By Khetam Malkawi AMMAN – Jordanians and tourists alike will be able to enjoy leisure facilities on the shores of the Dead Sea that will be constructed over the next 25 years as part of a master plan that seeks to develop the site. Taha Zboun, CEO of the Jordan Development Zone Company, said the […]

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July 14, 2011 01:02 AM By Emma Gatten The Daily Star BEIRUT: Ask a Lebanese shopper how safe they think the fruit and vegetables they buy are and a typical response is one of wariness. The latest wave of mistrust probably stems from reports that sewage water has been used to irrigate crops, as well […]

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By Humeyra Pamuk Reuters DUBAI – Ali’s air conditioning quietly cools his spacious Dubai apartment around the clock and all year round, even when he is away on holiday. With outside temperatures soaring towards 50 degrees in summer, he likes to come home to his chilled oasis in this skyscraper city sprouting from the desert. […]

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Environment Ministry’s NIS 220 million program will take three years to implement. By Zafrir Rinat The cabinet yesterday approved a cleanup program for the Kishon streambed to remove a layer of contaminated material that has accumulated there over the years. The project, put together by the Environmental Protection Ministry, is to take about three years […]

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Many of Israel’s most unique plant species are not located in nature reserves, and are therefore threatened by development. The Nature and Parks Authority is proposing a solution. By Zafrir Rinat The Israel Nature and Parks Authority is not effectively protecting rare plants in Israel, most markedly in the northern Negev. One problem is that […]

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Published: 26.6.2011. Egypt’s government has started to implement a new plan to treat 9-13 billion cubic meters of sanitary and agricultural drainage water to help solve the problem of limited water resources, said Irrigation Minister Hussein al-Atfy on Sunday. In his speech at the opening of Egyptian-Dutch Water Week, Atfy said the plan is part […]

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By Anshel Pfeffer, 7 Jul 2011 The biblical battlefield between David and Goliath is about to become the scene of an altogether more modern confrontation: between oil drillers and environmentalists. Jews have for generations been complaining that while the Arab nations have enjoyed hundreds of billions of petrodollars, Israel, which is in the same region, […]

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Published June 26, 2011, By Eliot Caroom. Source: http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2011/06/newarks_idt_looks_to_israel_co.html Newark-based IDT carved out a niche in the world of telecommunications offering cheap international calls and calling cards, and as its stock awakens from a deep recessionary swoon, the company is looking for another growth opportunity wringing oil from layers of shale rock in Israel and Colorado. […]

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By Dan Rabinowitz. Published 06.07.11. Link to source: Haaretz-Opinion The big money for Better Place lies in the monopoly it received from the state on building and operating charging stations. The first electric cars in the Better Place system are due to arrive on Israel’s roads in the next few days. The cars themselves are […]

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By Wael Mahdi – Jul 4, 2011. Tunisia plans to invest $2 billion in solar projects to generate power for Europe, the minister of planning and international cooperation said. Tunisia is building 40 solar projects with foreign partners from Germany and other countries, and they will start providing electricity to Europe by 2016, Tunisia’s Abdelhamid […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 07/08/2011 05:58 Environmental Protection Ministry says insufficient cleanup cited for stoppage after one of the worst disasters this year. The Environmental Protection Ministry ordered the Eilat- Ashkelon Pipeline Company to cease all operations on the oil pipeline at Nahal Zin – into which 1.5 million liters of oil gushed last Wednesday – […]

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By Taylor Luck AMMAN – Jordanian energy officials have reiterated their commitment to securing alternative energy sources as technical delays continue to stall the resumption of Egyptian gas supplies. According to Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Khaled Toukan, officials are exploring alternative energy sources as Egyptian gas supplies have yet to resume since an […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 07/07/2011 04:39 Environmental Protection Ministry announces significant improvement in water quality due to cease in wastewater flow from Haifa Chemicals. The Kishon River Authority announced a significant improvement in water quality due to a cease in the wastewater flow from the nearby Haifa Chemicals plant at the beginning of May, a statement […]

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By Hana Namrouqa SHAUMARI WILDLIFE RESERVE – The Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN) is currently introducing Arabian Oryx from Saudi Arabia to the Shaumari Wildlife Reserve. The measure seeks to prevent inbreeding and subsequent genetic disorders in Arabian Oryx herds in the reserve, according to Shaumari Wildlife Reserve Director Ashraf Halah. “The […]

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Monitoring efforts by the Civil Administration are not preventing large amounts of refuse from Israel proper from being dumped illegally in the West Bank. By Zafrir Rinat An official from the Israel Defense Forces’ Civil Administration of Judea and Samaria, who traveled recently to the Palestinian villages Rantis and Shuqba, near Ramallah, saw a familiar […]

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Cabinet will to try to preempt the move on Sunday. By Avi Bar-Eli The Lebanese government has hired a Norwegian firm to conduct a seismic survey on the border of Israel’s exclusive economic zone. Lebanon intends to parcel out the rights to search for natural gas and oil in the area, which may also include […]

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The era of inexpensive and easily accessible fossil fuels may be drawing to a close, and some Israelis are preparing for it in earnest. By David Sheen * * Published 01:57 08.07.11 * Latest update 01:57 08.07.11 Preparing for the end of the world as we know it The era of inexpensive and easily accessible […]

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While recent data show that the birthrate is gradually declining in their communities, some Haredi women still opt for large families – and careers, too. By Tamar Rotem Each time, the news was declared as if a gong was being sounded: “Mazal tov – you have a new sister.” That imaginary gong was struck every […]

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By SHARON UDASIN 07/07/2011 11:24 Gelatinous creatures muck up filters at Hadera power plant; Global warming, overfishing may be contributing to glut of local species. Over the past few days, schools of jellyfish inundated the seawater cooling system at the Orot Rabin coal power plant in Hadera, requiring a mechanical “trash-rake” to pull them off […]

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