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‘Lands Authority must protect coastal environment’ – Jerusalem Post

By SHARON UDASIN 05/08/2013 The State Comptroller Report slams the Israel Lands Authority’s lack of policy implemented to protect the coast. The Israel Lands Authority must create a more comprehensive vision for protecting the nation’s remaining open beaches and reexamine outdated construction plans that threaten to harm the coastal environment, the State Comptroller’s Report indicated. […]

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Weapons plant still polluting Tel Aviv soil 30 years after closure – Haaretz

The site in question is located at the end of the Arvei Nahal Street in Tel Aviv and was home to an IMI factory from 1948 until 1980. By Zafrir Rinat | May.07, 2013 Recent groundwater and soil tests carried out in the Tel Aviv area by Israel’s Water Authority prove that more than 30 […]

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Egypt Independent, leader in environmental news, banned

The previous postings, April 29, 2013, included as the top story the report from “Egypt Independent”: “Final Issue: In Egypt, environmental journalists are endangered species”. “Egypt Independent” has been an outstanding source of environmental news. As the story in the previous posting relates, the newspaper made an editorial decision that environmental issues were under-reported and […]

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Cairo Climate Talks: Climate change hits nation’s poor the hardest – Egypt Independent

18/04/2013 Steven Viney Cairo Climate Talks held its 15th panel discussion on Wednesday night, focusing on how Egypt should address the consequences of climate change, particularly in regards to poor urban populations and those living in informal housing. The inconvenient truth is that approximately 60 percent of Egyptians live in informal and unregistered housing without […]

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Air pollution indoors and outdoors high, threaten health and environment – Egypt Independent

21/04/2013 Rana Khaled The average Cairene inhales more than 20 times the acceptable level of air pollution every day, according to the World Health Organization. That means that every Cairo resident’s daily air pollution intake is akin to smoking a pack of cigarettes. Industrial plants — especially factories that burn mazut, a heavy, low-quality fuel […]

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Irrigation Ministry: Prevent rice cultivation in deserts – Egypt Independent

24/04/2013 MENA Water Resources and Irrigation Minister Mohamed Bahaa Eddin has called for the prohibition of rice cultivation in desert lands, which is already forbidden by law, so as to reduce overdraft of water from aquifers. “The groundwater went down 2.5 meters,” he warned in a statement Wednesday. “Future generations may not find water.” His […]

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Amid political instability, farmers’ plight goes from bad to worse – Egypt Independent

07/04/2013 Steven Viney As government politics continues to remain in a state of turbulent and violent uncertainty and instability — clashes abound, parliamentary election dates are announced and soon canceled, farmer loan forgiveness is promised with no follow-through — the lives of Egypt’s farmers are going from bad to worse. When, in 2009, the World […]

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Farmers say Egypt’s wheat crop hopes are ‘a dream’ – Egypt Independent

16/04/2013 Reuters Egypt’s Islamist-led government must be dreaming if it expects a bumper wheat harvest over the next six weeks that will save the country billions of dollars in imports, says farmer Farid Boshra Abdel Malek. “How can they expect any increase in wheat production when they are not providing us with water, fuel for […]

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Climate change forcing Egypt to change agriculture practices – Egypt Independent

12/04/2013 Al-Masry Al-Youm Agriculture Minister Salah Abdel Momen commissioned the Agricultural Research Center to review their recommendations for harvesting wheat, corn, cotton and rice following the release of new information regarding the impact of climate change on crop cycles. “The current year witnessed climate changes that ordinary citizens noticed, including underground fluctuations and sharp rises […]

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OpenOil archive to promote oil and gas industry transparency – Egypt Independent

14/04/2013 Steven Viney Researching the oil and gas industry and the details of its practices in Egypt can be an extremely exhausting task. Reasons for this range from institutional corruption to scattered information that is difficult to locate and unclear responsibilities among ministries and personnel, to name but a few. Even within a single governing […]

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Ministry: Hot weather, giant sponges cleaned up Lake Nasser diesel spill – Egypt Independent

