MUSCAT: The Green Energy Oman (GEO) project — one of the Sultanate of Oman’s flagship green hydrogen and ammonia initiatives — remains firmly on course, with project partner InterContinental Energy (ICE) expressing confidence that the venture will be able to supply competitively priced green ammonia to European markets in the early 2030s while driving production […]
Western Europe’s second record-shattering heat wave in two months aligns with a grim trend: For the past three decades, Europe has been warming faster than any other continent. Average temperatures there have climbed by roughly 1 degree Fahrenheit (0.56 degrees Celsius) per decade since the mid-1990s, more than double the pace of warming worldwide, according […]
Whether cities or villages, many communities across Europe spend the day and night of June 24 celebrating Midsummer. Congregating around bonfires, or sometimes maypoles, sporting handwoven wreaths of wildflowers or oak leaves, they’ll sing, jump, dance, eat, drink, catch up and celebrate the arrival of the longest day of the year. As a scholar of […]
Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine is often, and misleadingly, characterised as a great power conflict. The narrative goes like this: Russia went to war against Ukraine because it felt threatened by NATO’s enlargement into eastern Europe after 1991. The real enemy is the United States, which is, at the very least, “principally responsible” for the […]
