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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...

We Stand Corrected: Daniel Pourkesali From the Persian Gulf Organization On The Importance of Names

Reporting on a story about the coral monitoring stations in the Persian Gulf, Green Prophet mistakenly labeled the major Middle East waterway the Arabian...

Green Prophet of the Week: Avi Kuzi Is Israel's Animal Guardian Angel

Do Israeli animals in distress have a guardian angel? If a young man named Avi Kuzi has anything to say about this, they certainly do!...

Stephen Colbert on Israel’s National Bird

When Israel declared its new national bird, the hoopoe, Green Prophet was on the story. Little did we know that so was American fake...

How to save the turtles

Our dear friend Andreas Weil from EcoOcean sent us the YouTube link of the new ad created by the agency Shalmor Avnon Amichay/Young & Rubicam. The...

Searching For A Clean Stream In Israel, Or Anywhere

(A Christian woman about to be baptised in Israel's Jordan River.) Sunday was World Water Day, and lately with all the adverse publicity regarding the...

Beer Sheva's Earth's Promise Offers an Alternative Spring Break

For those of you familiar with the typical American college student spring break, you know that it generally entails transporting an Animal House environment...

Yossi Leshem Saves Birds and Pilots in Israel

The publicity surrounding the emergency landing of U.S. Air Flight 1549 in the Hudson River, was only the tip of the iceberg in regards to the growing dangers of collisions between aircraft and birds, particularly migratory waterfowl, at major airports around the world.

The Marvels Of A 2000 Year Old Olive Tree in Israel

The olive tree in this photo is reputed to be 2000 years old – give or take a century or so. It’s growing in a...

Monitoring Stations Installed in Qatar and UAE To Track Stressed Out Coral

(Snapshot of the WWF coral map of Qatar and UAE coral reefs). With worrying reports of coral death globally, with global warming to blame,...

Iran Battles Red Tide, A Soap-like Super Foam That's Killing Fish

In summer, Israelis battle jellyfish, an introduced species that came to the Mediterranean Sea via the Suez Canal. But that's nothing compared to what...

Praying for Rain in Jerusalem

Green Prophet's Ilana Teitelbaum recently wrote an article about Israel's water crisis at the Huffington Post. Rainstorms have been raging throughout Israel in the past...

Corals Get "Sexy" On The Sea Floor to Fight Global Warming

(A photograph of the female C. echinata coral, expelling its eggs into the water around it.) Research from TAU unlocks the secret of coral survival...

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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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