11/22/2016 Blaze spreads northwestward due to high winds and dry weather conditions. Residents of various communities in central and northern Israel were evacuated from their homes Tuesday as a forest fire that broke out Monday night in the country’s center spread due to high winds and unseasonably high temperatures. Authorities evacuated residents from the northern […]

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5,000 vehicles have been towed away since campaign was launched in 2011 By Hana Namrouqa – Nov 12,2016 AMMAN — More than 1,300 abandoned cars have been removed from the streets of the capital since the start of this year, according to a municipal official. Under an ongoing effort to rid the streets of Amman […]

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Residents of the al-Sfira town in North Lebanon blocked the major road to the village protesting a decision to establish a landfill in the area, the National News Agency reported on Saturday. The locals blocked the road with burning tires and protested the municipality’s performance and a decision to establish a waste sorting plant in […]

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Desalinated water low on magnesium is creating a stealthy public health crisis in Israel and the government is settling for a committee. Peretz Darr Nov 15, 2016 Drought has always been a threat of existential proportions in the Middle East. The path Israel chose to mitigate its impact was discussed in the New York Times […]

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Area in heavily congested central region will be left as green lung for the public, even though it will remain open land rather than nature reserve. Zafrir Rinat Nov 13, 2016 The National Planning and Building Council decided last week to advance a plan to turn a large area of central Israel’s Sharon Plain into […]

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Greenpeace Israel hails cabinet decision, but declares that new master plan to exploit renewable energy options must be drawn up. Zafrir Rinat Nov 15, 2016 read more: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.753297

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By Linda Gradstein | The Media Line November 10, 2016 Country hopes to reduce dependence on oil by 60 percent Tel Aviv, Israel – The motorized scooter, with chrome gleaming in the sun, is mounted on a turning platform. Visitors to the fourth annual Fuel Choices Summit stop and take selfies with the gleaming futuristic-looking […]

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According to a recent report, Israel has the highest percentage of students studying social and environmental science in the OECD; meanwhile, the Jewish state comes in dead last in terms of students studying architecture. Gad Lior|Published: 12.11.16 Israel has come in first place amongst all 32 OECD countries in the percentage of people who study […]

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It is hard to imagine life without access to sufficient quantities of fresh water, but in some parts of the world, particularly the Middle East, that is becoming more than a theoretically disturbing possibility, as climate change, mass migration, environmental degradation, drought and political instability – among other issues – make the use and management […]

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COGAT head Maj. Gen. Mordechai writes letter imploring international community to help before an impending water crisis hits the Palestinians, who refuse to sit with the Israelis to talk about a long term water management program. Itamar Eichner|Published: 08.11.16 , 11:49 The IDF has warned the international community that the water infrastructure in the West […]

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Moha Ennaji The United Nations World Water Development Report confirms what many already know: hundreds of thousands of people in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) — especially in Algeria, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — have faced the worst water shortages in decades in 2016. This is the last thing […]

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HAARETZ Israeli activist Alon Tal warns that U.S. environmental groups may be powerless to prevent President-elect Donald Trump’s pro-business outlook. Zafrir Rinat Nov 13, 2016 The election of Donald Trump to the White House cast a giant shadow over the United Nations conference on climate change, which began in Marrakesh this week. As voters in […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 11/10/2016 Trump threatened in May that as president he would cancel the agreement, describing the accord as “bad for US business” and previously calling climate change a “hoax.” As world leaders gather in Morocco for this year’s United Nations Conference on Climate Change, European Union Ambassador Lars Faaborg-Andersen called upon Israel to […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 11/13/2016 This year, the five projects focus on solar energy, biomass, fuel cells and energy efficiency. In hopes of bolstering the global clean energy sector, the energy arm of the US-Israel Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation will grant $4 million to five new American-Israeli partnerships in the field. BIRD Energy is […]

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Recommendations for Green Economy and Sustainability in Rebuilding Beirut, 11/11/2016 The Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) concluded its ninth annual conference, held at the American University of Beirut. The conference brought together about 500 delegates from 58 countries, representing 160 institutions from public and private sectors, universities, research centers and civil society. AFED’s […]

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By Rula Samain – Nov 12,2016 AMMAN — Media outlets play the role of communicator between specialists and the public on environmental issues, and can thus make people more environmentally responsible, sector specialists said on Saturday. Speaking at a workshop on environmental awareness among media organisations, Nabil Sharif, the director of the Imdad Media Centre […]

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A recent workshop on the role of the media in protecting the environment and raising awareness about all related issues is welcome, if long overdue. The issue is important and the media can, and should, do much more to educate the public on the many problems related to the environment. But, as the minister of […]

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AMMAN — HRH Princess Sumaya, president of the board of governors of the Amman-based Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia Technology Centre, on Sunday headed the sixth meeting of the board, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. During the meeting, attendees showcased the recommendations of the technical committee and discussed endorsing a work plan […]

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A new coalition of climate groups has come together to tackle climate change in the Muslim world. Many Muslim-majority countries continue to contribute to climate change by burning fossil fuels, writes Naser Haghamed By Naser Haghamed is CEO of Islamic Relief Worldwide. For years now, a strange paradox has existed within the Muslim world. On […]

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On the edge of the Sahara desert, Morocco is building one of the world’s biggest solar power plants in a project largely funded by the European Union. It is a hard success for other African nations to match as they seek to implement a new global deal to combat climate change. The huge 160-megawatt first […]

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