The charges against Bazan, which the company denies, were filed in connection with 15 alleged incidents in Haifa Bay in 2017 Israel Fisher Oct 2, 2022 Israel’s Environmental Protection Ministry indicted the Haifa-based Bazan Group along with senior company executives from the company on Thursday for alleged air pollution violations and other environmental offenses dating […]

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by Naharnet Newsdesk September 31 2022 Farmers in a small town perched on a northern Lebanese mountain have long refused to accept defeat even as the government abandoned them to a life off the grid. Harf Beit Hasna receives almost no basic services. No water or sewage system, no streetlight or garbage collection. The only public […]

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Najib Saab 25/9/2022 The persistent delay in addressing the issue of the aging supertanker Safer, used as a floating storage and offloading vessel, which threatens unprecedented pollution in the Red Sea region, proves that the world often does not learn from past experience. It seems that we ignore time bombs, as long as they are […]

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by Naharnet Newsdesk 25 August 2022 They fan out along the tense frontier with Israel in the pre-dawn darkness, setting traps and training their eyes on the other side of the separation fence — where the parakeets are. Dozens of Palestinian men and boys have taken up bird trapping in recent years. It’s a rare […]

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According to a new report, around one fifth of the turtles that were harmed died after being entangled in fishing nets off the shore of Israel Zafrir Rinat Sep 19, 2022 Over 500 sea turtles have been harmed by marine waste off Israel’s coast in the past two decades, mostly from various plastics, with one […]

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30/9/2022 Egypt, which is hosting the upcoming COP27 climate negotiations, is working on how to include compensation for economic losses due to climate catastrophes on the formal agenda of the November summit, as pressure grows from vulnerable countries to prioritize the issue, the country’s special representative of the summit said on Wednesday. Wael Aboulmagd, Egypt’s […]

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Oct 02,2022 AMMAN — Environment Minister Muawieh Radaideh on Sunday launched the Environment and Climate Week at the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature’s Ajloun Reserve.  The Environment and Climate Week will run through October 12. Several ambassadors and representatives of local and international companies and organisations attended the event, reflecting Jordan’s commitment to […]

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Israel hopes to lend a helping hand to try and find solutions to the water woes being faced by South Africa due to prolonged droughts in some parts of the country. August 24, 2022 Sipho Siso Water and sewage woes being experienced in Alexandra could soon be a thing of the past if only Johannesburg […]

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3/10/2022 As announced earlier in August, a 25-fil tariff per single-use plastic bag at shops came into effect on Saturday, October 1, in Sharjah. The move comes ahead of and in preparation for a complete ban on single-use plastic bags and materials in the emirate starting from January 1, 2024. Both decisions were announced on […]

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National Security Council says will ‘coordinate preparatory measures’ following Haaretz investigation revealing that Environment Ministry predicts one-meter rise in sea levels by 2050 due to climate change, possibly decimating Israel’s coastline Lee Yaron Sep 20, 2022 Following Haaretz’s investigation into the danger posed to the Israeli coastline by the rapid rise in sea levels, the […]

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Haaretz investigation reveals that the Environment Ministry is predicting a one-meter rise in sea levels by 2050 due to the climate change. The consequences will be dire – but the government is woefully unprepared Lee Yaron Sep 20, 2022 Over the past two months, the Ministry of Defense and the IDF have become concerned about […]

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Tel Aviv University professor says Egyptian gecko can eat anything it is able to overcome, and has the potential to cause severe damage to any ecosystem; Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority seeks help of local Arava residents in locating the species Ilana Curiel 09.20.22 Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority (NPA) said on Tuesday that it […]

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As an intense weeklong heat wave hits the region, Israeli climate scientists say that only new technologies and reducing greenhouse gas emissions can save us. By MAYA MARGIT/THE MEDIA LINE Published: AUGUST 29, 2022 Interrelated crises with reciprocal feedback: Pollution, Climate change and Activity that Impairs Biodiversity As long-lasting and intense heat waves coupled with […]

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‘Enriched seaweed’ with an extremely high nutritional value predicted by Israeli researchers is to become a superfood for mankind. By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH Published: SEPTEMBER 1, 2022 Could enriched seaweed help relieve the global food crisis? It might not sound very tasty, but researchers at Tel Aviv University and Haifa’s Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Institute […]

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By Rayya Al Muheisen – Sep 13,2022 AMMAN — Jordan is the first country in the region to sign the climate disclosure guidance agreement, said an International Finance Corporation (IFC) official. The agreement provides a competitive edge for Jordan, but also brings positive contributions to the business environment, according Mary Peschka, director of environment, social […]

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Ahram Online , Wednesday 14 Sep 2022 The spokesperson of the Egyptian foreign ministry has stressed that Egypt is following the rules of the UNFCCC on accreditation of local and regional groups for the COP27 thoroughly, describing a recent Human Rights Watch (HRW) report which claimed that Cairo is “stifling economic environmentalism” as “misleading, deplorable […]

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Ahram Online , Thursday 15 Sep 2022 Twenty-eight effective projects in the fields were discussed during the regional forum from the Arab region that was held on Thursday in Beirut, UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for Egypt and UN Special Envoy on Financing 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda Mahmoud Mohieldin said. UN Climate Change High-Level Champion […]

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Ahram Online , Monday 19 Sep 2022 Egypt plans to put forward seven Africa-focused initiatives to address climate change at the 27th session of the UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP27) set to take place in the Egyptian Red Sea city of Sharm El-Sheikh in November. Egyptian Environment Minister and the Ministerial Coordinator […]

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The German and Cypriot researchers that conducted the research warn that this will soon become a reality unless “immediate, ambitious and transboundary climate action is taken.” By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH Published: SEPTEMBER 7, 2022 The Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East – including Israel – are going to be affected by unprecedented and societally disruptive extreme […]

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by Naharnet Newsdesk13 September 2022 The Middle East is heating at nearly twice the global average, threatening potentially devastating impacts on its people and economies, a new climate study shows. Barring swift policy changes, its more than 400 million people face extreme heatwaves, prolonged droughts and sea level rises, said the report released ahead of […]

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