Local residents’ class action lawsuit reveals extent of damage to the Zin Stream, where instead of clear spring water, yellow and foul-smelling sewage water flows regularly. Zafrir Rinat 12.09.2020 A class action lawsuit filed on Sunday reveals the scope of pollution caused by a phosphates production facility in southern Israel, which has damaged the Zin Stream in the […]

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Subscribers and friends are invited to register (see below) for the virtual book tour webinar with Dan Rabinowitz, the author of the important hew book, The Power of Deserts, Monday Sept 14, noon Eastern Standard Time. Climate Change and Solar Potential in the Middle East Dan Rabinowitzof Tel Aviv Universityon his new book The Power […]

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Message from the Editor By: Bettina Ezbidi The case numbers are rising in Palestine, yet apparently, we fear COVID-19 much less than we did at the beginning of the pandemic. It seems that we respond more to novelty than to actual danger. The same can be said about global warming. We are becoming increasingly careless […]

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Issue: 269, Sep 2020 Readers are encouraged to follow the links to each article. The entire issue is available on the This Week in Palestine website for downloading into pdf format. (ed) Renewable Energy in Palestine Article: ABAAD Contracting Company Article: Cultivating Hope | By: Courtesy of CARE Palestine West Bank/Gaza Article: Green Energy… A […]

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an example of the articles in the Special Issue By: Courtesy of Massader, a PIF Company The installation of over 578,500-megawatt (Mw) globally and 5,500 Mw of solar photovoltaics (PV) capacity in the Middle East represents nothing less than a breakthrough for energy security and sustainable development in the world.*1 Located in a region that […]

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an article in the special issue on solar potential in Palestine By: Hasan Abu-Libdeh Thirty-plus years ago, I visited Geneva for the first time. Aside from the magnificent scenery, I was impressed by the spread of gardens and pools on rooftops across town. At the time, I thought that this should be among the seven […]

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Al-Masry Al-Youm September 8, 20 Ethiopia’s government, led by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, has found itself in a quagmire of rising domestic and international tensions, raising fears for the survival of the government in question. Africa’s second-most-populous nation now faces ongoing riots in the Oromia and Wolayta regions, and a standoff with the Tigray regional […]

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By DOMINIK DOEHLER, ZAVIT/SCIENCE, ENVIRONMENT NEWS AGENCY SEPTEMBER 6, 2020 10:01 In hardly any other country has planting trees changed the landscape and living conditions as much as it did in Israel last century. The question now is how to preserve the forests for the future. In its early years, most of the State of […]

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Israel’s Water Authority reports slightly stronger flow from the Dan stream in July, for the first time since 2003 Noa Shpigel Zafrir Rinat 03.09.2020 Lake Kinneret’s water level in September measured the highest for the month in 27 years, reaching 209.535 meters below sea level. In September 1993, the previous record for that month, the […]

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Despite assurances by health authorities that reusables are safe if washed properly, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv renege on commitment to greener, safer utensils Nir Hasson 02.09.2020 The move to stop using disposable utensils in schools and preschools in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and other major Israeli cities has been halted due to the coronavirus crisis. Last […]

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The idea was promoted by the Green Procurement Forum, a group of government ministries which is led by the accountant-general and the Environmental Protection Ministry. By DANIEL NISINMAN   SEPTEMBER 9, 2020 The Environmental Protection Ministry and the Government Procurement Administration have recently joined hands in an effort to find alternatives to for using plastic […]

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Subscribers and friends are invited to register (see below) for the virtual book tour webinar with Dan Rabinowitz, the author of the important hew book, The Power of Deserts, Monday Sept 14, noon Eastern Standard Time. Climate Change and Solar Potential in the Middle East Dan Rabinowitzof Tel Aviv Universityon his new book The Power […]

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NAJIB SAAB Sept 1, 2020 Less than a week after the publication of figures on the unprecedented rise in global temperatures, a thermometer in Southern California’s Death Valley soared to almost 55 degrees Celsius, according to the U.S. National Weather Service, the highest temperature recorded anywhere in the world in the past 100 years. Temperatures […]

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2/9/2020 The UAE capital has become home to more than 800 flamingo chicks and nine new species since the start of 2020. Environment Agency Abu Dhabi reflected on achievements in wildlife and conservation in its half year report. Discoveries include seven new invertebrates and two plants – and follow a pledge to phase-out single use […]

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Development of the new ‘Butterfly Quarter’ in city of Hadera hasn’t even begun and the Cigaritis cilissa is already disappearing. Zafrir Rinat 27.08.2020 In the past two decades there’s been a 99 percent drop in population of the Cigaritis cilissa butterfly, native to the coastal region in northern Israel, according to a survey by an […]

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September 4, 202010:27 AM ET Ruth Sherlock Twitter Lebanon’s capital Beirut remains devastated by the massive explosion at the city’s port last month. The country is in the depths of an economic collapse, and coronavirus is spreading. But as Lebanon reels from multiple tragedies, conservationists are pointing to one bright spot. They say a record […]

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The army has discovered more than 4 tons of ammonium nitrate near Beirut’s port, a find that’s a chilling reminder of the horrific explosion a month ago that killed 191 people. According to the military, army experts were called in for an inspection and found 4.35 tons of the dangerous chemical in four containers stored […]

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Lebanon’s Bisri Valley lies on a green fertile bed, a spot that has cradled civilizations dating as far back as the Bronze Age. Its expansive lands of pine, citrus trees and ancient ruins are threatened with being submerged by a controversial mega dam funded by the World Bank. For years, activists and locals have voiced […]

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Saturday 29 August 2020 The Blue Nile River flows near the site of the planned Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam near Assosa, Ethiopia. (AP) AFP Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia have failed to agree on a unified text on the management of Addis Ababa’s controversial Nile dam, Khartoum’s water and irrigation minister said Friday. The Grand Ethiopian […]

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Aug 25,2020 AMMAN — The National Energy Research Centre of the Royal Scientific Society (RSS) has won the “Energy Globe Award”, the Global Sustainability Award, for the “Solar Water Pumping in the Jordan Valley and Highlands” project. The RSS on Tuesday said that the project included replacing inefficient, traditional irrigation pumps based on electricity and […]

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