Lebanon has signed a deal with Russia’s largest oil company, Rosneft, to upgrade and operate storage installations in the country’s northern city of Tripoli. Caretaker Energy Minister Cesar Abi Khalil signed the deal on Friday, in the presence of Russian Ambassador to Lebanon Alexander Zasypkin, and told reporters that Rosneft will manage storage operations. Abi […]

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January 21, 2019 Egyptian Environment Minister Yasmin Fouad announced that the government has prepared a tariff for the sale of energy from waste (EfW), in cooperation with the Electricity Ministry. All procedures are being finalized with the Finance Ministry and will be announced within weeks, the al-Borsa newspaper reported Fouad as saying. The minister said […]

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January 26, 2019 An Egyptian ministerial delegation including Minister of Local Development Mahmoud Sharawy, Minister of Defense Mohammed al-Assar and Minister of Environment Yasmen Fouad returned to Cairo on Friday following a five-day visit to Germany seeking to obtain knowledge on the global technological systems of waste management. The delegation held meetings with Germany’s Minister […]

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note: The report mentioned below: 2019 Report: Climate Change, Water Security and National Security for Jordan, Palestine and Israel is available at ecopeaceme.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/climate-change-web.pdf EcoPeace’s Workshop on Water Security and Environmental Peacebuilding From the 10th to the 15th of December, EcoPeace Middle East hosted a first of its kind workshop on ‘Middle East Water Security and […]

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In addition to rocket fire and airborne incendiary devices, residents of Israeli communities bordering Gaza are now battling putrid smell of giant landfills and sewage from the strip’s northern neighborhoods that’s polluting Israel’s groundwater. Matan Tzuri|Published: 01.15.19 The residents of Israeli communities bordering Gaza, who for years have been dealing with Hamas rocket attacks and […]

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editor’s noteL The Jordan Times has been running a series of articles promoting biosaline agriculture – agriculture that requires less water and can tolerate high heat. They are grouped below. From law to biosaline agriculture, Turman challenges coventional farming techniques – Jordan Times By Reem Rawashdeh – Jan 03,2019 AMMAN — For Odeh Al Turman, […]

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Dec 29,2018 – AMMAN — The Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) said on Saturday that the Ghabawi landfill will start generating 5 megawatts per hour (MWh) as of next February. The GAM is working on investing in using waste to produce electricity, Amman Mayor Yousef Shawarbeh said during an inspection of a recycling centre in east […]

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The JNF, Israel’s chief forestry body, intends to turn vast open Mediterranean landscapes into planted forests – this is a real threat to the future of some of the most important open spaces in the region Zafrir Rinat | Jan. 14, 2019 | 4:09 AM | 3 The landscapes of the eastern Mediterranean are an […]

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By Hana Namrouqa – Jan 09,2019 AMMAN — The Ministry of Water and Irrigation has implemented desalination projects worth JD40 million which have generated 3,500 cubic metres of water per hour over the past three years, a senior government official said on Tuesday. The projects included the construction of new desalination plants and the rehabilitation […]

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By Ahmed Bani Mustafa – Jan 10,2019 AMMAN — Exempting electric vehicles (EVs) from customs is a positive measure, however, more is needed to “rescue” the trade, stakeholders said. After raising the tax on EVs from zero to 25 per cent, the government recently decided to exempt around 2,500 vehicles that were imported or bought […]

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Luxor governorate has launched President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s campaign “Shabab fi Hob Misr” (Youth and Love in Egypt) on Wednesday to plant one million fruit trees as part of a plan to develop Luxor city. Head of Luxor City Ayman al-Sherif said that the campaign would plant the trees in al-Mattar district during the first […]

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Sad fate of West Bank environment: Caught between illegal Palestinian hunters and illegal settlement expansionists Zafrir Rinat | Dec. 28, 2018 | 2:23 AM | 1 The trial of three West Bank settlers charged with opening a new road to the unauthorized outpost of Alonei Shiloh began this week. Part of the road passes through […]

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Zafrir Rinat | Jan. 12, 2019 The many tourists visiting the resort town Eilat who sun themselves on the beaches and paddle in the Red Sea’s clear waters probably don’t think twice before anointing themselves with sunscreen. Most of them certainly don’t know that these lotions have an especially detrimental effect on one of the […]

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Some 8,000 acres went up in flames due to airborne firebombs flown over the border from Gaza in recent months Zafrir Rinat | Dec. 12, 2018 Nature reserves and other open spaces near Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip stand to suffer irreversible damage if more fires break out in the area, the Israel Nature […]

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Evrona Nature Reserve, the site of an oil leak followed by a waste pool spill, is still closed to public Zafrir Rinat | Dec. 30, 2018 | 7:47 PM | 1 The landscape of the Evrona Nature Reserve in the Negev Desert can be misleading. It appears to be a typical, acacia-studded desertscape through which […]

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Until now, civil suits could only be filed if the environmental hazard caused harm to people Zafrir Rinat | Jan. 2, 2019 | 12:07 AM The Knesset passed a law Tuesday allowing the public and nonprofit groups to file civil suits against any person or entity that damages the environment – a move inspired after […]

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By YAFIT OVADIA 01/03/2019 When beach-goers litter, the waste washes out to sea and may break up into smaller pieces. A study conducted by researchers at Tel Aviv University discovered that an alarming amount of microplastics – miniscule pieces of plastic that are ingested by aquatic creatures – have been found in the bodies of […]

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Half of the factories in the industrial cities are “air polluting,” Egypt’s Ministry of Environment said on Sunday, adding that 20 percent of the vehicles whose emissions have been measured are “violators,” as well as 59 percent of the public buses belonging to the Public Transport Authority (PTA). The Ministry of Environment has received about […]

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By ALON EINHORN 01/07/2019 This time, 20 acres filled with coral reefs located at a strategic point in the Carribeans. TiME (This is My Earth) managed, for a third year in a row, to raise enough money in order to purchase land containing endangered wildlife and declare it as a nature reserve, and this time […]

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is considered a climate hotspot due to its natural water scarcity, low levels of socio-ecological resilience, social tensions and political conflicts, and ongoing immigration crisis. Over the course of the century, Jordan, Palestine, and Israel are projected to experience an average temperature rise over the […]

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