Wildfires erupt across Mediterranean as heatwave worsensWildfires – Al Jazeera 7 Jul 2025 Blazes break out in France, Greece, Turkiye and Syria, with several other nations on high alert amid warnings of scorching weather. Countries across the Mediterranean are battling fast-spreading wildfires and soaring temperatures as a heatwave sweeps through Southern Europe and parts of […]
Scorching summer heat deepens Gaza’s daily struggles – Arab News
Short Url. https://arab.news/z4m28 July 03, 2025 KHAN YOUNIS: For Rida Abu Hadayed, summer adds a new layer of misery to a daily struggle to survive in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. With temperatures exceeding 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit), daybreak begins with the cries of Hadayed’s seven children sweltering inside the displaced family’s cramped nylon […]
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Amman hosts regional conference on climate change, public health – Jordan Times
July 7, 2025. AMMAN — Representing HRH Prince El Hassan Bin Talal, Chairman of the University of Jordan’s Board of Trustees Adnan Badran on Monday inaugurated the International Conference on Climate Change and Health in the Arab Region: Advancing Regional Interdisciplinary Collaborations (CCHAR) in Amman. The four-day event brings together regional and international experts to […]
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Jordan, US sign $39 million water loss reduction project benefiting over 4m citizens – Jordan Times
July 6, 2025. AMMAN — The Ministry of Water and Irrigation on Sunday signed new project agreements as part of the ongoing Water Loss Reduction Programme, in partnership with the US government, aiming to serve around 4 million people in northern and central Jordan. The agreements, valued at $39 million, mark the fourth phase of […]
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FAO holds consultative sessions in Madaba, Karak to develop climate adaptation plan – Jordan Times
July 2, 2025 AMMAN — The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), in cooperation with the Sustainable Scientific Vision for Engineering and Environment Company, on Tuesday conducted two consultative sessions with local associations in Madaba and Karak governorates. These sessions are part of the project titled “Building Resilience to Cope with Climate […]
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With sanctions lifted, Syria looks to solar power as more than a patchwork fix to its energy crisis – Arab News
July 07, 2025 Short Url https://arab.news/56983 DAMASCUS: Abdulrazak Al-Jenan swept the dust off his solar panel on his apartment roof overlooking Damascus. Syria’s largest city was mostly pitch-black, the few speckles of light coming from the other households able to afford solar panels, batteries, or private generators. Al-Jenan went thousands of dollars in debt to […]
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How a tax opposed by Shas sparked climate backlash in the ultra-Orthodox community – Jerusalem Post
A newly published Hebrew University of Jerusalem study found that the well-meaning environmental tax turned into a cultural flashpoint. JULY 6, 2025 ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH DISPOSABLE PLASTIC tableware are on display at the Osher Ad Supermarket branch in Givat Shaul, Jerusalem.(photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90) The Health Ministry in Jerusalem – run by the ultra-Orthodox party Shas – persuaded the […]
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Oman moves to third phase of plastic bag ban, Environment Authority warns of grave marine impact – Gulf News
Latest phase extends to food stores, fruit and vegetable shops, bakeries, gift stores July 01, 2025. Khitam Al Amir, Chief News Editor Dubai: As Oman has rolled out the third phase of its plastic bag ban on Tuesday, July 1, the country’s Environment Authority is intensifying its public awareness campaign, warning of the profound and lasting […]
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Invisible ‘sky highway’: 700 million migratory insects navigate across Israel each year – Jerusalem Post
“We’ve only just begun to understand the scale and complexity of insect migration,” said Dr. Werber. “It’s a natural wonder that connects continents—and it’s happening right over our heads.” JUNE 30, 2025. ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF In a groundbreaking new study, researchers at the University of Haifa have revealed that more than 700 million migratory insects traverse the […]
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UAE turtle population rises, but plastic threat remains – The National
June 30, 202 Rachel Kelley The UAE’s turtle population has steadily increased in recent years, with the Environment Agency in Abu Dhabi reporting a 30 per cent increase in numbers compared with a decade ago. But ingesting plastic remains a key issue, with reports this year that discarded plastic bags have caused some turtles to lose their flippers. While plastic pollution […]
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A Spring in the West Bank Dries Up: Palestinians Pay the Price, Jewish Settlers Don’t – Haaretz
The spring, which usually dries up once a decade during the month of July, has already dried up in early May. This forces Palestinian herding communities to buy water, leaving them susceptible to IDF blockades and increasing harassment from Jewish settlers Zafrir Rinat Jun 2, 2025 The water crisis in the Jordan Valley has worsened […]
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How conflict, climate shocks and collapsing aid budgets are pushing millions to the brink of starvation – Arab News
Short Url. https://arab.news/va6cn ’09 June 2025 JUMANA KHAMIS DUBAI: There is more than enough food in the world to feed the entire global population, yet 733 million people still go hungry, including 38 million children under five years of age, according to the latest aid agency data. Global hunger has reached an unprecedented tipping point, […]
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Greenpeace warns of potential environmental disaster as oil tankers collide near Strait of Hormuz – AP
By GABE LEVIN19 June 2025 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A collision between two oil tankersjust east of the world’s most critical oil choke point, the Strait of Hormuz, could bring about a potential environmental disaster, Greenpeace said on Thursday. The two giant tankers, ADALYNN and Front Eagle, crashed Tuesday in the Gulf of Oman and caught fire before […]
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Israel’s forests burn while gov’t continues to underfund Fire and Rescue Authority – Jerusalem Post
Our forests are burning, yet the government is stoking the conflagration by cutting budgets. ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH JUNE 21, 2025 Israel boasts about its forests, encouraging people to visit nature areas and using them to promote donations from abroad to the Jewish National Fund – Keren Kayemet L’Yisrael (JNF-KKL) to plant trees. But the government does not act […]
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Israeli Minister Slashes Funding to Environmental Groups Without Approval: ‘Illegal, Unfair, Illogical’ – Haaretz
With some activists claiming that Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman was exacting political revenge on organizations that had criticized her policies, a Knesset committee learned she did not have the authority to cut funding Zafrir Rinat. Jun 4, 2025 The Environmental Protection Ministry’s decision last week to slash all of funding to environmental organizations in […]
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How targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities could impact the environment – Environment and Development (ABC)
ByJulia Jacobo. June 21, 2025, The destruction of uranium enrichment sites that support Iran’s nuclear program would not likely have severe environmental consequences, several nuclear experts told ABC News. full report https://abcnews.go.com/International/targeting-irans-nuclear-facilities-impact-environment/story?id=122969287
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Morocco invests in desalination, waterways to mitigate drought – Environment and Development (Reuters)
By Ahmed Eljechtimi. June 13, 2025 RABAT, June 13 (Reuters) – Morocco is accelerating investments in desalination plants, water transfer projects and new dams to mitigate prolonged drought and meet rising demand from agriculture and cities, water minister Nizar Baraka said. Years of drought have strained water resources, shrunk the national cattle herd and contributed to food price […]
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Iraq probes fish die-off in marshes – Al Jazeera
Drought, climate change, poison, and low river flow among the possible reasons for the mass deaths. Published On 2 Jun 20252 more photos at https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/6/2/iraq-probes-fish-die-off-in-marshes Iraqi authorities have opened an investigation into a mass die-off of fish in the country’s central and southern marshlands, the latest in a series of such incidents in recent years. […]
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Saudi Arabia Cleantech Webinar on June 23 – MESIA
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