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International media diverted all of their attention to Israel as it fought fire all weekend. But hardly anyone noticed Lebanon had 120 separate fires blazing through the countryside. While the world watched Israel pull in every resource available to fight the dreadful Carmel fire that swallowed half of the country’s most important forest, Lebanon was […]
Egyptian negligence may have caused the unnecessary death of a German tourist yesterday. An illegal Australian sheep dump in the sea might be the cause. Just after authorities reopened the tourist area to snorkelers following three separate shark attacks last week, a German woman was attacked and killed in Sharm al-Sheikh yesterday. Last week three […]
View of the Israel Carmel Forest fire encroaching on the University of Haifa campus. Image credit University of Haifa An act of God, arson, or negligence? A lot of questions are being asked by Israelis as to why they needed to suffer the worst fire in the nations’s histrry this weekend – a fire that […]
Raptors and deer were among species saved from the Carmel Forest Wildfire 50,000 dunams of the Carmel Forest, or nearly half, have been destroyed in the massive wildfire raging in northern Israel since Thursday. The fire is under control but officials said Saturday that it could take dozens of years to rehabilitate the area.
Authorities erroneously killed two sharks not responsible for the Red Sea attacks last week Last week off the coast of Egypt’s tourist resort town Sharm al-Sheikh, three snorkellers were attacked by an Oceanic White Tip shark. Scientists claimed that such attacks are extremely rare for this species and sought to investigate the cause of its […]
It appears as though the Israel Carmel Fire sparked two cases of arson, stoking the flames even higher. After the first fire broke out in the Mount Carmel region, two additional fires in separate locations started consuming acres of forest land in Israel, investigators are reporting at a press conference. While the first large fire […]
Ancient farmers used indigenous knowledge to sustain communities at Avdat in the central Negev as many as seven thousand years ago. That wisom may hold the key to the future according to specialists. I visited Avdat this August on one of the hottest days of the year when temperatures soared well above 40 degrees. Then, atop the […]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUEqbLVfpGc&feature=fvsr[/youtube] A private American company has sent the world’s largest firefighting plane to help Israel fight the Carmel fire. The international community has poured out assistance to Israel as it struggles against the worst fire on record. Turkey, Greece, the United States, Russia and Britain are among thirteen nations that have demonstrated their support. As […]
The fire rages on in Israel’s Carmel Mountains, a nature reserve. With untold damage to wildlife and one of Israel’s only forests, Friday morning in Israel a wildfire that broke out yesterday at noon, still rages out of control, picking up speed as it rips through the western part of the Carmel Mountains teetering on […]
Carmel fire at sunset, as seen through the lens of a police photographer Israel’s worst forest and brush fire in modern history continues to rage on and at this writing, “is completely out of control by our combined fire fighting units” according to Haifa Fire Department spokesman Hezi Levi. Speaking to reporters of Israel’s Channel […]
Israel may lose one of its most precious nature reserves to wildfire ripping through the Carmel Mountains, killing people, animals and trees. “We have completely lost control of the fire,” Hezi Levy, a spokesman for the firefighting service in Haifa told Globes business newspaper an hour ago, speaking of the fire currently destroying a nature […]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cr5oGnVeYU&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]Believed to have been started by arsonists, a deadly fire is racing out of control in UNESCO-protected Carmel Mountain. People, and animals, are being evacuated. Death toll is at 40. Some 40 people trapped in a bus are known to have been killed and 45 more reportedly injured as a massive fire on Israel’s Mount […]
In three separate (and unusual) incidents, a white-tip shark attacks tourists off the coast of Sinai’s Sharm Al-Sheikh. I don’t think anyone who has watched the movie can enter a large body of salt water without the Jaws theme song thumping ominously at their amygdala. Human beings have a prehistoric terror of what they perceive […]
Something as big as a whale shark should be easy to track, but Dubai-based marine biologists learn they are actually quite elusive. It’s so tempting to attribute anthropogenic qualities to fauna. Take the whale shark Rhincodon typus, sometimes referred to as gentle giants, the largest fish to plow through tropical seas with its wide mouth […]
New images taken from the space shuttle, using radar, are revealing that 100,000 years ago, Egypt had a lake broader than the gigantic Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes in the US. New evidence of a once wetter Middle East comes from high above the earth, where we are able to peer back through […]