By Mohammed Zaatari Tuesday, August 31, 2010 SIDON: Sidon’s fishermen are outraged by the death of huge quantities of fish in their harbor, with some attributing the incident and its impact on their livelihoods to the high levels of sewage pouring into the area. Sidon’s municipality has been gradually closing up sewage outlets which poured […]

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More than 100 major industrial firms will participate in the pollution curbing program by the end of 2012, at which point they will be subject to OECD requirements. By Ora Coren More than 100 major industrial firms will participate in the pollution curbing program by the end of 2012, at which point they will be […]

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WASHINGTON, August 26, 2010 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved the following project: IDA Grant: US$7 million Project ID: P117446 Project Description: The proposed additional financing will support the original objectives of the project, which are a) to mitigate the immediate and gathering health and environmental safety threats to the communities […]

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HEBRON (Ma’an) — Several landfills in Hebron were shut down this week, officials said Saturday, as part of an ongoing project to improve waste management in the southern West Bank. The closures were part of a plan by the council for waste management in the Hebron and Bethlehem districts, to shut down a total of […]

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By GIL ZOHAR 08/27/2010 17:02 A Christian holy place and a unique historic site preserving millennia-old agricultural terraces. Ein Kerem activists scored a victory on August 18 when Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Naomi Tsur issued a temporary cease work order freezing the Tourism Ministry’s redevelopment of the area facing Mary’s Spring – both a Christian holy […]

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There’s something impressive about the sight of trees clinging to a mound amid an empty expanse, but the trees themselves are dying. By Zafrir Rinat A few weeks ago Sivan Shiknagy was on her way to visit family near Eilat. Around Nahal Shehoret, not far from Eilat, she noticed some acacia trees clinging to a […]

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Lawyer and photographer Dani Nissim is fighting to preserve trees he believes are vital to the Tel Aviv cityscape. By Noah Kosharek “Hi there – here’s a picture of trees uprooted on Tumarkin Street.” That is one of numerous posts Web surfers taking virtual tours of Tel Aviv on Google Earth will find. Alongside Bauhaus […]

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In Gaza, it’s not easy being green. Hamas, seeking to portray Gaza as undeveloped, stifles green projects. By Theodore May GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — In the small central Gaza town of Deir el Belah, one family has made a cottage industry out of green innovation. “There was a period in Gaza when there was […]

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By EHUD ZION WALDOKS Sticking to its decade-long average, the Dead Sea dropped a meter this year. It ended up at 423.19 meters below sea level. In perhaps the first slightly positive hydrological summary in the last five years, the Water Authority said Monday that mostly average rainfall fell during the 2009-10 winter. According to […]

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By:Hassan Harajli CEDRO stands for ‘Community Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Demonstration project for the Recovery of Lebanon’. It stands for cedar tree in the Spanish language given that the Spanish government donated 9.73 million USD via the Lebanon Recovery Fund (LRF) to establish the CEDRO project in 2007 in the aftermath of the 2006 […]

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By Cnaan Liphshiz English-speaking immigrants living in the Beit Shemesh area who are fighting to prevent a regional oil drilling project this week petitioned the High Court of Justice to issue a restraining order for the controversial venture, claiming it is being carried out without proper review. The petition was filed by Adam Teva V’Din, […]

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By KARIN KLOOSTERMAN/ISRAEL 21C Ben-Gurion University is passionate about reducing its ecological footprint. It may not be the first, or the only, university campus in Israel to receive the “Green Campus” label from the Ministry of Environmental Protection, but Ben-Gurion University (BGU) in the country’s Negev desert can be singled out for having the most […]

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Each new generation of recruits raises the bar higher, reminding their commanders to recycle and save energy, asking tough questions that are echoed up the ranks. By Jon Liberzon When I tell people what I do in the military, the reply is invariably nonplussed: “I had no idea such a thing existed.” This would be […]

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By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – Experts and water officials will convene in the Kingdom in November to discuss the future of the Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Conveyance Study Programme (Red-Dead project), a government official said on Monday. According to Jordan Valley Authority Secretary General Saad Abu Hamour, in the ninth meeting of the Red-Dead project, […]

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HEBRON (Ma’an) — Residents in Hebron are threatening to hold sit-ins in front of the city’s water wells and outside the Prime Minister’s office in Ramallah if the water situation does not improve. Locals demanded that Prime Minister Salam Fayyad dismisses Shaddad Al-Attili, head of the Palestinian Water Authority, for failing to commit to pledges […]

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By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – Due to the “unprecedented water shortage” that has left scores of households parched for nearly a month, the Ministry of Water and Irrigation on Tuesday launched a call centre to receive water-related complaints. People from across the Kingdom can now dial the customer service call centre’s toll free number 080022142 […]

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By Hana Namrouqa AMMAN – Residents of Jerash Governorate, where the water per capita share is the lowest in the Kingdom, are complaining of repeated water cuts which have left some without water during the hottest month of the year. Jerash residents have threatened to hold protests over continued water shortages in the region, an […]

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By Laila Azzeh AMMAN – Despite efforts in Jordan to achieve the goals of the National Population Strategy, the total fertility rate (TFR) dropped by only 0.1 per cent during the last five years, according to a recently released study. The population has grown by 2.5 per cent annually in the last decade, and is […]

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Israel should not get carried away on selling gas, warns Professor Brenda Shaffer. By Avi Bar-Eli Professor warns Israel should not get carried away on selling gas Dr. Brenda Shaffer, director of the energy policy management program at the University of Haifa, hasn’t been able to believe what she’s been seeing from her office on […]

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(Video) Isaac Berzin enlightens us on renewable energy and culturing fuels in the desert in his TEDx lecture, ‘Fill it up, with seaweed’ http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3921416,00.html

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