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Dead Sea Mining Company Plans Dubious Merger With Canadian ‘Natural Resource’ Firm

An Israel Chemicals Dead Sea mining plant; Photo by Haaretz/Ofer Vaknin Despite the recent heavy rains and flooding in Israel that helped replenish water in...

Istanbul Municipality Knits Enormous Sweater for Energy Conservation

All over the Middle East and North Africa, governments are feeling the energy pinch, and each has a different solution. Morocco and Algeria are...

Israeli Soldiers Harlem Shake Their Way Into Prison

Dancing is good for you, but the Harlem Shake is a cringe-worthy global phenomenon that's spawned a thousand epic fails: the YouTube dance craze's been...

Why Syrian Refugees Burn Crude Oil and Risk Health to Stay Warm

Tomato and potato soup being cooked on an open fire at Qah Camp for displaced Syrians. Camp officials say they are hoping they will...

Export Oil, Import Water = Risky Economics for Middle East

Water scarcity has already become a fact of daily life for Egyptians The world’s driest region, the Middle East* and North Africa (MENA), is getting...

MENASOL in Dubai is for Middle East CSP and PV Solar Energy

Want to find sunny Middle East solar opportunities? Think short term investments, and know that higher risks mean bigger rewards, says Belén Galled who talks about...

Turkey’s “Nature Law” Will Cause More Environmental Degradation, Activists Warn

"Polluting nature is your problem, your law is a lie" and "Withdraw the Nature Law" read signs from protests last weekend in Ankara. On Sunday,...

Golan Heights Slated for Oil and Gas Drilling…and Environmental Damage?

With everything else, this Hamat gader croc may have to put up with oil well drilling as well The Golan Heights, that disputed piece of...

The Sperm Smugglers From Palestine

While tunnel smugglers in Gaza get blown out by sewage flushed into the tunnels from Egypt, Palestinian prisoners have found a new commodity to...

Egypt Flushes Out Gaza Tunnel Diggers With Sewage!

Besides the really terrible ew factor, the consequences for the environment are as equally yuck: the Egyptian army is looking to stall and stop...

Keep Focused, Green and Relevant With Newsletter Programs

Before Green Prophet signed up for iContact, a fee-based email marketing email newsletter company, we tried to do it on our own. It was a...

Small American Farmer Sends Monsanto Seed Patents to Supreme Court

Vernon Hugh Bowman, farmer vs Monsanto, billion dollar seed and biotech company. It sounds like something from a book about the perils of the future, a...

Could Ethiopia’s Geothermal Exploration Relax Dam Plans?

Given that 85 percent of the country's residents lack access to electricity, it is no surprise that Ethiopia has pursued an aggressive hydropower plan....

Turkish Conglomerate Plans Undersea Pipeline To Import Israeli Gas

The Zorlu Group, one of Turkey's biggest business conglomerates, has its eyes on another behemoth: Israel's largest gas field, the Leviathan. Under a new plan...

NASA Watches Underground Fresh Water Sea Vanish from the Middle East (VIDEO)

Sound the alarms? Where has Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq's underground freshwater sea gone? NASA's imaging technology recently brought some bad news about Mideast air...

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How to Balance Convenience and Sustainability During a Big Move

Long moves are priced by weight and space, and a heavier truck burns more fuel over the same miles. So every box you leave behind cuts the bill and the emissions at the same time.

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The most important step is the one nobody enjoys. Six weeks out, walk the house room by room and decide what has earned a place on the truck. Anything you wouldn’t pay to ship is moving out of habit.

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Oil Spill Cleanup Crews Face Hidden Health Risks 

Oil spills grab headlines for black beaches and struggling wildlife. Fewer stories follow the people who scrub those shores. Workers and volunteers often spend days breathing fumes and touching tar. Their health matters as much as the coastline.

Walk of Water offers $9,000 for water stories that nobody sees

The 2026 Walk of Water Photostory Contest is offering $9,000 in prizes for photographers documenting the hidden side of water, from wastewater and pollution to sanitation workers, public health and clean-water solutions.

Kids plant mangroves in Ajman, adding 45 more trees to the UAE’s coastal forests

Twenty-six students planted 45 mangrove saplings at Al Zorah Beach in Ajman, joining a much larger Gulf-wide push to restore mangrove forests and protect vulnerable coastlines.
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