Shrinking land, drought and algae growth put stress on UNESCO site as tourist arrivals grow after lifting of sanctions. Mohammad Ali Najib | 11 Feb 2017 It has been more than a year since international sanctions against Iran were lifted, symbolically reopening the country to the rest of the world. While political tensions between the […]

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A slew of water treatment plants has greatly reduced Israel’s dependence on rainwater. But desalination may also be adversely affecting the environment and people’s health. Zafrir Rinat Feb 06, 2017 Israel has pumped increasing quantities of water from the Mediterranean Sea in recent years. The series of desalination plants built along the coast is supplying […]

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Despite improved power supply, Palestinians in besieged strip say durable solutions must be implemented. 01 Feb 2017 Farah Najjar Farah Najjar is an online producer at Al Jazeera English. Despite a temporary improvement in power supply, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip say the lack of consistent access to electricity has made their lives unbearable and […]

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By Hana Namrouqa – Feb 04,2017 AMMAN — Four drones will be released over the forests of the northern governorates in spring to monitor and record violations on trees, according to Minister of Agriculture Khaled Hneifat. The drones will be released in April, Hneifat said, noting that the ministry will purchase them at a cost […]

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Urgent Matters Judge of Baabda Hassan Hamdan ordered the permanent closure of the controversial Costa Brava landfill effective in four months, the National News Agency reported on Tuesday. The judge gave four months time period for the closing date, to pave way for concerned municipalities to find an alternative for the dump that receives the […]

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President Michel Aoun revealed Monday that a new waste management plan for the country will be “announced soon.” “A new waste management plan will be devised and its implementation will relieve the Lebanese regions of this crisis,” Aoun told a delegation comprising the heads of Lebanon’s municipal unions. “This plan takes into consideration the interests […]

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Court accepts appeal by Finance Ministry to temporarily ban Jerusalem municipality from staging strike of educational institutions, as residents forced to endure the continuing inconveniences of sanitation strikes, leading to littered streets and a partially crippled light rail. Ynet writers|Published: 30.01.17 , 11:06 Jerusalem’s residents awoke to a partially crippled light rail system caused by […]

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By Hana Namrouqa – Feb 05,2017 AMMAN — Forty-four factories and vocational workshops were closed down and received warnings during January for breaching health and environment regulations, an official at the Environment Ministry said on Sunday. In addition, the ministry has referred a scrap warehouse in Zarqa Governorate, around 22km northeast of Amman, to court […]

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By Suzanna Goussous – Jan 26,2017 AMMAN — Following up on its pledge to “turn Amman into an eco-friendly city”, the Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) will install LED lights on streets around the capital, the municipality’s council said on Thursday. Late last year, the municipality installed several LED lighting units on main roads in the […]

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There’s money in that half-eaten peanut butter sandwich or leftover pizza now making its way into your kitchen dustbin, says Dubai Carbon. Wet organic waste such as leftover household food or restaurant waste can be converted using heat and spinning technology to create what are called biosolid fuels. And those environmentally friendly fuels can be […]

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03 Feb 2017 07:23 GMT | Danielle Douglas Ouarzazate, Morocco – The southern sun bakes down upon Morocco’s 580-megawatt solar plant, in line to be the largest in the world upon its completion in 2018. This $9bn plant, known as Noor – “light” in Arabic – positions Morocco as a global leader in sustainable energy […]

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Reuters, Gaza Thursday, 26 January 2017 Marwan An-Najar, a Palestinian from the south of the Gaza Strip, says he has not tasted sweet tap water in 10 years. Every day, he travels four kilometers (2.5 miles) to fill a 20-litre plastic jerrycan at a local desalination station. Gaza has long suffered severe water problems, with […]

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ByAdam Rasgon, Tovah Lazaroff, Sharon Udasin 17 January 2017 97 suspended projects for Palestinians can now move forward. The Palestinian Authority now has autonomy over water projects in Palestinian towns and villages in the West Bank, a Palestinian official told The Jerusalem Post. Dib Abdel Ghafour, a top official at the PA Water Authority, announced […]

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As fertile land shrinks and water crisis deepens, Palestinians are searching for different ways to feed their families. 28 Jan 2017 12:29 GMT | Mersiha Gadzo Gaza Strip – January is usually a busy month for farmers in Gaza, as it marks the wheat planting season, but so far, Jaber Abu Rejela has had little […]

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The right wing claimed the recent spate of fires that plagued Israel was the result of arson, while the left called these claims incitement. A report by the Fire & Rescue Authority released two months later indicates that even when fires were labeled as arson, the evidence was not always sufficiently established. On the other […]

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A new flapping wind turbine from Tunisia marks a revolutionary breakthrough in the field of mechanics. Until recently, scientists have been limited in their ability to apply new understandings of animal and human motion to machines, according to Tyer Wind. In the wind energy sector, this limitation has resulted in fairly simple and relatively inefficient […]

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The huge solar farm is part of an ongoing project to vary the military’s power sources; the army promises to ‘invest tens of millions of shekels in the field.’ Ilana Curiel|Published: 28.01.17 , The IDF is about to inaugurate its largest solar project yet when it begins running a solar farm at the Ramon Airbase, […]

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Oil-rich Gulf state aims to meet almost half of its power needs from green sources and reduce fossil-fuel use. The United Arab Emirates has announced plans to invest $163bn in projects in a bid to generate almost half the country’s power needs from renewable sources. The UAE is a top oil exporter, but has taken […]

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ByJudy Siegel-Itzkovich, Eliyahu Kamisher 18 January 2017 18:01 Gov’t says certain models could be harmful to health, warns pregnant women to avoid them After receiving information that institutional coffee machines – at work, cafes, restaurants and hotels – could be emitting higher-than-permissible levels of lead, the government will soon begin a comprehensive sampling of models […]

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ByJudy Siegel-Itzkovich 21 January 2017 22:17 Bureaucracy delays supplementation to desalinated water • Plan’s cost has been debated for 8 years. An estimated 4,000 Israelis die in an average year due to an inadequate amount of magnesium in their bodies – and the amount they get from natural potable water sources is increasingly declining due […]

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