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SustainableGetting real about the UAE’s climate change goals

April 19, 202017 min

This story is a part of Covering Climate Now’s week of coverage focused on Climate Solutions, to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Covering Climate Now is a global journalism collaboration committed to strengthening coverage of the climate story. In public rhetoric, at least, the UAE government confronts head-on the threat of global warming and acknowledges its role as part of the climate change problem. The UAE was one of the first...

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SustainableThe climate: ‘A more formidable crisis looms in the background’

April 18, 202010 min

This story originally appeared on Mashable and is republished here as part of livehealthy.ae’s participation in Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. It kicks off a week of coverage of the climate crisis. After Earth experienced its second-hottest year in 140 years of record-keeping in 2019, the first few months of 2020 have either broken historic monthly records, or come close to doing so. January 2020...

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Community SustainableEarth Day: Climate change remains threat number one after Covid-19

March 28, 202010 min

Remember climate change, the great existential cloud hanging over the human race and the entire planet? Perhaps not. After all, most of us are now increasingly preoccupied with the newer threat from the coronavirus, or Covid-19: how to avoid catching it, what to do if we do and how to survive the economic meltdown that now seems inevitable in the face of closed shops and schools, grounded airlines and panic in the stock markets. There...

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Community Health SustainableWork from home and save the world

March 27, 202011 min

As the number of Covid-19 cases continues to rise around the world, it might seem insensitive to talk about the possible upsides of the virus, but upsides there most assuredly are. As companies and individuals follow the advice of their governments to self-isolate and stay away from the office, one of the biggest changes taking place is the sudden and unprecedented uptake of homeworking. We can only hope that, when the threat of Covid-19 has...

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Community SustainableWhy isn’t the climate crisis treated with the same urgency as coronavirus?

March 16, 202014 min

This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. It is a global emergency that has already killed on a mass scale and threatens to send millions more to early graves. As its effects spread, it could destabilize entire economies and overwhelm poorer countries that are lacking resources and infrastructure. But this is...

by Asha Sherwood

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Community SustainableConnect With Nature: inspiring a new generation of eco-warriors

November 3, 201918 min

We’re all trying to do our bit for the environment, right? Saying no to straws and recycling plastic bottles is all good and well, but is it really possible to make a difference and save the planet? Connect With Nature is hoping to prove this is possible, thanks to a combination of modern technology and the great outdoors. The new initiative is the brainchild of the Emirates Nature-WWF in collaboration with the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi...

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Community Health SustainableWorkplace wellness: ‘People need to be inside healthy environments’

October 28, 201910 min

The UAE is taking workplace wellness to the next level by promoting the WELL Building Standard, which aims to boost employee performance by improving everything from the air they breath to the desks they sit at. “Currently, companies are looking at wellness strategies, like programs for nutrition, smoking cessation, giving somebody a gym membership and they’re really not working,” said Ann Marie Aguilar, director of European operations at the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) in...

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Community SustainableThe climate change movement is unstoppable — it has to be

October 4, 201910 min

This article appears as part of livehealthy.ae‘s partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 300 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. By António Guterres On the eve of the September UN Climate Action Summit, young women and men around the world mobilized by the millions and told global leaders: “You are failing us.” They are right. Global emissions are increasing. Temperatures are rising. The consequences for oceans, forests, weather patterns,...

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Health SustainableEven in the desert, the healing power of trees

October 1, 201918 min

“If the Hour (the day of Resurrection) is about to be established and one of you was holding a palm shoot, let him take advantage of even one second before the Hour is established to plant it.” – Prophet Mohammed. Sitting under an apple tree, Isaac Newton discovered the law of gravity. Sitting under a huge Bodhi tree, a prince found enlightenment and became the Buddha. And under the majestic palm trees, a group sat with...

by Caline Malek

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Community SustainableNYU Abu Dhabi studies lacertid lizard’s climate change chances

September 23, 201914 min

This story is part of livehealthy.ae’s partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 300 news outlets launched to strengthen coverage of the climate story leading up to the United Nations Climate Action Summit. Lacertid lizards are adapting to climate change across a wide variety of environments, but they are starting to disappear from cooler regions and won’t be able to cope with rising temperatures forever, according to a new study...

by Ann Marie McQueen

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Sustainable5 ways this Dubai environmental consultant reduces his waste

September 22, 20199 min

This story is part of livehealthy.ae‘s partnership with Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 300 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story leading up to the United Nations Climate Action Summit. Ryan Ingram sure walks the talk when it comes to keeping his waste to an absolute minimum. During an interview earlier this year, he slowly ate every crumb of his Costa sandwich, sipped the last drop of his latte...

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