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United Nations Call for a Nuclear Free Middle East to Stop Iran

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From leaps in the bronze age to massive droughts that wiped out cities, civilizations we learn from history, depend on water. We need to...

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Netanyahu 'wins' a Black Globe Award as a statement that he should improve his environmental reform plan, and other organizations win positive Green Globes. Earth...

Israel Defense Ministry Stalls on Sewage Treatment

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Forbes Names Israel's Shari Arison As One of the World's Greenest Billionaires

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Greenpeace Mediterranean Demands that Nestle-Osem Give the Orangutans and Rainforests a Break

Greenpeace activists won't give Nestle-Osem a break. They say that the Indonesian rainforests and orangutans are more important than Kit Kat bars. Greenpeace activists and...

Nets of Peace Attempts to Alleviate Israeli-Palestinian Conflict with Environmentally Sustainable Fishing

Five graduate students come up with a plan for conflict resolution and sustainable fishing in Gaza. A creative team of five graduate students currently studying...

Environmental Economics? Voice of the Nobelists

Yosef explores Paul Klugman's environmental economics essay in the NY Times. Klugman and Gore's words, Yosef finds, may influence decision-makers to slow the gallop...

SDE Makes Wave Power in China Where It's Completing 1 MW Power Plant Deal

Sunnier days for smog-ridden China ahead? The next wave in China may be clean energy culled from the sea. Image via ivanwalsh The Israeli...

Brazil and Israel to Collaborate on Water

They've tried the peeing in the shower campaign. Now Brazil looks to Israel for water technologies. Can we hope for a Gisele Bundchen (above...

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