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Oceanic White Tip Shark Kills Elderly Woman In Egypt

Egyptian negligence may have caused the unnecessary death of a German tourist yesterday. An illegal Australian sheep dump in the sea might be the...

Israel Carmel Fire – Taking Stock of How It Happened

View of the Israel Carmel Forest fire encroaching on the University of Haifa campus. Image credit University of Haifa An act of God, arson,...

Plans Underway to Save or Replant Trees Damaged in Carmel Fire

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...

Egyptian Park Authorities Killed Wrong Sharks After Red Sea Attacks

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...

Initial Israel Fire Sparks Suspected Cases of Arson

It appears as though the Israel Carmel Fire sparked two cases of arson, stoking the flames even higher. After the first fire broke out...

Indigenous Knowledge and Ancient Farmers at Avdat

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...

Evergreen Supertanker Arrives In Israel To Fight Carmel Fire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUEqbLVfpGc&feature=fvsr 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...

Israel Fire Still Raging Out of Control Friday Morning

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...

Worst Fire in Israel’s Modern History Continues to Rage Out of Control

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...

Israel Fire Update: 42 Killed, Beit Oren Village Wiped Out

Israel may lose one of its most precious nature reserves to wildfire ripping through the Carmel Mountains, killing people, animals and trees. "We have...

Israel’s Worst Fire in Modern History Kills 40 and Rages On In Bio-reserve

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cr5oGnVeYU&feature=player_embeddedBelieved to have been started by arsonists, a deadly fire is racing out of control in UNESCO-protected Carmel Mountain.  People, and animals, are being...

Three Russian Red Sea Snorkelers Attacked By White-Tip Shark

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...

Mysterious Female Whale Sharks Elude Marine Biologists

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...

Spacefaring Civilization Finds Evidence of Great Lake in Paleolithic Egypt

New images taken from the space shuttle, using radar, are revealing that 100,000 years ago, Egypt had a lake broader than...

One Muslim’s Mission To Make Africa Green Again

Muslim starts sustainable tree planting operation to make Ethiopia green once again. Visiting Ethiopia after a thirty year absence, Geshaw Tahir an Ethiopian-born Muslim...

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Ancient Jewish New Year for Animals revived with global campaign against factory farming

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Teen Farmerettes were Canada’s answer to Victory Gardens during wartime food shortages

It is a wake-up call to teen girls on TikTok planning their next Coachella outfit or trip to Sephora: During the Second World War, thousands of young men left family farms to enlist, but the crops still needed planting and harvesting. Ontario's government answered by recruiting high school girls, from ages 16 to 18, to spend parts of spring, summer and fall to fill in for the labor shortage. 

The Early Believers: Investors Who Backed SpaceX Long Before Its Record IPO

SpaceX’s 2026 IPO didn’t just mint billionaires—it revealed the many forms of conviction behind one of the most doubted bets in venture history.

From eco city experiment to global clean energy giant: How Masdar became the UAE’s renewable energy powerhouse

Masdar began as an ambitious eco city in the Abu Dhabi desert. Two decades later, it has become one of the world's largest renewable energy developers, financing billions of dollars in solar, wind and battery storage projects across the globe.
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