Environment and Climate in the Middle East

Recent Posts

• Arson at Dead Sea Nature Reserve – Haaretz / YNET
• USAID Conflict Management and Mitigation Program Cancelled – YNET
• Iran and Turkey Divert Iraq’s River Waters, Leaving Iraq on the Brink of Catastrophe – Jerusalem Center for Public Affiars
• Environmental Peacebuilding Newsletter September 2018
• Publication of Report on the Status of the Hebron-Besor-Wadi Gaza Basin – Ecopeace
• Red Sea’s coral reefs are in serious trouble: Environmental NGO – Egypt Independent
• Jumblat Lashes Out at EDL, Environment Ministry Officials – Naharnet
• Report: Lebanon’s Oil Wealth Under Israeli Threats – Naharnet
• Israel’s SodaStream drowns Statue of Liberty replica in plastic to protest waste – Haaretz
• Israel’s groundwater levels dropping to dangerous lows – Haaretz
• With ongoing drought, Israel Water Authority to bring water from Lower Galilee to Lake Kinneret – Haaretz
• Steinitz: Replenishment of Kinneret a priority – YNET
• Hariri, Hajj Hassan Agree on Emergency Authority to Tackle Polluted Litani River – Naharnet
• Zavitan stream reopened following leptospirosis scare – YNET
• Environment minister: If elected mayor, I won’t preserve Jerusalem’s green area – Haaretz
• Renewable energy takes a turn in Jerash village – Jordan Times
• Over 12,000 electricity thefts during January-August period’ – Jordan Times
• First batch of Chinese electric buses to reach Egypt ‘mid-September’ – Egypt Independent
• Thousands protest in Tel Aviv to demand removal of offshore gas rig – Haaretz
• Irbid residents ‘infuriated’ by expropriation of land for Israeli pipeline – Jordan Times
• Hebrew Dystopias: From National Catastrophes to Ecological Disasters – Israel Studies Review
• Officials dip their feet in northern streams to show they’re safe – YNET
• Israeli parks authority lacks funding to curb leptospirosis – Haaretz
• Number of leptospirosis patients in Israel rises to 42 – YNET
• Health Ministry finds high levels of pollution in 3 Golan streams – YNET
• Mafraq manure treatment factory tackles animal waste issue – Jordan Times
• Zaatari solar power project ‘largest in a refugee camp globally – Jordan Times
• Renewable energy takes a turn in Jerash village – Jordan Times
• Breeding bird species in ‘notable decline’ in Ajloun Forest Reserve – Jordan Times
• Cross-border science in the Middle East – Nature, Ecology and Evolution, a specialty journal of Nature
• EcoPeace Workshop on Middle East Water Security and Environmental Peacebuilding
• Hebrew University’s disgrace and the occupation – Haaretz
• 5-year drought raises questions over Israel’s water strategy – YNET
• Gaza Sea Barrier Will Harm One of the Most Beautiful Beaches in Israel – Haaretz
• Solar tree structure brings renewable energy topic to Jordan University – Jordan Times