The cities of Mumbai, New York and Tokyo will slowly vanish underwater if the West Antarctica ice sheet melts due to global warming, Dr Elisabeth Ness, Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, warned at a meeting on “Climate Change –  Reshaping our World” organised by the Emirates Environmental Group (EEG).

The UAE’s first solar power tracking device has been installed at the Dubai Knowledge Village by Energy and Environment Park (Enpark), a comprehensive eco-friendly community and a member of Tecom Investments, in partnership with Switchpower, a leading renewable energy company in Sweden.

Emirates Environmental Techno-logy (EET) Company has completed about 75 per cent of the work on the world’s largest landfill remediation site in Sharjah with the remaining 25 per cent due for completion by the end of next year.