{
  "id": 7502413,
  "title": "Building Sustainability: The board that never felled a tree",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/15/building-sustainability-the-board-that-never-felled-a-tree",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-15T06:38:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Gulf News",
    "slug": "gulf-news",
    "url": "https://gulfnews.com/gn-focus/company-news/building-sustainability-the-board-that-never-felled-a-tree-1.500674956"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "In a factory in the UAE, pruned palm fronds that would once have been burned or buried are being transformed into something the construction industry has never seen before: a structural building material made entirely without cutting down a single tree. Every year, millions of fronds are pruned across the UAE to keep the country's 40 million palm trees healthy. Traditionally, the cuttings were…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}