GEMS Education launched the first-ever ‘plogging’ event in the UAE in partnership with DULSCO, as the first initiative to bring the GEMS Global Ambassadors together on a common mission earlier today. The GEMS Plogging Event aimed at bringing together 50 participants including students, staff, and parents from across 5 GEMS schools in Dubai to spread […]
ABU DHABI: The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) has launched an ambitious project aimed at numbering and coding old, endangered trees, which have historical importance in their natural environments and habitats, across the Emirate of Abu Dhabi – a first for the Agency. The Agency will implement the numbering programme through dual initiatives, which […]
ABU DHABI: The Abu Dhabi Emergency, Crisis and Disasters Committee for the COVID-19 Pandemic has approved the cancellation of COVID-19 testing entry requirements, effective Sunday, 19th September 2021, as part of the updated procedures to enter Abu Dhabi from within the UAE, announced today. The decision follows the announcement of a decreased COVID-19 infection rate […]
Meet Virginia Oliver who started trapping lobster off Maine’s rocky coast, when World War II was a distant event in the future, and women harvesting lobsters was a rare sighting. Almost a century later at age 101, she’s still doing it. The oldest lobster fisher in the state and perhaps the oldest one in the […]
Thailand taxi fleets are giving new meaning to the term “rooftop garden,” as they employ the roofs of cabs that went out of commission by the COVID19 crisis to serve as small vegetable plots. Drivers from two taxi cooperatives gathered the miniature gardens recently using black plastic garbage bags stretched across bamboo frames. The ultimate […]
Cadbury’s latest version of their 90s classic ‘cricket’ advertisement has gained quite a lot of attention recently. It’s a recreation of a Dairy Milk advertisement from the 1990s with women cricketers. It is perhaps a tiny yet meaningful initiative to recognize women athletes’ achievements and efforts. While the original that aired in 1993, showed a […]
While not lifeless yet, the old abandoned airport terminal at New Orleans Louis Armstrong International (MSY) still stands functional. Just months before the COVID pandemic swept the world, New Orleans inaugurated its sparkling new $1.3 billion (AED4billion) airport terminal, which speaks more to where the Crescent City, that was headed for the next 300 years […]
In a recent publication featured in University of Florida Press’ new book, “Picturing the Space Shuttle: The Early Years” several rare NASA images have come to life. It chronicles the shuttle program from 1965 until 1982, ending just a year into the spacecraft’s operational life. NASA’s first space shuttle was meant to be called Constitution; […]
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying an all-civilian brew has blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the first mission to orbit the globe. A huge fireball lightened the sky as the rocket’s nine engines began to pull away from Earth on Wednesday. After about 12 minutes later, the Dragon capsule separated […]
ABU DHABI: Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA) has announced the integration of the UAE PASS, with its Mobile App and Patient Portal, as part of the medical network’s continuous efforts to elevate the patient journey and ensure seamless access to SEHA platforms and services. This will now allow patients to use their UAE Pass […]
DUBAI: Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has completed the construction of its pavilion in the Sustainability District of Expo 2020 Dubai, which aligns with development and innovation, as reflected in the exterior of its design, and features a decorative ribbed façade that mimics onward moving portals consistent with the company’s progressive initiatives. Saeed Mohammed […]
