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Jordanian and Israeli Scientists Collaborate to Study and Protect the Gulf of Aqaba

The Gulf of Aqaba (also known in Israel as the Gulf of Eilat) is an important Middle Eastern body of water.  The 99 mile...

Israel Pioneering Use of "Bottled" Solar Energy Has Many Following Suit

 Israeli solar energy companies such as Solel Solar, Aora, Ormat technologies, and a host of others are now world leaders in the development of sun...

2009 World Water Week Honors Young Turkish and Israeli Innovators

World Water Week, an annual meeting in Stockholm about the world's most urgent water-related issues, took place this year between August 16-22.  Organized by...

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

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How Israel's NewTECH Is Watering The Economy

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Every Day is Like Sunday Solar Energy

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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...

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Amman’s traffic crisis is about more than cars. It’s about how we think

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