The ecological restoration of the Jordan River “requires transboundary action,” Israel and Jordan agreed in a joint declaration signed in Sharm El Shiekh. By JERUSALEM POST STAFF NOVEMBER 17, 2022 Israel and Jordan will cooperate on the ecological rehabilitation, restoration and sustainable development of the Jordan River, it was announced Thursday at COP27 in Sharm […]

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Next year, the water will come. The pipes have been laid to Ata Yigit’s sprawling farm in Turkey’s southeast connecting it to a dam on the Euphrates River. A dream, soon to become a reality, he says. He’s already grown a small corn patch on some of the water. The golden stalks are tall and […]

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By Rayya Al Muheisen – Nov 21,2022 Representative image (Photo courtesy of unsplash.com/ HYPERLINK “https://unsplash.com/@karsten_wuerth” Karsten Würth) AMMAN — Beyond its environmental impact, renewable energy represents an effective way to achieve economic sustainability, economists suggest. Jordan had the highest share of renewable energy contribution in the Arab region in 2021, excluding hydropower, according to the […]

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JT – Nov 21,2022 An oil spill resulting from a Palauan merchant vessel polluted the water surrounding Aqaba’s coastline in August and the cleanup took 16 days (Petra photo) AMMAN — The “Floor of Sea” vessel has left Jordan’s territorial waters after the company that owns the ship committed to paying JD1 million following the […]

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Akram Al-Amour began recycling paper waste to try to reduce the emissions caused by burning it, and found an alternative to plastic that could contribute to improving economic conditions Reuters|11.15.22 Cheaper, stronger, available and environmental – for Gaza chicken farmers seeking to deliver eggs unbroken, there is everything to like about trays made from recycled […]

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Annual report says a total of 2.6 tons of food, of which about half could have been saved, was thrown away at an estimated cost of 2.19 billion USD; Israel is ranked last among OCED countries in number of policies implemented to tackle phenomenon 11.14.22 The total cost of food waste in Israel in 2021 […]

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For the first time, a delegation from Israel representing the nation’s climate-tech innovations and its advancements in the field attended the COP27. By ZACHY HENNESSEY Published: NOVEMBER 20, 2022 The United Nations annual Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt came to a close last week, concluding two weeks of dialogue, information sharing […]

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18/11/2022 As Egypt hosts world leaders at COP27 to discuss action over climate change, an oil terminal is dumping toxic wastewater on the country’s Red Sea coast, an investigation by BBC News Arabic has found. A rare form of coral, that offers hope for preserving ocean life as the planet warms, could be a casualty. […]

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Yosef Abramowitz imitated Moses’s smashing of the 10 biblical commandments in a demonstration against climate change. By SAM HALPERN Published: NOVEMBER 21, 2022 An Israeli climate activist smashed tablets representing the 10 climate change principles, mirroring Moses’s smashing of the biblical commandments, in a demonstration against climate crisis inaction atop Jebel Musa, the mountain thought […]

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Turkey on Tuesday unveiled at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh a revised plan for cutting its carbon emissions that was immediately criticized by analysts as insufficiently ambitious. “We have updated our nationally determined contribution (NDC),” Turkey’s environment minister, Murat Kurum, told the U.N. climate conference, referring to the national plans for reducing […]

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Host to these events, the Middle East and North Africa can and must demand more climate finance in conflict areas. Published On 11 Nov 2022 In a country long defined by its two rivers, the ancient marshlands of Iraq now bear harrowing testimony to the ravages of climate change. As temperatures have risen over successive years, rainfall […]

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From a distance, the endless landscape of solar panels stretching toward the horizon can easily be mistaken for crops nearing harvest. But here in the desert in southern Egypt, workers have been cultivating another precious commodity: electricity. After the sun strikes the photovoltaic solar panels, a thermal charge generates electricity that runs to four government-owned […]

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SHARM E-SHEIKH – The United Nations Climate Change Conference, better known as COP27, is an entire world within one city. People of every shape, size and color attend the event, taking buses to planes to taxis to shuttles to get into the 40,000-person affair. One hundred forty of those participants were world leaders, many of whom […]

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Ron Tomer, president of the Manufacturers Association, defends the inclusion of fossil fuel companies in the climate conference: ‘Gas companies are part of the solutions and Israel couldn’t exist without them’ Nov 8, 2022 Lee Yaron The Israeli delegation to the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place this week in Egypt includes executives of […]

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14/11/2022 A decade ago, Tunisian fisherman Ahmed Chelli’s nets bulged with fish and octopus that he sold at the local market in the Kerkennah islands. Today, he pulls up only “ISIS” — the name locals have given to the blue crabs that have invaded their fishing grounds in the fast-warming waters of the Mediterranean. “The […]

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The country is blazing forward with a plan to protect sections of its 118-mile coastline, a measure experts say is crucial to maintain biodiversity and protect ecosystems from human activity Nov 14, 2022 Between the cliffs and crags of Israel’s submerged prehistoric coastline, a Mediterranean ecosystem is surging back to life. Giant groupers flourish among […]

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Samantha Power, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), on Wednesday announced $8.5 million in funding for Lebanon that will support 22 new solar-powered water pumping projects in Lebanon. These projects, which will be completed over the next two years, will serve more than 150 towns and villages and benefit over […]

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full photo report: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2022/11/14/photos-middle-easts-fertile-crescent-dries-up-as-rains-fail Residents endure drought, decades of conflict and lower rainfall along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. As world leaders meet in Egypt for a climate summit to address issues that include water and food supplies, many across Iraq and the broader Middle East are facing a crisisthat could fuel more regional turmoil as […]

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As in the rest of North Africa, global warming is already showing its effects and severely affecting agriculture. By Aïda Delpuech and Arianna Poletti Published On 11 Nov 202211 Nov 2022 Dades Valley, Morocco – At the foot of the High Atlas mountain chain in southeastern Morocco, each village is named after the river that used to run through […]

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11/11/2022 Farmers are draining groundwater around Yemen’s capital and removing soil to cultivate the narcotic green leaf qat that dominates life in the country, threatening to exhaust precious resources in the climate-vulnerable nation. Chewing qat is a national pastime and demand is one of the few certainties in a nation torn apart by a seven-year […]

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