11/04/2013 Al-Masry Al-Youm Ninety percent of the diesel that spilled into Lake Nasser on Sunday has already evaporated due to high temperatures in Aswan, the Environment Ministry claimed on Thursday. The rest of the spill was mopped up by the Armed Forces with huge sponges, the ministry alleged. Preliminary investigations suggested that the spillage came […]

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When sharks are prey – Egypt Independent

12/04/2013 Rana Khaled News about the slaughtering of three whale sharks in Suez in the past weeks triggered a wave of anger among marine biologists and environmental organizations across Egypt. The Hurghada Environmental Protection and Conservation Association (HEPCA) condemned the recurring slaughter of this peaceful and endangered species, describing it as a “serious environmental crime.” […]

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On Egypt’s unique assortment of birds, mammals, reptiles and fish – Egypt Independent

22/04/2013 Louise Sarant To illustrate and provide scientific information about Egypt’s rich biodiversity and animals, the American University in Cairo Press recently published a series of nature foldouts. The foldouts, titled “Egypt’s Flora and Fauna,” “Birds of the Nile Valley,” “Ancient Egypt’s Wildlife” and “Egypt’s Prehistoric Fauna,” are written and illustrated by California-based writer and […]

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Final Issue: In Egypt, environmental journalists are endangered species – Egypt Independent

Thu, 25/04/2013 Steven Viney Louise Sarant This piece was written for Egypt Independent’s final weekly print edition, which was banned from going to press. Two months before word about Egypt Independent’s potential closure first surfaced, Noor Noor, executive coordinator of the NGO Nature Conservation Egypt, discussed the loss at stake. “Egypt Independent is one of […]

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Beware deep-water oil drilling: experts – Daily Star

April 27, 2013 By Samya Kullab BEIRUT: From the shore, the site of Lebanon’s potential maritime oil and gas reserve appears a vast expanse of blue sea. But well below the surface water, a depth impenetrable even by the sun’s rays, lie 10 state-demarcated exploration blocks still to be auctioned off to oil companies, in […]

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60 MKs demand gas export issue come to Knesset – Jerusalem Post

By SHARON UDASIN 04/24/2013 Letter to Netanyahu says decision whether or not to export Israel’s natural gas is a weighty one that demands public discussion. TAt an emergency session of the Knesset’s Social-Environment Lobby on Wednesday, some 60 MKs signed a letter demanding that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu bring the issue of determining gas export […]

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‘Summer electricity reserve will be critically low’ – Jerusalem Post

By SHARON UDASIN 04/25/2013 CEO of Electric Corp. says production potential of existing infrastructure is insufficient to create ample reserve. Despite the influx of natural gas from the Tamar reservoir, the country is still likely to face an alarmingly low electricity reserve this summer, similar to that of last year, Israel Electric Corporation CEO and […]

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Israeli firm named Bloomberg New Energy Pioneer – Jerusalem Post

By SHARON UDASIN 04/25/2013 Israeli “smart water” network and software management firm Whitewater awarded at ceremony in New York. The Israeli “smart water” network and software management firm Whitewater was named a 2013 Bloomberg New Energy Pioneer at a ceremony in New York earlier this week. Whitewater received the award at the sixth annual Bloomberg […]

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Gazans turn wood into charcoal – YNET

Resident of Hamas-ruled territory first started producing charcoal using trees IDF cut down to deprive terrorists of cover when they fire rockets Associated Press Published: 04.27.13 In adapting to years of border blockades and shortages, Palestinians in Gaza have become experts at recycling and making new out of old. That includes turning scrap wood into […]

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Air pollution levels shoot up during holiday – Jerusalem Post

By SHARON UDASIN 04/29/2013 Bonfires, meteorological conditions during Lag Ba’omer stimulate hike up air pollution 17 times normal levels. By sunrise on Lag Ba’omer Sunday, air pollution levels had risen up to 17 times their normal values across the country, the Environmental Protection Ministry reported. As Israeli revelers created bonfires across the country beginning Saturday […]

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