February 6, 2025 At the end of January, 60 Palestinian, Israeli, and Jordanian water, energy, food security, and environment (WEFE) experts and professionals convened in Athens, Greece, for a 3-day conference hosted by the Oxford Martin School of Oxford University. and organized by Damour for Community Development and the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies’ Center for Applied Environmental Diplomacy. The […]

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By Fadwa HodaliFares AkramJason KaoJennah HaqueJeremy C. F. LinEquality Photography by Ahmad SalemEquality August 15, 2024 Moving through the Gaza Strip to avoid Israeli air strikes, Rana Abu Nassira often used Google Earth to look at the home she had been forced to abandon. Unaware that the geobrowser’s imagery does not update in real time, the 37-year-old […]

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by Naharnet Newsdesk 16 November 2024, As winter descends on Gaza’s tent cities, emergency housing made from mushrooms could keep out the cold — just one of several sustainable, home-grown innovations put forward by Arab designers at an expo in Dubai. Lightweight, warm and versatile, mushroom-based structures are an appealing alternative to the flimsy shelters now housing […]

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Israel is grappling with its second-driest winter in a century, with negligible increases in water levels in key areas. Despite expected rainfall, Israel’s Water Authority warns it won’t offset the drought Zafrir Rinat. Nir Hasson. Feb 2, 2025 Israel’s winter of 2024 has been the country’s driest of the past century, matched only by the […]

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Jessica Barnes  Published online: 01 Aug 2024 ABSTRACT Crisis is a recurrent motif in discussions of the environment in the Middle East. Concerns about water scarcity, food insecurity, climate disasters, and resource degradation play into common associations of the region with conflict, malfunction, and despair. Yet this single story obscures as much as it illuminates. […]

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By JT – Jan 31,2025 AMMAN — Tamam Foods of Jordan, best known for their organic high-quality chicken products, assigned Next Renewable Energy Co., also known as Millennium Energy Industries (MEI) to design and construct an innovative combined Solar Thermal & Heat Pump heating solution which will completely eliminatedependence on fossil fuels (diesel) for its main industrial Chicken processing facilities […]

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By JT – Feb 10,2025 AMMAN — Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Saleh Kharabsheh, who is also chair of the board of directors of the Jordan Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Fund (JREEEF), on Monday signed 12 agreements with several charitable and cooperative associations. The agreements designate these associations as accredited financial windows for a programme […]

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2025-02-08 11:50Share Font Shafaq News / Iraq’s electricity sector is facing critical challenges that extend beyond power shortages, raising serious environmental and health concerns. The Civil Defense Directorate has reported alarming emissions from Al-Doura Thermal Power Plant in Baghdad, while a parliamentary committee has warned that Al-Hartha Thermal Power Plant poses a direct threat to public […]

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January 30, 2025. Short Url. https://arab.news/ckg7p RIYADH: New investment opportunities have been announced by the National Center for Vegetation Cover Development and Combating Desertification. These focus on recycling reclaimed firewood from logging violations and managing invasive plant species by converting them into alternative economic products, said a press statement released on Thursday. The opportunities focus […]

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By Adam Taylor and Adrián Blanco Ramos February 6, 2025  note: partial section of a longer report About 90 percent of Gaza’s population was displaced during the war, crowding into a section of land along the coast under orders from the Israeli military. In the weeks since a ceasefire was reached between Israel and Hamas, hundreds of thousands of […]

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  An EOD team deals with a Russian-made 220mm Uragan thermobaric_rocket rocket found at a site in Luf village, Saraqib district of Idlib governorate in Syria. (The HALO Trust photo) Short Url. https://arab.news/2t48r ANAN TELLO February 02, 2025 LONDON: The sudden fall of Bashar Assad’s regime in early December prompted around 200,000 Syrians to return […]

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BEIRUT – Nealy a third of Lebanon’s population is facing acute food insecurity following the escalation of conflict in late 2024 and the impact of hostilities on agriculture and the economy mean recovery is likely to be slow, according to a new food security assessment. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis on Lebanon, developed by […]

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Air pollution caused 5,510 premature deaths in Israel in 2023, double previous estimates, highlighting the severe health and economic toll; Geographic factors and under-regulation exacerbate the crisis, requiring urgent policy action to reduce pollution and protect public health Ilana Curiel. January 30, 2025 In 2023, air pollution claimed 5,510 premature lives in Israel, a staggering […]

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By  Pesach Benson / TPS January 17, 2025 An Israeli court approved a plea deal on Thursday requiring the Europe Asia Pipeline Company (EAPC) to pay 1.5 million shekels ($415,000) in fines for its role in the country’s worst-ever oil spill. A burst pipe released five million liters of crude oil into the Evrona Nature […]

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Suspected mass poisoning in southern Israel leaves 335 birds dead – Jerusalem Post Hundreds of birds in the same family as the falcon were found dead on Sunday in the western Negev, leading investigators to believe they drank from poisoned water. By JERUSALEM POST STAFFFEBRUARY 2, 2025 Hundreds of dead black hawks were found in the […]

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January 24, 2025 By Abdullah Rasheed, Abu Dhabi Editor Abu Dhabi: The Environment Agency — Abu Dhabi (EAD) has temporarily halted operations at two industrial facilities and imposed a financial penalty on one of them for repeated violations of environmental regulations.  The violations, including failure to meet public health and environmental safety standards, prompted the […]

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  The scientists looked at the potential for seasonal hydro storage of desalinated water. (SPA) Short Url https://arab.news/bt3yw ARAB NEWS. February 04, 2025 RIYADH: Scientists at a top Saudi Arabia university have identified several locations across the Kingdom that would be ideal for the storage of solar and wind energy, which would ultimately benefit water […]

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Volume 211, April 2025, 115361 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2025.115361 Highlights Abstract In line with the broader ambitions of Vision 2030, Saudi Arabia aims to achieve greenhouse gas net zero emissions by 2060. At the heart of this ambition is decarbonizing the power generation sector with a commitment to 50 % of power generation capacity from renewables by 2030. Despite the […]

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The ecstatic joy felt by Gazans as they marched back to the northern Strip was quickly replaced by the realization of the scale of destruction, which will take many years to rebuild. Now, some of them are even contemplating returning south Sheren Falah Saab.F eb 3, 2025 It has been two weeks since the start […]

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