by Joseph Mayton 22 July 2010 CAIRO – Beyond the most obvious hardships brought about by the Gaza blockade, there is another less commonly discussed environmental calamity in the making that could have terrible long-term implications. According to a report by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the Israeli-Egyptian blockade on the Strip is causing […]
In the midst of an environmental calamity in Gaza lies an opportunity [CGNews]
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Accord or Discord on the Nile? – Parts I & II
An assessment of the Agreement on the Nile River Basin Cooperative Framework (CFA) from the International Water Law Project Blog. “Its always a good day when nations come to terms over shared fresh water resources, especially in the more parched regions of the world. Hence, it was a wonderful turn of events when various news […]
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Heavy rains, floods kill 24 in Yemen / 14 in Saudi Arabia [Reuters / Daily Times]
By REUTERS, Published: Jul 16, 2010 SANAA: Fierce rains and floods have killed 24 people in northwest Yemen and southwest Saudi Arabia and cut off several villages, local media and government officials said on Friday. Heavy downpours in Yemen’s Wasab Safil district forced a dam to burst, the Interior Ministry said, citing witnesses, killing nine […]
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Potential Lebanese- Israeli Conflict over Natural Gas Revisited [Ya Libnan]
Potential Lebanese- Israeli Conflict over Natural Gas Revisited JULY 7, 2010 By Ghassan Karam The USGS has declared the large potential of the Levant field in the Eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea but the Lebanese authorities have failed so far to either demarcate officially the Lebanese exclusive economic zone, or initiate a process of […]
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West Bank city sees a future in recycling [GlobalPost]
West Bank city sees a future in recycling: Nablus is at the heart of a Palestinian movement to promote biodiversity and self-sufficiency. By Daniella Cheslow July 4, 2010 10:17 http://web1.globalpost.com/dispatch/israel-and-palestine/100419/nablus-palestinian-west-bank-israel-recycling?page=0,1 NABLUS, West Bank — When Nablus city councilman Hafez Shaheen took office in 2005, he struggled to maintain basic urban functions like electricity and water as […]
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Red Sea oil spill nothing new [BikyaMasr]
Red Sea oil spill nothing new – Bikya Masr June 22nd, 2010 http://bikyamasr.com/wordpress/?p=13992 CAIRO: Watching the news pour out of Egypt over the oil slick that has already hit some 100 kilometers of beaches on the Eastern Red Sea coast is shocking. Where were they last summer when oil spilled out of an offshore oil […]
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Arava Power leasing land from Bedouin for solar fields [Haaretz]
Published: 22.6.2010 By Avi Bar-Eli Source: Haaretz http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/business/arava-power-leasing-land-from-bedouin-for-solar-fields-1.297570 Arava Power Company has signed deals leasing land from Bedouin in the Negev for the construction of three giant solar-power fields. The company has earmarked NIS 400 million for the photovoltaic projects, which are supposed to produce 20 megawatts. The company signed agreements with the Tarabin and […]
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ECOWEEK 2010: Young architects forum in the Middle East
http://ecoweek.netfirms.com/ecoweek.gr/ecoweek2010_BJ/index.html International Conference and Interdisciplinary Workshops for Young Architects, Designers and Planners gives young professionals and graduate students the opportunity to learn from and cooperate with expert professionals through discussing, planning, and even constructing “green” projects for communities in Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Negev Desert, and the Biennale of Bat Yam. Participants work side […]
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New publication: Population growth and land development in Israel
Population and pavement: population growth and land development in Israel Daniel E. Orenstein and Steven P. Hamburg. Link to article Published in: Population & Environment Volume 31, Number 4 / March, 2010 Abstract: This research examines land use change in Israel––an intriguing but understudied setting with regard to population–environment dynamics. While Israel is fairly unique […]
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Polluted beaches result of insufficient state funding
Coast was clean just 60% of the time in 2009, Environmental Protection Ministry says. Jerusalem Post By EHUD ZION WALDOKS 15/04/2010 http://www.jpost.com/HealthAndSci-Tech/ScienceAndEnvironment/Article.aspx?id=173167 As the swimming season opens today, those planning to hit the beach must ask themselves: How clean are the beaches? How many times will the beaches be closed this summer because of pollution? […]
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