yemen, Tag

The U.N., the government of Yemen and Houthi rebels have been in talks about how to handle the FSO Safer. Meanwhile, the enormous floating oil storage vessel remains abandoned in the Red Sea, threatening a massive...

Some villages in war-torn Yemen still don't have electricity since the recent conflict started nearly two years ago. So 24-year-old chemical engineering graduate Omer Badokhon invented a micro-scale biogas device to transform...

Professor David Kennedy of the University of Oxford just discovered hundreds of mysterious structures near ancient lava domes in Saudi Arabia. Using Google Earth, Kennedy found approximately 400 stone walls that are believed...

In the Arabian Sea, a storm of epic proportions is brewing, and it’s forecasted to bring record rains to Yemen and Oman. A tropical cyclone dubbed Chapala is strengthening rapidly, and experts predict it will bring eight...

The UN's World Food Programme has warned that Yemen is on the brink of famine as a result of the ongoing fighting in the country. “Right now, the conflict-driven convergence between the lack of staple food, access to clean...

The earthquake in Nepal, the riots in Baltimore, the London marathon – the best photography in news, culture and sport from around the world this week

World oil markets have responded with surprising resilience in the face of uncertainty, but are prices set to rocket?

The site of the ancient Thula Fort was recently threatened by the plans for construction of a road, which would disrupt the fragile architecture of the ruins.  The people of Thula reacted, and the preservation project was...

Recently, I explained how high oil prices can bring on financial collapse for oil importers. In this post, I’ll discuss the flip side of the situation: how oil exporters reach financial collapse.

As island nations around the world look for solutions to stem rising sea levels due to climate change, a new land mass has spontaneously popped out of the Red Sea...

The popular protests among the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are continuing to roil, and so, rather than the review of the countries that I have been discussing in the posts of the last few Sundays,...

Your informative report on the remarkable Gibe hydro-electric power project on the Omo river in Ethiopia (Report, 26 March) is of particular importance for a number of reasons...