By Omar Obeidat – Jun 15,2015 – Last updated at Jun 15,2015 AMMAN – A number of projects will be launched this year to boost renewable energy usage, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Ibrahim Saif said on Monday. Speaking at a meeting Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour held with chief editors of daily newspapers and […]

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Nizar Hassan Hashem Osseiran| The Daily Star BEIRUT: Public Works Minister Ghazi Zeaiter vowed Monday to prevent the closure of Beirut’s only public beach after a judge earlier this month ordered its entrances shut following petitions by private developers. “I am going to take all necessary measures to ensure that the Ramlet al-Baida beach will […]

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Mohammed Zaatari| The Daily Star SIDON, Lebanon: A few hundred meters off the coast of Sidon, facing the city’s port and sea castle, lies the island of Al-Zira. A campaign kicked off this month to promote conservation of the historic landmark. The “Friends of Zira and Sidon’s Beach” organization took the first steps in their […]

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Sharon UDASIN 06/16/2015 Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat and Environmental Protection Minister Avi Gabbay inaugurated the Greennet recycling plant on Tuesday afternoon. A new recycling plant has begun collecting the garbage of some 1 million residents of the Jerusalem region – the fruits of a NIS 100 million investment in state-of-the-art waste technologies. Jerusalem Mayor Nir […]

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BEIRUT: Environment Minister Mohammad Machnouk Wednesday promised to do his utmost to address a looming garbage crisis, as the deadline for the closure of the Naameh landfill approaches with no decision yet on a substitute site. “We will not leave the people to address this problem [on their own] so that they get flooded with […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 06/15/2015 Ministry publishes main principles of plan after environment ministers met over the weekend with city’s mayor, members of task force appointed 2 weeks ago for formulating such a program. Praising the Environmental Protection Ministry’s new emergency plan to mitigate pollution in the Haifa Bay region, Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav stressed that […]

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BioBee is blitzing the Croatian orchards with its fixed flies, for the local ladies to mate with and produce – nothing. By Ruth Schuster | Jun. 17, 2015 The kibbutz company BioBee is blitzing orchards along the border between Serbia and Croatia with Israeli fruit flies, ordered by none other than the International Atomic Energy […]

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Shams Maan solar project to start generating power in September 2016’ – Jordan Times by Mohammad Ghazal – Jun 09,2015 – Last updated at Jun 09,2015 AMMAN — Jordan is set to witnesses the launch of several solar power plants in the next few years following Tuesday’s launch of the Middle East’s largest solar power […]

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By Dana Al Emam – Jun 11,2015 – Last updated at Jun 11,2015 AMMAN — The energy challenges facing the Kingdom are ones of management, not a lack of resources, according to a sector insider. “The most important element in energy management is reducing consumption, a matter that is not yet publically addressed at a […]

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By Laila Azzeh – Jun 10,2015 AMMAN — Um Rakan will never forget the day she managed to fix a water leak at her house and show her family how “capable” she was. The young mother said she felt an “overwhelming” sense of victory when repairing the leaking tap, especially since her husband was unable […]

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Production capacity of all of Israel’s desalination plants will soon reach 600 million cubic meters of water – nearly 70 percent of the country’s domestic water consumption. By Zafrir Rinat | Jun. 7, 2015 | Although Israel experienced an unprecedented drought in 2014, there will be no need to build more major desalination plants this […]

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Sterilized flies will be dispersed in orchards in Croatia and Bosnia to help farmers combat pests in a green manner. Ynet 06.09.15 BioBee, a bio-tech company on Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu concentrating on the field of biological pest management in agriculture, has won a massive tender with the International Atomic Energy Agency to supply of 400 […]

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The revolution of Gaza fish farms is making seafood accessible to the average Gazan; Gaza’s first shrimp farm kicks into action. AP Published: 06.10.15 The Gaza Strip, sitting on 40 km of Mediterranean coastline, has always been a large consumer of seafood. The demand for fish in Gaza is quite high, yet due to restrictions […]

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Mitzpeh Naftoach, which is slated for 1,400 apartments, is home to a wide variety of flora and fauna, some of which are in danger of extinction. By Zafrir Rinat | Jun. 9, 2015 The housing cabinet on Monday declared an important nature site in western Jerusalem as a priority area for the construction of new […]

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plaintiffs say reports, new findings regarding air pollution in Haifa and its possible link to cancer have caused them mental anguish and anxiety over their health. By Zafrir Rinat and Ido Efrati | Jun. 11, 2015 Four Haifa residents have asked to file a class action suit against 11 polluting plants in the Haifa Bay […]

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By Hana Namrouqa – Jun 10,2015 AMMAN — The iftaa department, the state body responsible for issuing religious edicts, has deemed abuse of the Kingdom’s forests as violations against public property, and thus punishable in Islam. The department said trees are one of the reasons behind mankind’s survival on earth and those who cut them […]

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Ghinwa Obeid| The Daily Star BEIRUT: Leila Zahid and her colleague have created what they call a “plastic fall,” using numerous plastic bottles to create a sculpture resembling a massive waterfall. The piece was displayed in Downtown Beirut Friday at the Green Festival, held to mark World Environment Day. The sculpture aims to bring people […]

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By Reuters | Baghdad Wednesday, 3 June 2015 ISIS militants have closed the gates of a dam on the Euphrates River in western Iraq, reducing the water and giving them greater freedom of movement to attack government forces downstream on the southern bank, local officials said. The militants have redirected the flow of water to […]

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AMMAN — Jordan is now implementing water projects that were meant for a decade from now despite a lack of financial and water resources due to the extraordinary population growth, a senior government official said on Sunday. Water Minister Hazem Nasser said hosting hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees coupled with water scarcity “is putting […]

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By Hana Namrouqa – May 30,2015 Consumers’ negligence in carrying out regular maintenance on their water tanks is a major source of household water loss, according to a study by the Water Authority of Jordan (Photo courtesy of the Ministry of Water and Irrigation) AMMAN — Only 5 per cent of domestic water is used […]

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