usage of products on the planet, has come to an end. Unfortunately, the environment has changed with an unprecedented speed in the...
The world is witnessing a new war between “Conventional” energy producers -mainly states representing the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) - and the new “Unconventional” energy producers in the form of shale Oil or Gas, in particular the United States of America. Shale Oil and...
The recently established US led coalition aims to act against the massacres committed by the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria. What is peculiar, is that the more one looks into the issue the more one understands that a lot of countries in the coalition...
