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Iran Sanctions Bolster Nuclear Ambitions, Pollute Environment

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...

10,000 Turks Gather To Protest Coal-Fired Power Plant

"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...

BrightSource Offers World’s Biggest Solar Storage Deal

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...

Aquate Group’s Floating Cover Could Save Israel’s Water

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,...

Possible End of Kyoto at Durban Threatens MENA Renewable Energy

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...

A Quick Look at Egypt’s Environmental Agenda Ahead of Elections

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...

Huge MedGrid Joins Giant Solar Desertec Plan

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...

Egypt’s Military May Be Using Lethal Teargas

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...

Cairo’s Fixers: Repairers That Are Helping Heal The Planet

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A Funeral for the Dead Sea in Jerusalem Today

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...

Watts to Water Brothers in Rural Pakistan

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...

Is This the Green Lebanon You’ve Dreamt About? (Video)

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Israel Corporation Subsidiary to Build 510 MW Hydro Project in Peru

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.

Your Neighbor’s Keeper When It Comes To Nuclear

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...

Moroccan Poor Leapfrog Fossil Fuels – Switch on the Sun

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...

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One of the World’s Biggest Candy Companies Became a Leader in Cocoa Science

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One of the World’s Biggest Candy Companies Became a Leader in Cocoa Science

Most people know Mars for M&M's and Snickers. Few realize the company has spent four decades researching cocoa flavanols and sustainable cocoa science. After six days testing CocoaVia with pioneers of Toronto's raw food movement, Green Prophet explores the surprising story behind one of the world's most researched cocoa supplements.

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The Lost Art of Jewish Herbalism: How Plants, Memory and Diaspora Kept a Living Tradition Alive

Jewish herbalism is experiencing a revival as educators like Naomi Spector uncover centuries of plant knowledge preserved through the diaspora. Blending the wisdom of Maimonides, Ashkenazi and Sephardi traditions, and remedies passed from generation to generation, this forgotten ecological heritage reveals how Jewish communities adapted to new landscapes while keeping their cultural identity rooted in the natural world.

Finding Your Sea Legs Aboard the Neptun of Marstal

The Neptun of Marstal is more than a restored Danish sailing ship. Operated as a non-profit sail-training organization, it invites people of all ages to swap screens for sails, learn traditional seamanship and discover how caring for the sea begins by experiencing it firsthand. Along the way, strangers become crewmates, old maritime skills are kept alive, and the voyage offers a powerful lesson in environmental stewardship, cooperation and the enduring value of learning by doing.

Canada’s Beluga Rescue Is No Free Willy. Those Whales Will Never Go Home.

Six beluga whales have begun leaving Canada's shuttered Marineland, but they aren't returning to the wild. Here's why the park closed and where the whales are going.

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Different Types of Hair Loss Treatments Explained

efore exploring treatments, it helps to understand why hair falls. Hair loss isn't one condition — it has different causes, and those causes affect which treatments actually work.

Dead Sea Scroll mystery may be solved by a calendar that lost touch with the seasons

The 364-day calendar did not disappear entirely. Instead, it may have survived as an ideal: a memory of perfect time at Creation and perhaps a calendar to be restored in the End of Days.
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