Osama Al Sharif Aug 10,2021    For decades scientists have been warning governments about the catastrophic effects of global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions, on climate change and calling for drastic measures to reduce man-made CO2 emissions as the only way to prevent world-wide environmental disaster. But since the signing of the Kyoto Protocol […]

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A dangerous heatwave is sweeping across the Mediterranean, the latest in a series of recent extreme weather events that underscore the real-world impacts of climate change. The Italian island of Sicily may have smashed continental Europe’s heat record when thermometers hit 48.8 degrees Celsius (119.8 Fahrenheit) on Wednesday. While residents in the region are used […]

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From flash floods to forest fires, drought to “sea snot”, Turkey is bearing the brunt of increasingly frequent disasters blamed on climate change, putting pressure on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to act. Wildfires that have killed eight people since late July across southern coastal regions, ravaging forests and turning villages to ash, followed the growth […]

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Fuel shortages force people to turn to firewood to cook food, and logging as a source of work in a ravaged economy. 12 Aug 2021 Yemeni lumberjack Ali al-Emadi spends hours chopping down an acacia tree with an axe as his 12-year-old nephew helps out splitting logs. In a country blighted by war, al-Emadi had […]

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Tamara Abueish, Published: 08 August ,2021: Dumat Al Jandal, the Middle East’s largest wind farm and the first in Saudi Arabia, is now connected to the power grid and has begun producing carbon-free electricity. The wind farm consists of 99 wind turbines, each with the capacity to generate electricity for up to 70,000 homes in […]

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For years powerful entities with vested interests, whether petroleum giants or conservative politicians, tried to deny a connection between human activity and extreme weather events. Dr. Friederike Otto, a trailblazing scientist from Oxford, provides the missing link Yarden Michaeli Aug. 12, 2021 8:20 PM When the water reached chest level and inched up worrisomely to […]

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Haaretz Editorial Aug. 8, 2021 The floods and fires in Europe and the Mediterranean in recent weeks have been unprecedented in extent, causing heavy losses to life and property. Lessons must be learned from these events to improve preparedness for a future in which the climate crisis and increased construction will worsen the damage. Such […]

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A statement from the Foreign Ministry urges international cooperation in order to combat climate change. By JERUSALEM POST STAFF   AUGUST 10, 2021 Climate change is believed by scientists to affect millions of people (photo credit: REUTERS) The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published a report on Monday, warning that climate change […]

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Real change in lifestyle and habits are needed to mitigate climate change, and Israel needs to recognize the importance of regional cooperation Zafrir Rinat Aug. 9, 2021 Humanity was deluged by a flood of gloomy predictions with Monday’s publication of a new report by a team of United Nations climate scientists. The report contains important […]

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Climate change is exacerbating conditions conducive to fires, but in the Levant – including Greece, Turkey and Israel – at least we don’t have dry lightning; we have fools and firebugs instead Ruth Schuster Aug. 9, 2021 4:46 PM As of Sunday, Athens was surrounded by flames. Thousands upon thousands had to be evacuated as […]

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Turkish rescuers on Thursday began evacuating hundreds of villagers by sea after a deadly wildfire engulfed the outer edges of a thermal power plant storing thousands of tons of coal. An AFP team saw firefighters and police fleeing the 35-year-old Kemerkoy plant in the Aegean province of Mugla as bright balls of orange flame tore […]

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July 30, 2021 Lebanon battled rapidly spreading wildfires for a third straight day Friday after they destroyed pine forests and threatened homes in northern areas. The blaze that started Wednesday in Lebanon’s remote Akkar region “is spreading quickly over large areas,” Agriculture Minister Abbas Mortada told AFP. “It’s spreading in all directions” fanned by high […]

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06 tonnes of waste has been collected since launch of nationwide campaign By Rayya Al Muheisen – Aug 03,2021 A total of 106 tonnes of waste has been collected since the Environment Ministry’s launch of the nationwide campaign ‘With determination, we protect our environment’ last Tuesday, the ministry said (Photo courtesy of Environment Ministry’s Facebook […]

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Early in life, I became aware of a common disturbance nestled within the landscape: litter. The prevalence of litter in nature is a significant problem in the Jewish state. By JOSEPH WEISSBERG   JULY 31, 2021 When I was 12 years old, I went camping with my family in the Negev Desert. We were taken […]

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Reuven and Orya Marriot live in the town of Otniel and run their farm out of a caravan and are driven by the mission of environmentalism. By STEVE LINDE   JULY 29, 2021 My sister is on a plant-based diet – she calls it a lifestyle – that appears to be both healthy and tasty. […]

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Israeli startup Beewise develops robotic arm that scans stacks of honeycombs, inspecting them for disease and pesticides and reporting in real time any hazards that threaten the colony; tool appears to be more efficient than humans Reuters | Published: 08.09.21 The buzz of the bees drowned out the hum of the robotic arm, which worked […]

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Aug 05,2021   AMMAN — A cooperation agreement was signed between the National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC) and the Jordan Valley Authority (JVA) within the project “Increasing the resilience of poor and vulnerable communities to the effects of climate change in Jordan through the implementation of innovative projects in water and agriculture in support of […]

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It has always bewildered me that we are ready to shed our blood for this land and yet we treat it so badly. By GERSHON BASKIN   JULY 28, 2021 The government recently set its climate change commitments to lower CO2 emission and to improve our environment. The decision to tax plastic utensils is an […]

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We would need 1.6 planet Earths to maintain our current levels of consumption and waste production. How we can survive climate change and repair the damage Yosef Gotlieb Aug. 5, 2021 1:37 PM Global warming, species loss and resource degradation are interrelated crises that are occurring with unparalleled speed and intensity. These threats are nature-based, […]

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Heatwave-stricken Israel is still cooler than Canada and Siberia were in June, because global warming is changing reality in ways we can’t predict and didn’t expect yet Ruth Schuster Aug. 2, 2021 Wildfires have been raging in southern Europe and Turkey as extreme heat grips the region, with temperatures of 40 to 45 degrees Celsius […]

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