UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Dubai is now home to the largest vertical farm in the world [Fast Company, July 2022]

Title:

Dubai is now home to the largest vertical farm in the world

 

Author:

Adele Peters

 

Published:

Fast Company, 18 July 2022

https://www.fastcompany.com/90769765/dubai-now-has-the-largest-vertical-farm-in-the-world

 

From the article:

If you walk into a grocery store in Dubai, the spinach on the shelves will probably be from Europe—or even from as far away as the United States. Because of limited arable land and water, the United Arab Emirates imports about 90% of its food. But inside a warehouse-like building near the Dubai airport, a new vertical farm is now beginning to grow more than 2 million pounds of local leafy greens per year.

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) - Do you know about Dubai's new Museum of the Future? It opened on 22 February 2022

Name of new museum:

Museum of the Future

 

Focus of this museum: 

To reimagine the future, we must be open to new possibilities. Join us on a journey to 2071. Pioneer new worlds and ways of living, and return to shape today’s world for the better. 

For more information, visit the Museum of the Future website:

https://museumofthefuture.ae/en

Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), Norway - New report: Real estate wealth hidden in Dubai

Title:

New report: Real estate wealth hidden in Dubai  

 

Author:

Tiril Eid Barland

Published:

Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), 3 May 2022

https://www.nmbu.no/en/news/node/45432

 

From the news article:

In the new research paper “Who Owns Offshore Real Estate? Evidence from Dubai", Skatteforsk-researchers Annette Alstadsæter, Bluebery Planterose, Gabriel Zucman and Andreas Økland have gotten access to a unique dataset capturing ownership of about 800,000 properties in Dubai. 

Dubai announces Ramadan COVID-19 precautionary measures & education: next academic year [Arab News, 2021]

Title:

Dubai announces Ramadan COVID-19 precautionary measures

Published:

Arab News, 19 March 2021

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1828026/middle-east

From the article:

* Tarawih prayers can be performed in mosques on the condition that precautionary measures are applied 

 

* The country’s education ministry has not yet decided on the learning method of the next academic year