By SHARON UDASIN 07/02/2012 00:47 Eitan Parness to receive Israel’s cleantech’s “man of the year” award for efforts in advancing industry. Renewable energy guru Eitan Parness will receive the “man of the year” award for his efforts in advancing Israel’s cleantech industry, at the annual CleanTech Exhibition in Tel Aviv later this week. Parness, founder […]

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June 30, 2012 01:32 AM The Daily Star BEIRUT: The average rate of power cuts outside the capital stood at over 12 hours a day in June, according to the Energy Ministry. In a statement issued Friday, the ministry said that while Beirut residents experienced an average of three hours a day of power cuts, […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 07/02/2012 01:38 Once every few months, IEC has been cutting electricity it supplies to Yesud Hama’ala to fix electrical system problems. Residents of Yesud Hama’ala, a moshav north of Lake Kinneret (the Sea of Galilee), fear the repercussions of an eight-hour, community-wide cessation of power scheduled to occur on Monday during peak […]

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by Hana Namrouqa | Jun 28, 2012 AMMAN — The capital’s water distribution system is back on track following supply disruptions and no further cuts are expected, a Jordan Water Company (Miyahuna) official said on Thursday. Several households in Amman’s southern and western areas missed their turn under the water distribution programme when the Zara-Maeen […]

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According to reports by the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Institute, blooms of jellyfish were sighted one kilometer off the beach of Hadera on Sunday. By Zafrir Rinat | Jul.01, 2012 The seasonal swarm of jellyfish which arrived on Israeli beaches over the last weekend, made their way to the north of the country. According […]

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New nests of rare Nightjar discovered outside of known habitat after 20 years as bird struggles habitat shrinking Erez Erlichman Published: 06.30.12, Some 20 years have passed since the Nubian Nightjar, a rare desert bird, was spotted in nature. Last time, Nightjar nests were spotted in the Arava region and for many years researchers assumed […]

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Israeli high-school students able to generate thousands of Rumex seeds as part of class project, effectively saving it from extinction Tamar Trabelsi-Hadad A rare Israeli plant got a new lease on life recently, courtesy of a high-school science project. According to a Yedioth Ahronoth report, students at the Environmental Leadership class at Ha’kfar Hayarok High […]

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BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The head of the Palestinian water authority said Wednesday that discussions with the Israeli side were ongoing to increase quantities of drinking water without raising prices. Israel seeks to increase the price of one cubic liter of water from 2.60 shekels to 3.70 shekels, which will cost the Palestinian treasury around 700 […]

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Palestinian farmers say discrimination, not a concern for the land, are at the root of an order to uproot olive trees in a northern nature reserve. By Zafrir Rinat | Jun.28, 2012 One of the most complex challenges facing the Israel Nature and Parks Authority is finding the balance between protecting the nature in its […]

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Energy and Water Resources Minister Uzi Landau announced the allocation, but not before an environmental group warns that without regular budgets the systems will collapse again. By Zafrir Rinat | Jun.28, 2012 After years of neglect that has frequently led to the collapse of the sewerage infrastructure in Arab towns and the pollution of local […]

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Cyprus seeks amicable solution for maritime border zone 2012/Jun-27 BEIRUT: Cypriot President Demetris Christofias said Tuesday that he would continue to seek an equitable solution for the maritime border zone dispute between the regional states once he becomes president of the European Union in four days. During a regional conference on energy in Nicosia, Christofias […]

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Steven Viney Sun, 24/06/2012 In the words of Faisal Eissa, the managing director of Elsewedy for Wind Energy Generation, Global Wind Day is “a perfect opportunity for hundreds of organizations around the world to share hands-on knowledge about wind energy between experts and a curious public,” in an attempt to realize the power of wind […]

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by Raed Omari | Jun 24, 2012 AMMAN — The Senate on Sunday endorsed the 2010 draft gas exploration agreement signed between the government, the National Petroleum Company and BP Exploration Operating Company Limited as referred from the Lower House. The agreement, as stated in its mandating reasons, aims at improving the Risheh gas field […]

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By Zafrir Rinat | Jun.24, 2012 In light of the expected shortage of natural gas in coming months, the Environmental Protection Ministry has given the Israel Electric Corporation the green light to use fuels that emit greater pollution, even at power stations in the densely populated areas of Tel Aviv and Haifa. One stipulation is […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 06/27/2012 07:16 “If the Kinneret is the heart of the water sector, the rivers are its arteries,” Landau says. “We want to see them flowing.” Energy and Water Minister Uzi Landau unveiled an extensive project by his ministry to rehabilitate Israel’s rivers and streams at a Green Growth conference in Ramat Gan […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 06/26/2012 04:31 New initiative marks further step in program overseen by MASHAV. Israeli and Indian government institutions will jointly launch an online communications network on Tuesday to provide instant contact between Indian farmers and Israeli agricultural technology experts. The launch will occur simultaneously at the Agriculture Ministry, the Foreign Ministry’s MASHAV program, […]

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by Hana Namrouqa | Jun 24, 2012 | 23:13 AMMAN — After a study showed that fewer than one in five of the Kingdom’s 400,000 school-age Facebook users showed interest in environmental issues, conservationists have launched a campaign to educate young people using social media. The Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN) recently […]

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June 23, 2012 01:17 AM By Olivia Alabaster BEIRUT: Experts are warning that 2012 could be a dangerous year in terms of forest fires, with an increasing number of fires starting earlier in the year, a growing buildup of combustible firewood on forest floors, and a lack of cohesive policy to manage the annual disaster […]

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Ministry ‘certain’ Disi project will finish on schedule by Hana Namrouqa | Jun 23, 2012 AMMAN — Water theft and vandalism of water sources are rising alarmingly and becoming the main obstacles to supplying the public with sufficient water, Minister of Water and Irrigation Mohammad Najjar said on Saturday. “Violators now not only steal pumping […]

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NABLUS, June 24, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli forces Sunday destroyed a water spring, which residents of Ein Shalabi, a village in central Jordan Valley, depend on to irrigate their crops and land, according to a local activist. Ghassan Douglas, in charge of settlements file at the Palestinian Authority in the northern part of the West […]

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