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The Battle for Israel's Palmachim Beach

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15 Cities Pledge to Cut Back on Emissions

Fifteen of the largest cities and towns in Israel have signed an international environmental resolution to cut down on greenhouse gases emissions, joining 800...

Al Gore to Visit Israel

Israel has lured climate Change evangelist Al Gore to the Holy Land. Come May, Gore is expected to drop in at Tel Aviv University to...

Bangkok Officials Investigate Israeli Water Technology

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Kids in Beit Shemesh schools--religious and secular alike--will soon be learning about environmental issues. A new initiative on the part of Sviva Israel, a...

Israel Number One In Middle East According to Yale and Columbia Environmental Performance Index

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Liquid Assets at Israel’s Watec Conference

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Be Vewy Vewy Quiet… I’m Hunting Smokas

The beginning of this year opened up a new hunting season, hunting smokers! According to Haaretz smokers beware! They’re out to get you! “It...

Tel Aviv Billboards Up Again? That Didn’t Take Very Long…

Barely two weeks after advertisers were forced to cover up billboards along Tel Aviv's Ayalon highway, as a prelude to taking them down altogether,...

Scaaary Air Pollution Video of Haifa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qkZCLg9TbM&rel=1Well it's not that scary, and a bit naive, but it does beg the question: what's really happening in Haifa? Israeli guys that we...

Can Only The Rich Save Our Planet?

Finance Minister Ronni Bar-On has presented, today, the proposals of the committee on green taxation to the government. The proposal suggests a sliding-scale taxation model based upon...

Cheesy Green Police Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uASd-doKOlk&rel=1We have never seen these "green police" in action, but we'd like to believe that they exist, if only in our dreams. This video...

A Spiritual Danger: Have A Nice A**

It was neat to see the billboards are off of Ilan Pivko's tower, in Tel Aviv today. The Ayalon Highway is pretty much free...

On Becoming a Green Fellow

The Porter School of Environmental Studies at Tel Aviv University is looking for a few good green men and women. Think you have what...

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Tigris River oil spill highlights Iraq’s environmental oversight and our addiction to oil

A fresh oil spill in the Tigris River, filmed by an Iraqi university student, has reignited concern over Iraq's polluted waterways. From ancient Mesopotamia to modern Basra, the country's dependence on oil has come at a steep environmental and human cost, with activists warning that unchecked contamination is putting ecosystems and public health at risk.

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Data centers in Space? Sophia Space and Apex plan on busing them in

Can data centers really be built in space? Pasadena-based Sophia Space is partnering with Apex to test the idea by launching modular AI computing systems into low Earth orbit in 2027. Using radiation-hardened compute TILEs cooled by passive radiative systems and mounted on scalable satellite buses, the companies aim to prove that edge computing can operate reliably in space. While challenges remain, the project represents an important step toward distributed orbital computing networks that could support everything from climate monitoring and pollution tracking to autonomous spacecraft navigation in an increasingly crowded orbital environment.

Mona Khalil, Orange House Project founder, sea turtle protector killed in Lebanon

Mona Khalil spent decades protecting Lebanon's sea turtles and coastal ecosystems. Her death in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hezbollah shines a light on a broader environmental tragedy unfolding across northern Israel and southern Lebanon. From damaged wetlands and disrupted bird migrations to threatened seed banks and endangered wildlife, the region's ecosystems are becoming casualties of a war with no clear end in sight.

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