The businessman who created the mountain of garbage is financing its removal. By Zafrir Rinat | Nov. 13, 2013 Drivers on Route 6, the Trans-Israel Highway, have become used to the eyesore they see as they approach the town of Kalansua – a huge mound of garbage. But this week they were treated to a […]

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November 18, 2013 12:32 AM By Mohammed Zaatari TYRE, Lebanon: The municipality of Tyre is teaming up with civil society groups and environmental activists to launch a campaign to stop sand mining in the basin of Tyre’s Resthouse, a publicly owned resort property that is rented out to investors. “The sand-mining project will not get […]

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RAMALLAH, November 16, 2013 (WAFA) – An Israeli committee’s approval of the construction of a controversial so-called biblical park that would end up seizing hundreds of dunums of Arab land in two East Jerusalem neighborhoods was the focus of two of the three Palestinian dailies on Saturday. Al-Quds said in the headline that an Israeli […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 11/05/2013 1 The conditions could also result in outbreaks of transmissible diseases from pests such as mosquitoes Rising temperatures and climbing sea levels due to climate change could be putting more than five million Israelis at severe risk, a special Environmental Protection Ministry report has indicated. The rise of the Mediterranean Sea’s […]

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November 06, 2013 12:11 AM By Margareta Wahlstam Over the last three decades, economic losses associated with natural disasters like floods, storm surges, hurricanes and droughts have risen in lockstep with the steady climb in global temperatures. Data from a growing number of governments suggest that so far this century such losses have amounted to […]

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Sharjah, 29 October 2013 The Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) concluded its sixth annual conference on sustainable energy in Arab countries. The meeting, held under the patronage of HH Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, member of the UAE Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, was attended by 600 delegates coming from […]

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Highlights from Directors’ USA tour As a run-up to the official launch of FoEME’s Jordan River Faith Based campaign in November, FoEME’s three Directors visited three major cities in the United States, Washington DC, Chicago and New York City, from September 25 through October 15, to promote the concept that sharing water is the best […]

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For years the southern Jordan River region has been a closed military zone. The local wildlife has only benefited from this, but will this tranquility continue? By Zafrir Rinat | Oct. 30, 2013 Areas in which humans have caused great damage and even spilled blood can, over time, become sanctuaries for nature. Precisely in places […]

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by JT | Nov 05, 2013 AMMAN — HRH Prince Hassan has called for the equitable sharing of water resources and greater collaboration to support stability in the West Asia North Africa region. “If managed effectively as a shared resource, what we have could go so much further — even in our fractious region,” the […]

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Ruling follows similar decision in case of navy divers. By Eli Ashkenazi | Nov. 4, 2013 Haifa District Court Judge Ron Shapira rejected Sunday morning a suit filed by 50 fishermen against two companies that have polluted the Kishon estuary: Haifa Chemicals and Fertilizers & Chemicals. The fishermen claimed that the Kishon River’s polluted water […]

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November 06, 2013 12:15 AM BEIRUT: A bird conservation organization called for more measures to protect endangered migrating birds, during a workshop to discuss the intersections between the flocks and ecotourism in Lebanon. The Migratory Soaring Birds Project organized the workshop Monday, with the participation of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon […]

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by SHARON UDASIN 10/31/2013 The 200-megawatt thermo-solar facility is the second phase of a multi-stage solar city to be established in the region. The Israeli solar firm HelioFocus signed a memorandum of understanding on Tuesday with Chinese energy giant Taiqinq to build a $340 million solar facility that will reinforce a giant coalfired power plant […]

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by Hana Namrouqa | Nov 05, 2013 | 17:54 Updated: Nov 05, 2013 AMMAN – The Ministry of Water and Irrigation on Tuesday raised the pumping capacity of the Disi Water Conveyance Project by 20 per cent, according to government officials. The project now operates at 90 per cent of its total pumping capacity of […]

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30-10-2013. Source: EU Neighbourhood Info Centre An EU-funded project promoting energy efficiency in construction, Med-ENEC II, recently led a discussion on energy efficiency and its potential to boost employment and energy needs in Egypt by reducing energy consumption, as part of the Cairo Climate Talks. The Cairo Climate Talks are a series of events meant […]

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15-10-2013. Source: ENPI-info The production of a business plan, enhanced capacities in research fund raising, technical knowledge, and stronger potential for more integration in the European Research Area: these are some of the outcomes celebrated during the final conference of the PERA (Palestine for European Research Area) project, which has taken place in Tulkram, Palestine. […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 10/24/2013 For those Palestinians and Israelis working together on the ground in the water sector, cooperation has become a necessity – but on a business- to-business level rather than at governmental scale. “Individuals and entrepreneurs find it easier to cooperate than governments,” Shukri Haramy, director of MEDCO, told a conference in Tel […]

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By JEFF WHEELWRIGHT October 9, 2013 MORRO BAY, Calif. — PEACE talks are under way again in Jerusalem. If the past is any guide, the two sides are stymied over difficult issues like settlements and borders. The negotiators badly need a new approach, and one is right beneath their feet, in the Kidron Valley, the […]

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As Dead Sea water levels recede and land erodes, efforts are being made to save the ‘world’s lowest nature reserve’: Einot Tzukim. By Zafrir Rinat | Oct. 28, 2013 Visitors to the Einot Tzukim nature reserve near the Dead Sea might be surprised to discover two new pools at the site. The artificial pools were […]

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British engineering firm in talks with Israel’s national water company to team up on water projects in various parts of world Reuters Published: 10.28.13, 07:59 / Israel Business Arup is in talks with Israel’s national water company Mekorot to partner on water projects in various parts of the world, a senior executive at the British […]

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by Muniruzzaman Khan | Oct 27, 2013 | 22:02 On September 27, the 195 member countries of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), supported by the work of thousands of scientists from around the world, released its Fifth Assessment Report. Even for a military man like me, the latest scientific evidence on […]

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