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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...

Jordan's Environment Society A Middle East Model for Environmental Protection

Countries in the Middle East should take notice that the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is making great efforts to improve Jordan's environment as well...

Lebanon Pours the Country's Sewage to the Sea Costing Millions and Harming the Environment

If those of us living in Israel think we have a problem with pollution and beach closures in the Mediterranean Sea, we should take...

Matteo's Vegan Dinner in Brooklyn is Animal-Friendly but People-phobic

While in Israel, I often read about the hip food scene in Brooklyn, New York. From home picklers to small-scale cheese artisans and...

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Adidas wanted to sell one shoe. Then it stepped into a global culture war

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Mantle8 takes its natural hydrogen hunt from the Pyrenees to Dubai

Mantle8 is taking its hunt for naturally occurring hydrogen from beneath the Pyrenees to the Middle East, opening a Dubai hub after raising €31 million. But finding hydrogen underground is one thing; proving it can be produced cheaply and at scale is another.

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Does Starbucks use lab-grown milk? Starbucks tested precision-fermented milk from Perfect Day in 2021, but is it hiding in your latte today?

Alien chemistry crashed through a roof in New Jersey

meteorite crashed through a New Jersey roof carrying ancient salts, organic compounds and amino acids. After a few too many visits to Ontario’s Crystal Cave — and my own mysterious fireball in the forest — I have questions about the alien chemistry falling around us.

Adidas wanted to sell one shoe. Then it stepped into a global culture war

Adidas Israel featured amputee runner Shalev Biton in its Single Shoe campaign, designed to let people who need only one shoe buy one instead of a pair. The local campaign has since sparked international boycott calls and an apology from Adidas.

Scientists make lead-free perovskite solar cells that can weather the elements

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Europe’s mountain plants are paying off an extinction debt

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