Environment and Climate in the Middle East

Recent Posts

• For first time, Israel’s Water Authority to pump Kinneret water into Jordan River – Haaretz / Jerusalem Post
• ‘Climate change may reduce water availability, damage agriculture in Jordan’ – Jordan Times
• Settlers, Palestinians together against waste dump – Jerusalem Post
• The Promised City – Al Jazeera
• Arab and ultra-Orthodox towns to get less space for parks under new guidelines – Haaretz
• Less than 5% of Jordan’s solid waste is recycled — experts – Jordan Times
• Environment Ministry struggles to manage resources – Daily Star
• Gas presence found in new Karish reservoir – Jerusalem Post
• Lebanon has 30 trillion cubic feet of offshore gas – Al Arabiya
• Morocco launches solar mega-project near desert city – Al Arabiya
• Greenhouse gases hit threshold unseen in 3m. years – Jerusalem Post (Bloomberg)
• Water Authority: ‘Severe drought’ from 2015-2035 – Jerusalem Post
• Peretz: Peres must stop greenhouse program cuts – Jerusalem Post
• Environmentalists decry Israeli treasury’s plan to freeze greenhouse-gas mitigation plan – Haaretz
• Knesset panel: Reduce water prices in new budget – Jerusalem Post
• Israeli green group faces closure due to funding woes – Haaretz
• Land of King David gets a new lease on life – Haaretz
• Israeli government plan aims to replace green spaces with high-density housing = Haaretz
• ‘Lands Authority must protect coastal environment’ – Jerusalem Post
• Weapons plant still polluting Tel Aviv soil 30 years after closure – Haaretz
• Egypt Independent, leader in environmental news, banned
• Cairo Climate Talks: Climate change hits nation’s poor the hardest – Egypt Independent
• Air pollution indoors and outdoors high, threaten health and environment – Egypt Independent
• Irrigation Ministry: Prevent rice cultivation in deserts – Egypt Independent
• Amid political instability, farmers’ plight goes from bad to worse – Egypt Independent
• Farmers say Egypt’s wheat crop hopes are ‘a dream’ – Egypt Independent
• Climate change forcing Egypt to change agriculture practices – Egypt Independent
• OpenOil archive to promote oil and gas industry transparency – Egypt Independent
• Ministry: Hot weather, giant sponges cleaned up Lake Nasser diesel spill – Egypt Independent
• When sharks are prey – Egypt Independent
• On Egypt’s unique assortment of birds, mammals, reptiles and fish – Egypt Independent
• Final Issue: In Egypt, environmental journalists are endangered species – Egypt Independent
• Beware deep-water oil drilling: experts – Daily Star
• 60 MKs demand gas export issue come to Knesset – Jerusalem Post
• ‘Summer electricity reserve will be critically low’ – Jerusalem Post