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School’s In: Turkish Teachers Learn How To Teach Ecoliteracy

How should teachers incorporate environmental ethics and lessons on sustainability into their classrooms? That's the focus of a four-year educational ecoliteracy project -- Turkey's...

NASA Space Junk Falling – Wear Helmet Today!

It is expected to fall today: a dead six-ton satellite will hit earth today, NASA predicts. Where it will fall is anyone's guess. Iran,...

Egypt Declares a State of Emergency Following Oil Spill

Who needs terrorism when we've got oil spills? "The Mega Leisure Destination on the Red Sea" has sprung an oily leak so serious that the...

New Life Found In Dead Sea! (Amazing Photos)

New Life at the Dead Sea: How do they survive and what is their energy source is the next big question. All the attention...

Environmental Activist Beaten and Tortured In Iran

Amnesty International is calling for an investigation into a report that a female activist was tortured in custody following protests over Lake Orumieh's destruction...

Walk Off McDonalds at Masada – A Sacred Dead Sea Site

Zionists believe that the McDonalds at Masada, a sacred Jewish site, cuts to the heart of their strongest ideals.

Naked Israelis on Everyone’s Minds

Naked Israelis to the rescue. Mission: Save the Dead Sea. Hugging trees, saving whales, and starting recycling campaigns for environmentalists. Now, eco-activists from a...

The Red Sea is Getting Hotter Faster Than the Rest

As the Red Sea gets hotter, what will be the fate of its magnificent coral reefs? 1,000 Israelis dropped their drawers over the weekend -...

Wild Animal “Pets” Still Commonplace in the Gulf

This baby cheetah was found wandering the streets in Abu Dhabi The trafficking of wild animals for sale to rich and wannabe rich collectors in...

Dead Sea naked activism

This was more than just being about 1,000 people in the buff. This was about bringing attention to the cause of the Dead Sea and its rapidly impending demise. This was about waking people up and a call to action.

Israel’s Ramot Menashe Woodland New UNESCO Biosphere Reserve

Sclerophyllous forests in Ramot Menashe now a UNESCO biosphere reserve For such a small country, Israel has some very beautiful and unique natural landscapes and...

Dar Les Cigognes: Night “One” of Your 1001 Nights in Marrakesh

Stay at Dar Les Cogognes for a boutique-style rest in the exhilarating city of Marrakesh. Marrakesh is a thrill to travelers looking to access the...

Dubai Porsche Driver Walks Pet Cheetah on a Leash

This juvenile cheetah is paraded in front of several onlookers in the streets of Dubai.

Turkey’s Touristic Beach Towns: Sun, Sea — And A Little Animal Exploitation?

Hotels and photographers along Turkey's tourism-heavy southern coast are reportedly exploiting chimpanzees and other wild animals for profit -- but Turkish authorities say they...

Boycott Wine Until Vineyard No Longer Animal Deathtrap?

This mountain gazelle can be seriously injured or killed if it tries to reached fenced in vineyards in Israel's Judean Hills. Wineries like Barkan...

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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

Just 15 kilometers from Tzfat there is a moshav that was founded in the late 50s that was ideologically influenced by organic, vegetarian and vegan principles. My hostess at Ohn-Bar, the tzimmer where I stayed, explained that the people of Amirim were among the pioneers of Israel’s strong vegetarian movement.
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