Environment and Climate in the Middle East

Recent Posts

• Environmental Peacebuilding Newsletter, January 2019
• New threat from Gaza: Landfills and sewage build up along Israeli border – YNET
• Promoting Biosaline Argriculture – Jordan Times
• Ghabawi landfill expected to generate 5MWh starting February – Jordan Times
• Forestation plan could change Israeli ecosystems, drive out endangered species – Haaretz
• Jordan has invested JD40m in desalination projects over past 3 years’ – Jordan Times
• Stakeholders hail temporary EV customs exemption, demand more – Jordan Times
• Luxor launches campaign to plant 1 million trees – Egypt Independent
• Israeli Settlers Who Build in West Bank Nature Reserves Now Facing Trial – Haaretz
• Visit Eilat’s Reef Before It’s Too Late: NYT’s Place to Go in 2019 Is Facing Destruction – Haaretz
• More fires near Gaza border could cause irreversible damage, Israel’s Parks Authority warns – Haaretz
• Four years after oil spill, southern Israeli nature reserve remains in peril – Haaretz
• Israel Passes Law Allowing Civil Suits for Environmental Damage – Haaretz
• TAU research shows shocking amount of microplastic in maritime organisms – Jerusalem Post
• Half of industrial city factories pollute air: Environment Ministry – Egypt Independent
• Environmental NGO purchases land with endangered wildlife – Jerusalem Post
• New Report: Climate Change, Water Security, and National Security for Jordan, Palestine, and Israel – Ecopeace
• Prince Hassan attends seminar on water challenges in Jordan – Jordan Times
• Preparatory meetings for environment conference kick off at Dead Sea – Jordan Times
• Saving the Dead Sea (editorial) – Jordan Times
• Solar power converted into electricity will be distributed soon – Jerusalem Post
• Renewable sources contribute ‘8% of 2018 energy mix’ – Jordan Times
• Overconsumption or climate change? Experts debate cause of drop in Sea of Galilee levels – Haaretz
• Water sent to Israel’s north in bid to save drying Upper Galilee stream – Haaretz
• Egypt, EBRD sign agreement to depollute Kitchener Drain – Egpyt Independent
• Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Friendly words but no change on the ground – Al Ahram
• US, Saudi Arabia Back-of-the-Pack on Curbing Climate Change – Naharnet
• Environmental Peacebuilding Newsletter December 2018
• Egypt’s Fertile Nile Delta Threatened by Climate Change – Naharnet
• New pipeline will bring desalinated water to Israel’s only freshwater lake – Haaretz
• Advancing science one gust at a time: Israel’s largest wind tunnel – Jerusalem Post
• Rate of asthma cases in Haifa’s children more than double Israeli average – Haaretz
• Haifa residents can die of pollution, as long as there’s no Arab deputy mayor (editorial) – Haaretz
• “Verynile” initiative to clean Nile water launched: Irrigation Ministry – Egypt Independent
• Authorities track down suspects in illegal well drilling near Um Al Jimal site – Naharnet