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Palestinian Speed Sisters Make Arab Women Top-Ranked

Checkpoints set up by the Israeli military and social expectations don't stop members of the Middle East's first all-women racing team as they speed between the cities of the West Bank in high-octane car races.

Dubai to Overtake Heathrow as World’s Largest Airport

Dubai International Airport (DXB) will overtake Heathrow as the world’s biggest international airport by 2015. What's the environmental impact of the United Arab Emirates' (UAE)...

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They took their pilot run from Europe to Morocco, now the Swiss solar plane will fly across America. Sometime next summer, an airplane with...

Happy 2013! A Good Year for Electric Cars

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Egypt’s Natural Gas Push Does Little to Curtail Murderous Air Pollution

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Will Radiation Danger Spoil Israel’s Electrified Train?

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Qatar Airways Praised for its Natural Gas/Biofuel Push to the Skies

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New Environmental Strategy On The Table In Israeli Elections

  On Thursday, Dec. 20, Tzipi Livni’s new party, The Movement, stated that environmental reforms will be key components of their platform in the January...

Spiffy New Tramway Connects Casablanca’s Hot Spots

King Mohammed VI rode with French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault and head of Moroccan government Abdelilah Benkirane on Casablanca's spiffy new tramway during its...

Better Place EV Company Betters its Business Model?

Israel's electric car concept company Better Place has assured media that the company is able to secure investment to continue its mission of pushing...

Tiny Electric Vehicle Rental Program Could Reduce Tel Aviv Pollution

The Tel Aviv municipality is considering a plan to rent out small electric vehicles on a short term basis to cut down on air...

Israeli Fuel Company Tries Out Gasoline – Green Methanol Fuel Mixture

A woman fills up car in Haifa with methanol and gasoline fuel mixture.  More bang for her buck? Photo: Haaretz/David Bachar Alternative car fuel mixtures...

Baran Group Anxious Over $14 Million Better Place Debt

Inside a Better Place batter switching station: an idea born too soon? The fortunes of the Better Place electric car and service network company, which...

Eco-Hybrid Car From Qatar Unveiled During Climate Talks

Counteracting overwhelming criticism leveled at Gulf nations for their lack of environmental accountability, the Gulf Organisation for Research and Development (GORD) unveiled a low-emission, lower fuel...

It’s California or Bust for Better Place’s eTaxis

The Better Place electric transportation company was founded in California's silicon valley, not far from where the Tesla electric car company began. But while...

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Black fathers live longer than non-fathers, new study

Researchers found that fatherhood was associated with lower rates of early death among Black men, while early fatherhood was linked to poorer long-term health outcomes.

Dan Zaslavsky’s energy tower dream is rising again in Iran and China

The Energy Tower idea never made the leap from drawings and engineering studies to full-scale construction. But nearly two decades after most people stopped talking about it, the concept is quietly evolving in two unexpected places: China and Iran. The concept let dreamers dream and doers do - figuring out more pleasing designs and engineering.

A visit to Amirim, Israel’s first all-vegetarian village in the Galilee

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