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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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Pride in the Middle East: Stories of Courage, Creativity and Community

What does Pride mean in a region where acceptance can never be taken for granted? From refugee dancers and artists to entrepreneurs, athletes, and environmental changemakers, these are seven Green Prophet stories that celebrate the freedom to be yourself.

Canada’s forests can’t carry the world’s carbon emissions

Diminishing periods of snow cover in northern forests, shortened by climate change, are poised to disrupt a delicate balance in some of the planet’s most climate-sensitive regions – according to new research from McMaster University, VU Amsterdam, and the Woodwell Climate Research Center.  

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Pride in the Middle East: Stories of Courage, Creativity and Community

What does Pride mean in a region where acceptance can never be taken for granted? From refugee dancers and artists to entrepreneurs, athletes, and environmental changemakers, these are seven Green Prophet stories that celebrate the freedom to be yourself.

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What is holistic dentistry?

A recent study of graduating dental hygiene students in the United States suggests there is a knowledge gap. Researchers found that 42% of respondent students were unfamiliar with holistic dentistry, while 60% did not feel comfortable discussing it with patients. Yet nearly half believed the topic deserved greater attention in dental hygiene education.

Israeli Hydrogen Startup H2Pro Are Trying to Solve Clean Energy’s Hardest Problem

The company has attracted backing from major investors including Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the climate fund founded by Bill Gates, along with industrial partners such as Sumitomo, ArcelorMittal, and Temasek, a multi-billion dollar company that owns Singapore airlines. H2Pro has raised more than $100 million USD and is moving from pilot projects toward commercial-scale deployments.

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