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A new round of sanctions that further isolate Iran financially and politically is likely to bolster nuclear ambitions and keep pollution levels high. Iran has...

"Let our lovely Gerze stay lovely," reads the banner. "We don't want a thermal power plant to come to our Gerze..." On Saturday, the Turkish...

Another world's first for the Israeli-born solar power giant that pioneered solar thermal. BrightSource Energy announced this week that they could chop down the size...

Israel's desert climate makes water a rare treasure, but even as the country takes extreme measures to keep fresh water flowing to its citizens,...

CDM funding for renewable energy in emerging nations is endangered in Durban, South Africa With the increasingly likely non-renewal of the Kyoto Accord after 2012...

Before now, the environment has been glaringly absent from Egypt's political agenda, but our friends over at Almasry Alyoum have compiled a fantastic list...

In a marriage made in renewable energy heaven, the two most ambitious energy plans in the world have joined forces. Today, Desertec and Medgrid signed...

Many people fear that the Egyptian military is using a lethal new brand of teargas to dispel protestors in downtown Cairo. During the last two...

Superior repair skills in developing nations mean that broken electronics can be mended and reused – a much greener alternative to recycling A couple of...

We've seen naked people bare all for the Dead Sea, and a pledge by the Israel Chemicals Corp to pay billions in damage to...

Three brothers working in Pakistan's remote Chitral communities are helping provide green electricity for 45,000 homes. Their micro hydro-electricity projects, 70 up and running to...

Cars, pollution, and the uniqueness of Lebanon can't be forgotten, according to ironic statements by designers, business people, actors and writers in this documentary...

Israel Corporation subsidiary Inkia Energy has signed an engineering procurement contract for the construction of a huge 510 MW hydro-electric project in Peru. Its Cerro del Águila Hydroelectric Power Plant will be located in the province of Tayacaja. Peru is a country that already gets 48% of its electricity from hydropower, which depends on water at elevation for its operation. Peru's Energy and Mines Ministry, Pedro Sanchez said in a press release that the project is one of three hydroelectric plants it was seeking tenders for building and operating, that will require a combined investment of $1.7 billion.

Israelis discuss the problem of getting nuclear neighbors. In a small region like the Middle East, a single country’s decision to build nuclear power can...

163,000 Moroccans who previously had no access to electricity are going solar, thanks to Tenesol. The world's poorest two billion people have no access to any...