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Animals Cope With Climate Change At the Dinner Table

Some animals, it seems, are going on a diet, while others have expanding waistlines. It's likely these are reactions to rapidly rising temperatures due to...

Qatar Establishing Gene Bank of Local Animals and Plants for Conservation

In a step towards preserve the wealth of its national animal and plant populations, Qatar will be setting up a gene bank of local...

Commercial Fishing in Mediterranean Endangering Dolphins

Dolphins "trawling" behind fishermen's trawling nets are getting snared at sea. If you love fish, there is nothing like catch from the Mediterranean Sea....

The Most Effective PR Campaign in Israel's History: Protecting Wildflowers

During the celebrations for Israel’s 50th anniversary in 1998, Israel’s senior publicists were polled to name the most effective public relations campaign in Israel’s...

Israeli NGO Tevel B'Tzedek Helps Rectify Environmental Damage in Nepal

Tevel b'Tzedek, an Israeli-based non-governmental organization, defines itself as being "dedicated to creating a new generation of Israeli and international Jews engaged in social...

A Deadly Scorpion Provides a Safe Pesticide

Scorpions deliver a powerful, paralyzing venom — a complex cocktail of poisonous peptides — that immobilize animal prey on the spot. Some of the...

"Leggy" New Spider Found in the Sands of Samar, the Largest in the Middle East

A new Middle East spider species, Cerbalus genus, is discovered in Israel. Its future uncertain. It's like hearing about a wedding and a funeral...

Lebanon's Lions, Tigers and Bears Take the Heat

Lebanese animal rights' activists report serious abuse of mistreated circus animals on ring circuit from Egypt, Jordan, Syria to Lebanon. Abuse of circus animals comes...

Cross-border Conservation Efforts Could Save Billions in the Mediterranean Region, New Study Finds

Billions could be saved if Mediterranean countries combined conservation efforts, finds new Israeli-Australian study. Picture via Hebrew University. We already know that rodents suffer...

Human Coconut Waste Becomes Perfect Abode for Octopus

In this Dec. 10, 2009 photo taken near Indonesia and released by Museum Victoria, a veined octopus, Amphioctopus marginatus, hides in a coconut shell....

A Farmer's Story on Natural Sheep Grazing for the Jericho Date Company

At the Jericho Date Company Bedouin sheep, not pesticides, keep the weeds at bay. This story is written by Ronley Konwiser, a new farmer...

Saudi Oil Company Relocates Corals From Path of Pipeline

A coral reef facing certain destruction was moved from harm's way. Will it survive? We care about corals, an indicator species to global warming, and...

Corals Feeding On Jellyfish: A Strategy To Deal With Climate Change?

Corals caught munching on jellyfish. Are they adapting to climate change? It would seem that jellyfish, often referred simply to as "jellies" wouldn't have any...

Why Israeli Rodents Are More Cautious Than Jordanian Ones

Modern agriculture practices in Israel have caused population shifts in animal species. Is a border line simply a virtual line appearing on the map? If...

Teva Learning Center Combines Environmental and Spiritual Awareness With An Eye to the East

A North American Jewish environmental awareness center is expanding its programs in environmental education to make Jewish students more aware of the need to...

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Two People, One Dataset, and a Disagreement Nobody Can Settle

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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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.

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Leen Kawas and the Work of Carrying Promising Medicines Forward

EIT Pharma CEO Leen Kawas is advancing lonafarnib for chronic hepatitis D, showing how stalled late-stage drug programs can be revived and carried toward regulatory review.

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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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