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Climate Change Kills 160 Syrian Villages

If we'd thought that talk about global warming in the Middle East should stay in the future tense, news from Syria suggests a lot...

Peace Cycle Takes Bikers Through West Bank

We've posted here before about a Walk About Love, a hike for Israel and a bike ride to benefit Israel's environment. This October, get...

Tour of Tel Aviv with Cities of Tomorrow Conference

(Kiryat Sefer resident and activist Miri Kupermintz on the park site. All photos by Daniella Cheslow) A tour of Tel Aviv organized last week by...

Hunt for Air France Flight 447 Brings Garbage Problem to the Surface

Brazilian naval personnel were astonished to discover that what they thought to be remains of the missing Air France flight 447 in the Atlantic...

UNESCO Biosphere Reserves Declared in Syria and Lebanon

Jabal Moussa, Jordan So we all know that the Middle East is biospherically fascinating, but at the ongoing meeting of the UN International Coordinating...

Photo: Sandstorm Strikes Israel

I remember the day when it rolled in early in May, or hit us rather, like a wall. Sandstorms are common in Israel and...

Boston Globe: Who wins and loses from wildland conservation?

Israeli nature advocates are proud of their efforts at both nature conservation and cultivating a love of hiking among the people. However, an article...

Subsidized Sustainable Food Tour in Israel in November

At Green Prophet, we often post on organic vegetables and dairy products being grown in Israel; this November two Jewish environmental organizations are...

Ronald Macintyre Excavates 'The Nature Of The State'

Reading has its own geography. I read this book The Nature of the State while I traveled back and forth from the West Highlands...

Join the Israel Teen Adventure this summer

What is the best way to visit Israel? By plane, by bus, or maybe by car? Derech Hateva believes the best way to see...

I interview Jacques Cousteau’s grand-daughter at the Dead Sea

She looks like him and was raised in an enviable way: her grandfather Jacques Cousteau (the legendary marine explorer we've written about here) taught...

James Laps Up Simon Barnes's Book 'How to Be Wild'

"The more we leave the non-human world behind, the less human we become: and the more fearful we become. It is not the thrilling...

El Salvador Copies Israel's National Forestry Model To Combat Environmental Destruction

There is only one nation in the world that has a net gain of trees over the past 100 years. While other countries, developing...

Can't Take The Heat of Global Warming? Rafael Reuveny Says Ecomigration Drastic Measure to Survive Climate Change

Why would a prominent Israeli-born professor at Indiana University decide to change his research emphasis from economics and political science to climate change and...

Increasing Khamsini or Sharav Heat Waves Could Signal Global Warming in the Middle East

For those of us who live in the Middle East, those hot dry heat waves known as khamsini (in Arabic) or sharav...

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Hydrophilis Rebreather: After the Penis Jokes and Shark Bait Memes, Oliver Isler Says His Underwater Dream Is Serious

The Hydrophilis rebreather is a new scuba system that could make diving safer and more fun.

AI data centers are triggering panic, instead of cleantech opportunities

AI may unintentionally become the economic engine that finally modernizes America’s aging grid. California is experiencing a massive AI data center boom, ranking 3rd in the U.S. with 227 operating centers and 54 more in development as of April 2026, according to Stanford.

Meet Seramic Materials from Abu Dhabi

Based in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, Seramic Materials was founded in 2019 by Dr. Nicolas Calvet and Dr. Jean-François Hoffmann, researchers working at the intersection of renewable energy and materials science. The company grew out of the Masdar Institute ecosystem and is supported by clean tech programs like The Catalyst, with early backing of around $150,000 and more than $2 million invested in research and development over time.

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Based in Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, Seramic Materials was founded in 2019 by Dr. Nicolas Calvet and Dr. Jean-François Hoffmann, researchers working at the intersection of renewable energy and materials science. The company grew out of the Masdar Institute ecosystem and is supported by clean tech programs like The Catalyst, with early backing of around $150,000 and more than $2 million invested in research and development over time.

24 7 renewable energy: how solar, wind, batteries and AI SaaS replace fossil fuels

A new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency based in Abu Dhabi makes something clear that many in the industry already suspected. When solar and wind are paired with battery storage, they can deliver reliable, round the clock electricity at costs that compete with, and often beat, fossil fuels.

A summer of sugar wax or time for laser treatments? The environmental answer

Green Prophet readers know we write a lot about hair. We have covered the halal and the haram sides of hair removal for Muslims. We have written about sugar waxing, Persian sugaring, threading, and the beauty secrets that came out of the Middle East long before salons started calling them trends. Our articles on sugar wax broke the internet a few times. 

Make paper mache with flowers to create stunning vase

There’s something quietly beautiful about what Rebloom Studio is doing, and it starts with waste. At wholesale flower markets, mountains of unsold blooms are tossed out at the end of each cycle. Perfect flowers, just not sold in time. Most of them are burned or dumped. Rebloom takes that moment and turns it into something else.
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