Adventures

  • Greening the Middle East: Why Ambitious Planting Efforts Risk Fueling Future Biological Invasions

    Across the Middle East, nations are scaling up environmental restoration and greening initiatives at a historic pace. From the Middle East Green Initiative (MGI) to the Saudi Green Initiative (SGI), billions of trees are being planted to combat climate change, enhance urban livability, and restore degraded landscapes. These programs represent bold steps toward environmental sustainability

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  • AI for Good: reflections on AI Governance

    The AI for Good Global Summit is the leading United Nations platform for inclusive dialogue and collaborative action on artificial intelligence. Bringing together innovators, policymakers, industry leaders, and civil society, the summit aims to ensure that AI technologies accelerate progress toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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  • Artificial Intelligence and the Environment: Promise and Responsibility

    From predicting wildfires to powering smart cities, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being cast as the climate superhero of the 21st century. It’s crunching climate models, tracking endangered species (including us humans), and helping us squeeze more power from the sun and wind. Sounds like the ultimate green tech dream, right? Well… not so fast. As…

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  • Environmental Permits in Saudi Arabia: A Permitting Support Tool

    Being eligible to conduct Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) in Saudi Arabia is a key requirement for environmental consultants seeking to support development projects across the kingdom.

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  • The Great Language Divide: How Unequal Distribution in AI Training Data Shapes Our Digital Future

    The foundation of every artificial intelligence system lies in its training data, yet few realize how dramatically skewed this foundation truly is. As AI systems increasingly shape global communication, commerce, and culture, the distribution of languages in training datasets has become one of the most critical yet overlooked factors determining who benefits from the AI

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  • Cross-Functional Teams: When and Why They Matter

    In today’s fast-paced and complex business environment, companies need to be more agile, collaborative, and innovation-driven than ever before. One of the most effective ways to achieve this is through the use of cross-functional teams.

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  • Power Without Consequences

    Have you encountered people who are not (or little) affected by their decisions? How does an organisation, firm, or group of people allow Unequal Responsibility Mechanisms to evolve? The concept of power without accountability represents one of the most challenging paradoxes in governance, business, and international relations. When individuals or institutions wield significant influence while

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  • Mapping the Evapotranspiration: Different Scales and Urban Domain

    How can we use on-demand evapotranspiration datasets from Remote Sensing in Riyadh’s urban context? Can we get water consumption for the urban forest in Riyadh?

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  • The black death of environment: is design the problem?

    In 1843, a year after the tragic deaths in the Vienna hospital, American physician Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. published his essay, “The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever,” identifying poor hygiene practices among doctors and nurses as the source of the outbreak. Today’s concern is similar, but it is related to the contribution of urban and landscape…

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  • Upscaling Sentinel-2 Data with Deep Resolution 3.0: Benefits and Challenges

    Satellite imagery has become an indispensable tool for various applications, from environmental monitoring to urban planning and disaster management. Among the most popular satellite data sources is the Sentinel-2 mission, which provides high-resolution imagery at regular intervals and covers the entire planet. However, while Sentinel-2 imagery offers great spatial coverage and spectral richness, its spatial…

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