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July 26, 2025
International
World

What happened to UAE’s Iceberg Project? The ambitious plan to haul a colossal Antarctic iceberg to the coast of Fujairah | World News

The UAE Iceberg Project planned to tow a massive Antarctic iceberg 6,480 nautical miles to Fujairah but faced major challenges and remains unfulfilled/ Representative Image In a region where rain is rare and water more precious than oil, the United Arab Emirates once had its sights set on an audacious engineering marvel: towing a gigantic […]

July 22, 2025
International
World

Trump’s tariffs Antarctic volcano islands — It’s not just Penguins now

In a bizarre twist of international trade policy, it wasn’t just penguins that found themselves unexpectedly swept up in US tariffs — even the volcanoes of Australia’s most remote territory weren’t spared.Heard and McDonald Islands, two sub-Antarctic outposts located about 4,000 kilometers southwest of mainland Australia, were included in sweeping tariff measures introduced under President […]