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Israeli Hotel Owners Fear Diversion Of Dead Sea Tourism To Jordan

View from Israel to Jordan; hotel owners fear that years of construction projects will send tourists to the other side. The discussions over an appropriate...

Shale Company Responds To David de Rothschild’s Oil Shale Concerns

Responding to David de Rothschild's concerns, IEI attempts to convince Lord Jacob Rothschild that oil shale is good for Israel. Read all about in...

Reponse To Treehugger’s Pablo: Don’t Forget Ski Dubai’s Water

Can you guess where this winterland is located? In Dubai! In the middle of the desert. In a recent post, Pablo from Treehugger (a...

Dick Cheney Accused Of Bribing For Nigerian Natural Gas Project

Dick Cheney is on the board of Genie Energy which owns 89% of Israel Energy Initiatives, the company accused of operating a less-than-transparent oil...

Oil & Wine Don’t Mix: Over 1,000 Israelis Protest Oil Shale In Adullam

Bikers in central Israel. The sign on the front right draws attention to potential impact of oil shale exploration on local industry: A barrel...

More Leaks: US Secretly Paid Russia $800,000 To Remove Libya’s Highly Enriched Uranium Before Disaster

After feeling humiliated at a UN conference last year, a petulant Muammar Gaddafi risked a nuclear environmental disaster. Last November, seven casks of highly enriched...

Turkish Man Fights For His Rights- As A Garbage Collector

Mr. Mendillioglu calls himself a recycle worker, and has a periodical in which he and his posse write about the trials and tribulations particular...

Utility-Scale Solar Projects Become a Casualty of Republican Hostage-Taking in US

The extension of Section 1603 cash grants for large-scale solar developments in the US - tucked into the tax bill - were dealt...

$500 Billion Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Main Barrier To Renewable Energy

Mr. Amin claims that government subsidies given to the fossil fuel industry impedes serious growth of the renewable sector. On Sunday, Israel made a public...

Obama Tried to Get Saudis on Board at Copenhagen, Wikileaks Reveals

ClimateWire has revealed that leading up to the UN meeting at Copenhagen last December, the Obama administration leaned hard on the Saudis to get...

Interview With American Oil Shale Expert Jeremy Boak

The Director of the Center for Oil Shale Technology and Research (COSTAR) talks to Green Prophet about the benefits and detriments of oil shale...

Three Employees Killed In Haifa Oil Refinery Gas Leak

Three Oil Refineries Ltd. employees killed as a result of "negligence?" An explosion at Israel's largest oil refinery resulted in a gas leak that killed...

Is Israel’s Oil Shale Pie Big Enough To Shift Oil Politics?

Rupert Murdoch announced that Israel's oil shale could potentially shift the international oil dynamic. A 2005 USGS survey presents a less optimistic view. With the...

Gore Says Oil Shale is “Utter Insanity” (VIDEO)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0sJm5CDXCc&feature=related As a quick follow-up to the new oil shale pilot about to be conducted in Israel, here is a video of Al Gore saying...

Tiny Nation With Expertize in Rising From the Ashes of War Gives Help to Palestine

The Japanese International Cooperation Agency is finalizing "a corridor for peace and prosperity"so the PA can bypass exports via  Jordan. Solar power is...

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Japan wants to build a solar panel ring around the moon

Unlike solar power on Earth, which is limited by night cycles, weather, and seasons, the Moon offers something close to uninterrupted exposure to the Sun. By placing solar infrastructure in orbit or along the lunar surface, engineers could generate continuous clean energy at a scale that may exceed global electricity demand,  the Japanese scientists say.

African kids born in these Star Homes are less likely to die

What the Star Home demonstrates is something bigger: that health can be built into infrastructure. Instead of relying only on healthcare systems, communities can reduce disease at the source—through smarter design.

Art from Oman at the Venice Biennale

Oman is returning to the Venice Biennale with Zīnah, an immersive installation by artist and curator Haitham Al Busafi that transforms a traditional form of horse adornment into a large-scale sensory experience.

Korean researchers create battery from greenhouse gases

Professor Ji-Soo Jang, in collaboration with Professor Taekwang Yoon of Ajou University and Professor Hansel Kim of Chungbuk National University, has developed a novel energy device that generates electricity during the process of capturing greenhouse gases.

SunZia comes online and America’s 11B, and largest renewable project begins wind power

The impact is already being felt. California has broken its wind generation record multiple times in recent weeks as SunZia begins feeding electricity into the grid. It’s a glimpse of what a renewable-powered future could look like when large-scale infrastructure finally comes online. Can we start saying goodbye to Saudi Aramco and Arabian Gulf oil? 

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Japan wants to build a solar panel ring around the moon

Unlike solar power on Earth, which is limited by night cycles, weather, and seasons, the Moon offers something close to uninterrupted exposure to the Sun. By placing solar infrastructure in orbit or along the lunar surface, engineers could generate continuous clean energy at a scale that may exceed global electricity demand,  the Japanese scientists say.

African kids born in these Star Homes are less likely to die

What the Star Home demonstrates is something bigger: that health can be built into infrastructure. Instead of relying only on healthcare systems, communities can reduce disease at the source—through smarter design.

Art from Oman at the Venice Biennale

Oman is returning to the Venice Biennale with Zīnah, an immersive installation by artist and curator Haitham Al Busafi that transforms a traditional form of horse adornment into a large-scale sensory experience.

Korean researchers create battery from greenhouse gases

Professor Ji-Soo Jang, in collaboration with Professor Taekwang Yoon of Ajou University and Professor Hansel Kim of Chungbuk National University, has developed a novel energy device that generates electricity during the process of capturing greenhouse gases.

SunZia comes online and America’s 11B, and largest renewable project begins wind power

The impact is already being felt. California has broken its wind generation record multiple times in recent weeks as SunZia begins feeding electricity into the grid. It’s a glimpse of what a renewable-powered future could look like when large-scale infrastructure finally comes online. Can we start saying goodbye to Saudi Aramco and Arabian Gulf oil? 

Married People Have Lower Cancer Risk, But the Reason is Complex

According to the research, cancer risk was 68% higher in never-married men and 85% higher in never-married women.

40 more migratory animals need protecting, warns UN group

The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), governments agreed to extend protection to 40 more migratory species, from cheetahs and striped hyenas to snowy owls, giant otters, and great hammerhead sharks. Too many of them are slipping toward extinction .

When peace returns, will we rediscover Saudi Arabia’s mud-brick soul?

When the region settles after the American war with Iran, and it will, American and European travelers will come back. Not just for spectacle or headline projects, but for places that feel real. Places that haven’t been engineered to impress and which get into your soul. We predict that visitors to Saudi Arabia will want to see places like Rijal Alma.When the region settles after the American war with Iran, and it will, American and European travelers will come back. Not just for spectacle or headline projects, but for places that feel real. Places that haven’t been engineered to impress and which get into your soul. We predict that visitors to Saudi Arabia will want to see places like Rijal Alma.
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