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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...

Put Away Your Snowboard. Lebanon’s Slopes Are Melting

Climate change ruins all the fun. Higher temperatures have cut the skiing season in half. Lebanon's citizens were not dealt an easy life. Their cultural...

Interpol Gets Tough On “Green Crimes”

No more Mr. Nice Guy! Interpol intends to step up regulation of illegal wildlife trade and other environmental crimes. What eventually became The International Criminal...

Oil Exploration In Iran’s Little Africa?

Is nothing holy anymore? The Iranian Government rubber stamps oil exploration in the country's most important national park. The Iranian government has decided to start...

Bluefin Tuna Debate Reaches Towering Heights in Paris, Again

Greenpeace calls on ICCAT to close down the Mediterranean Bluefin Fishery at Paris conference. The Japanese aren't going to let the bluefish tuna resume its...

Scientists Dig Into Dead Sea To Provide Earth Clues

Scientists are coring into the Dead Sea floor to reveal more about regional climate change and earthquakes over time. Five hundred thousand years of...

Exploring the Middle East the Old Fashioned Way, On Your Own Two Feet

Use the heel-toe express to wander through Jordan, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine. The Middle East is a pretty amazing place (just ask any of the...

Egyptian Activists Claim Eid Animal Slaughter Is Haram

These are just a few of hundreds of sheep that were inhumanely slaughtered in Egypt for Eid. Similar to the anti-spirit of Christmas shoppers (but...

7 Eco and Spiritual Wonders of the Middle East (SLIDESHOW)

We've only got one life, and one planet. Time to get off your armchair folks and learn a little more about your planet. Green...

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Two people can look at the same sustainability dashboard and reach different conclusions. The problem is not necessarily the data, but whether anyone can trace how the number was produced.

Arabia Suburbia was adapted from the American blueprint for suburban living

Walk through almost any Saudi city today and one form dominates residential streets: the detached villa, sitting on its own plot, separated from its neighbors, usually surrounded by a wall and reached by car. It feels thoroughly Saudi. But much of the architectural DNA of the modern Saudi house comes from American suburbia.

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Was the Flydubai cockpit emergency an attempted terror attack — or a pilot in crisis?

What happened inside the cockpit of flydubai Flight FZ1073 on Wednesday morning is still under investigation, but the story has become considerably more disturbing since the first reports of a “fight between pilots.”

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Leen Kawas and the Work of Carrying Promising Medicines Forward

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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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