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Jordan, the PA and Israel trade water from the Red and Sea of Galilee

Some good news out of the Middle East region for a change: It was announced at the Israel Business Forum that Israel has signed...

eBay and Israel’s Ormat Team Up for Clean Power in Utah

Israel's Ormat Technologies has brokered a deal with eBay to power the online auction giant's new data center in Utah using Recovered Energy Generation...

Elephant Ivory Racket Linked to Westgate Mall Terrorists

We interviewed Karl Amman about illegal wildlife trafficking at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi about two years ago. Since then, increasingly violent poaching incidents...

Hong Kong Bans Shark Fin Soup and Bluefin Tuna

Sharks hauled from the Persian Gulf provide fodder for shark fin soup in Hong Kong, and the endangered bluefin tuna is popular there too. But now...

Iran Unveils Plans to Launch Persian Cat into Space, PETA’s Claws Out

Iran said it was going to send a monkey into space in 2011, but that didn't happen. Now a top space official has told...

Half of Tel Aviv’s Metropolitan Area Trash to be Used as Fuel

Hiriya just south of Tel Aviv went from being a teeming trash mountain to a renowned recycling center, and now it will also be...

Chipotle Takes on Big Food in Haunting Commercial, The Scarecrow

Eerie and beautiful, The Scarecrow is a powerful anti-factory-farming message served up in a new commercial that barely refers to what’s actually being pitched....

Qatar’s Al Jazeera America Puts US Climate Coverage to Shame

Recently launched by Qatar's Al Jazeera Media Network, Al Jazeera America has already made a splash for its no-nonsense climate change coverage - something...

Israel and Jordan Strike Brilliant Water Trade Deal

When the $10 billion Red-Dead Canal plan got the axe earlier in August, we discussed plan B for restoring some sense of water security to...

Qatar Solar Buys into Germany’s SolarWorld

Qatar Solar has purchased a stake in SolarWorld AG to give the firm a much needed fiscal boost. Called the BMW of solar panel producers,...

Palestinian Company Harvests Naked Sea Salt for Israeli Activist

Israeli activist Ari Leon Fruchter has launched a new Kickstarter campaign, but instead of getting Israelis naked with Spencer Tunic, this time he is...

Middle East Shipping Lands Prince Charles in Hot Water

Britain’s Prince Charles lectures long on climate change and the local food movement, but a recent discovery about one of his businesses suggests the...

Better Place EV Buyers are Late with Their Bill

Sunrise Ltd, the court-appointed new owners of Israel's Better Place electric vehicle company, now known as Green EV, is struggling to pay the company's...

The Absurdity of Selling Israel’s Private Water to the Highest Bidder

Chronic and even acute supplies of fresh water in Israel and other parts of the Middle East has resulted in over-dependence on desalination. Even...

Mediterranean Surveillance Crew Eyes Oil Spills from the Sky

It's hard to monitor vessels that pollute out at sea, so five aircrafts from Algeria, France, Italy, Morocco and Spain got together to keep an...

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Ancient Jewish New Year for Animals revived with global campaign against factory farming

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Canada’s healthcare became the world’s digital health laboratory. Now Europe is taking notice

Canada's healthcare system may be under pressure, but its decades-long experience with digital transformation is becoming a model for Europe and beyond. In an interview with Nordic's Alison MacDonald, Green Prophet explores why successful AI in healthcare depends less on software than on empowering clinicians, improving workflows and building resilient systems.

Jewish Climate Network founded so innovators don’t leave their identity at the door

Rather than retreating from climate change work, the Jewish Climate Trust organization has backed a new initiative designed to strengthen both climate action and Jewish community.

The Hidden Components Powering the Renewable Energy Revolution

A rooftop solar system looks simple: panels, an inverter, a battery and a few cables. But beneath that simplicity lies a bill of materials thousands of lines long, where tiny current sensors, magnetic cores, gate drivers, capacitors and connectors quietly determine efficiency, safety and lifespan. These overlooked components—not the solar panels themselves—are why today's residential solar systems are smaller, smarter and far more reliable than those of a decade ago.

Teen Farmerettes were Canada’s answer to Victory Gardens during wartime food shortages

It is a wake-up call to teen girls on TikTok planning their next Coachella outfit or trip to Sephora: During the Second World War, thousands of young men left family farms to enlist, but the crops still needed planting and harvesting. Ontario's government answered by recruiting high school girls, from ages 16 to 18, to spend parts of spring, summer and fall to fill in for the labor shortage. 

The Early Believers: Investors Who Backed SpaceX Long Before Its Record IPO

SpaceX’s 2026 IPO didn’t just mint billionaires—it revealed the many forms of conviction behind one of the most doubted bets in venture history.

From eco city experiment to global clean energy giant: How Masdar became the UAE’s renewable energy powerhouse

Masdar began as an ambitious eco city in the Abu Dhabi desert. Two decades later, it has become one of the world's largest renewable energy developers, financing billions of dollars in solar, wind and battery storage projects across the globe.
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