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Aqua Soft’s Drone Plane Collects Water From Air, Drops It As Rain

A hovering unmanned plane powered by solar energy that harvests water from the air and drops it to the ground as rainwater.

Tooth Enamel Biomimicry Inspires Lighter, More Fuel Efficient Planes and Spacecraft

It's been a mystery: how can our teeth withstand such an enormous amount of pressure, over many years, when tooth enamel is only about...

How Israel's NewTECH Is Watering The Economy

Water is fast becoming the new oil. Without it, nations starve and conflicts ensue, like the piracy off the Somali coast we've written about....

Every Day is Like Sunday Solar Energy

The 1980s pop icon Morrissey said that every day is like Sunday, silent and grey. But an Israeli solar energy company has taken the...

NATO Science for Peace Supports Desalination Water Project Between Jordan and Israel

The NATO Science for Peace Program and the Middle East Desalination Research Center (MEDRC) recently awarded grants to researchers at Ben Gurion University of...

Global Warming Effects in India Hit Jordan and Israel's Dead Sea Potash

 A recent article in Israel's Globes financial newspaper, explores how Israel's valuable exports of Dead Sea mined potash to India will be reduced this...

Voltaire's Switching Computers Onto Green Power

Computers need resources. Whether it's logging on at work, sending Tweets from the train station or powering big laboratory ideas, firing up all those...

Israel's Clean Tech Industry: A Broad Brush Overview

Water technology, solar innovation, Israel's electric cars: I'd originally written this story for ISRAEL21c a few months ago when we were planning on launching...

NASA Abandons Flying Cars for Greener Flight with a $1.5m Prize for Green Plane Innovation

Last month, after my search for green innovation in aviation turned up empty, I proposed that the aviation industry needed its own Steve Jobs...

Qatari TV Program "Stars of Science" Focuses on Environmentally Friendly Innovations

(Image from the final episode of Stars of Science: Contestants run to Bassam Jalgha after being announced winner. Courtesy of Porter Novelli) Stars of Science,...

Biofuels Spark Regional Cooperation Between Israel, Palestinians and Germany

Being oil-poor may be more of a blessing than a curse for both Israel and Jordan. A joint Israeli-Jordanian project-based on the production of...

Turkey Lands World Bank's First Smart Grid

Although Smart Grids (electric networks based on renewable energy) are going up in the US and Europe, the World Bank is only now investing...

Siemens On A Solar Streak With Investment News Around Arava Power

It's the second Siemans-Israel solar news in as many months: the German energy giant Siemens, according to the Israeli business newspaper Globes, is not...

Kaiima Doubles Chromosomes To Make More Plant Power

Biofuels are alternative energy fuels produced from living organisms or metabolic byproducts . If we could just find a more efficient way to unlock...

David Anthony from 21Ventures on the Future of Israeli Clean Technology

Many articles have been written claiming that Israel can become a leader in clean technology over the next ten years. Maybe, maybe not. Defining the...

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Atmospheric Water Generators won’t work until we create clean energy to power them

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Ozempic is changing our bodies. Could it shrink the economy too?

GLP-1 drugs are shrinking appetites and waistlines, but could they shrink our environmental footprint too? From fashion and food waste to lighter airplanes, packaging and transportation, Ozempic-era weight loss could have unexpected effects across the economy.

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Pacific Fusion is building a $1 billion fusion research facility in New Mexico, betting that enormous electrical pulses can help push fusion energy beyond the laboratory and toward practical clean power.

Europe’s circular fashion mandate in effect by 2030

Europe is forcing fashion to confront its waste problem. New EU rules ban large companies from destroying unsold clothing and are expanding producer responsibility for textile waste, pushing brands toward repair, resale, recycling and circular design.

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The roots of modern computing run through weaving. From Jacquard looms and Ada Lovelace to women programming early computers, London’s Softwear exhibition reveals the surprisingly tactile history behind our digital world.

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Mongolia put the world’s overlooked rangelands on the climate agenda at UNCCD COP17, where governments and investors backed new financing for land restoration, drought resilience and pastoral communities.
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