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Cell Phone Towers Can Help Predict the Next Big Flood

Hurricane Katrina: Phone home –– If you have a cell phone tower planted somewhere near your home or your kid's daycare, you'll probably think...

Algae Biofuel To Send Astronauts to Space? Israel’s Seambiotic Partners With NASA

Algae could be a viable source of biofuel if it can be produced efficiently. Read our recent story on Algaenesis. Now Seambiotic, an Israeli...

Israel's Cleantech 2009 Emphasizes Water Projects and Renewable Energy

Israel's 13th annual Cleantech exhibition on environmental technology and renewable energy projects is currently underway at the Israel Trade Fairs and Conventions Center in...

Drum Roll: Home to International Renewable Energy Agency IRENA Will Be . . . Masdar City

It could change the way companies make and distribute renewable energy technologies: We reported about the International Renewable Agency that convened in Sharm, Egypt...

X-Tend Shelf Life and Reduce Waste With StePac Degradable Plastic Packaging

A solution to keeping fruit and veggies fresh longer in your fridge, as well as to reducing the "islands" of plastic wastes now...

Palestinians Repair Crumbling Infrastructure to Weather Water Crisis

(A view of flood water in an olive grove in Beit Jala, near Bethlehem, last October. The filthy water killed about 30 olive trees....

Expanding the Role of Algae: Algaenesis

Algae biofuel is now being developed as a source of energy for the future, but really algae has been fueling society for a long...

Siemens Mulls Buying Israeli Solar Company Solel

German industrial giant Siemens is now involved in talks to purchase the Israeli Solel Solar Energy Ltd., according to an article published in Globes,...

Phone Home With Sunbeam Power Using Lebanon’s Alfa

Alfa, Lebanon's chief mobile phone service company, is now operating on solar energy to power its transmission network. The company recently installed its fifth solar...

What Slipped Through The Cracks, When We Measured Greenhouse Gases

Al Gore may have given us a frightening picture of climate change and our future, but now new research suggests that even his predictions...

Israel and Germany Launch Sustainable Irrigation Project in Ethiopia

Israeli NGOs, such as Earth's Promise, are involved with helping Ethiopian populations within the country (check out the Eco-Thiopia festival in Beer Sheva next...

Energy Recovery Inc Delivers Fresh Water to Dry Sharem al Sheikh

Those of you who have been to Egypt's eastern Sinai coast can vouch that even though the area is quite lovely,  it's also quite...

HCL CleanTech’s Cleaner Approach to Cellulosic Ethanol Production

Cellulosic ethanol has often been viewed as the class of ethanol with the most promise, as it converts agriculture and forestry wastes, city sewage...

Phoebus Energy Shifts The "Hybrid" Idea to Home Heating and Cooling

We've all heard about hybrid energy systems for cars (because we've read Karen's story about her family Prius); but now an Israeli company, Phoebus...

Rich Oil State Dubai Plans To Power Up With Solar Energy

Following on the heels of the much publicized Masdar City, the first carbon emissions free city in the world, Dubai (which likes to do...

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Leen Kawas and the Work of Carrying Promising Medicines Forward

EIT Pharma CEO Leen Kawas is advancing lonafarnib for chronic hepatitis D, showing how stalled late-stage drug programs can be revived and carried toward regulatory review.

The Financial Impact of Meta Glasses on Europe’s Eyewear Market

Smart glasses are changing the economics of eyewear by turning conventional frames into higher-priced technology products. What used to be mainly a sale built around frame design, lenses, prescription needs and brand preference is now also a sale built around cameras, audio, AI features, app support and connected-device setup.

Why Pest Control Has to Be Local: Mira Home on How Climate and Geography Change Pest Pressure Across America

Why pest control needs to adapt to local climate, moisture, building patterns and pest pressure rather than rely on one national treatment plan.

Brad Pitt walked the red carpet with rescue dogs. Why isn’t rescue just the default?

The film itself is about a Special Forces officer, played by Pitt, stranded in the Alaskan wilderness with his combat dog Odin after a plane crash. Odin is played by Uber, a highly trained German shepherd from a military and law-enforcement breeding line.

Beavers are moving into the Arctic, and they are rewiring the tundra

“Beavers effectively write their history into the landscape with each shrub they cut and every pond they create by damming streams,” said lead author Dr Georgia Hole, who carried out the research at Anglia Ruskin University and is now based at Durham University.

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Leen Kawas and the Work of Carrying Promising Medicines Forward

EIT Pharma CEO Leen Kawas is advancing lonafarnib for chronic hepatitis D, showing how stalled late-stage drug programs can be revived and carried toward regulatory review.

The Financial Impact of Meta Glasses on Europe’s Eyewear Market

Smart glasses are changing the economics of eyewear by turning conventional frames into higher-priced technology products. What used to be mainly a sale built around frame design, lenses, prescription needs and brand preference is now also a sale built around cameras, audio, AI features, app support and connected-device setup.

Why Pest Control Has to Be Local: Mira Home on How Climate and Geography Change Pest Pressure Across America

Why pest control needs to adapt to local climate, moisture, building patterns and pest pressure rather than rely on one national treatment plan.

Brad Pitt walked the red carpet with rescue dogs. Why isn’t rescue just the default?

The film itself is about a Special Forces officer, played by Pitt, stranded in the Alaskan wilderness with his combat dog Odin after a plane crash. Odin is played by Uber, a highly trained German shepherd from a military and law-enforcement breeding line.

Beavers are moving into the Arctic, and they are rewiring the tundra

“Beavers effectively write their history into the landscape with each shrub they cut and every pond they create by damming streams,” said lead author Dr Georgia Hole, who carried out the research at Anglia Ruskin University and is now based at Durham University.

Top 5 Free Data Recovery Software of All Time

There is an old rule around computers that most of us learn only after something goes wrong: the most valuable part of your laptop is rarely the laptop. It is your stuff and all the data you accumulated along the way: the photographs, documents, unfinished work and years of digital debris stored inside it.

Food system’s biggest waste may be the farmers we don’t see: Hugh Locke’s new book

Whole Earth Farming: Smallholders and the Great Regenerative Transformation by Hugh Locke is published by George Ronald in September 2026.

Artists warm up former Cold War radio headquarters in Berlin as PEOPLE Festival embraces collaboration and spontaneity

PEOPLE Festival returns to Berlin’s Funkhaus this October, bringing 180 musicians together for a week of collaboration, improvisation and more than 200 one-off performances.
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