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Environment

Algeria

A garbage collector leads donkeys in the old part of Algiers, known as the Kasbah, last May. (AFP)

Donkeys help keep Algiers Kasbah clean

Jordan

A young boy uses the water app, which is based on the popular “Snakes and Ladders” game in Amman. (Roufan Nahhas)

Water conservation is no game in Jordan, or maybe it is

Oman

Scientists test space suits and a geo-radar for use in a future Mars mission in Oman's Dhofar desert, on February 7. (AFP)

Sights set on Mars, with feet in Oman desert

Green schools

A view of the Swiss International Scientific School in Dubai. (SISD)

Movement to promote ‘Green schools’ in the UAE takes off

Environment

Visitors take a look at the ECO Bus manufactured by Masdar during the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week in Abu Dhabi, on January 17. (Reuters)

Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week: Gulf region eyes future in green economy

Green schools

A view of the Swiss International Scientific School in Dubai. (SISD)

Movement to promote ‘Green schools’ in the UAE takes off

MENA

A Yemeni girl drinks water collected from a well in an impoverished village on the outskirts of the port city of Hodeidah. (AFP)

The MENA region is literally heating up

Jordan

A stretch of the King Abdullah Canal, the largest irrigation system near the town of Northern Shouneh in Jordan. (AP)

Jordan water crisis worsens as Mideast tensions slow action

Jordan’s water shortage made worse by refugee crisis