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Who needs a maid? Houseplants are powerful cleaners.

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Huge Dust Plume Covers the Red Sea

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Remote Saudi beach gets a makeover: would you book a beach holiday there?

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This Ramadan, drop unwanted weight with mindful eating – it works!

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10 refugees heading to Rio as first-ever nation-less Olympic team

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) last March defined a plan to create a team of refugee athletes to compete in the 2016 Rio de...

Has Zika virus come to Israel?

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Syria’s damask roses are dying

Used for perfumes, rose water; and for flavoring sweets like Turkish Delight, Syria's famed Damask Rose, or Damascus Rose, once championed by romanticists like William Shakespeare, is experiencing hard times due to the ongoing war in Syria.

EU decision will pull Monsanto weedkiller off market shelves

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Israel’s biggest green group plants a project in support of Syrian refugees

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Pesticides may increase nervous system diseases like ALS

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Fiery May heatwave is setting Israel ablaze

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NASA calls Middle East drought “worst in 900 years”!

A recent study released by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) concludes that the current drought that began in 1998 in the eastern...

Climate exodus facing the Middle East

The conflict in Syria happening now was predicted six years ago by water and climate scientists. New research from Germany says climate refugees from...

Landmark study: other people’s drugs enter our bodies through veggies and fruits

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