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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...

Abandoned Building Becomes Urban Bat Habitat in Israel

Sometimes the urban environment is an ideal place for wild animals. Here's an example: In 2006, Petach Tikva's two hospitals merged to form the...

Can the Cedars of Lebanon Survive Climate Change?

"So Hiram, King of Tyre, gave King Solomon timber of cedar and timber of cypress according to all his desire."-Book of Kings vs. 24 A...

Permaculture and Green Communal Living Through Eco-Israel

Last year's Eco-Israel group on a trip to the North. Photo courtesy Naomi Katz. Although winter has come to Israel belatedly in the season's heaviest...

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Does Starbucks use lab-grown milk? Here’s what we found

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

Scientists have developed a “raincoat” for lead-free tin perovskite solar cells, helping them withstand air, moisture and heat while maintaining high efficiency.

Europe’s mountain plants are paying off an extinction debt

Europe’s mountaintops may look richer in plant life, but rising species numbers are masking the disappearance of alpine specialists as temperatures climb.

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Does Starbucks use lab-grown milk? Here’s what we found

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

Scientists have developed a “raincoat” for lead-free tin perovskite solar cells, helping them withstand air, moisture and heat while maintaining high efficiency.

Europe’s mountain plants are paying off an extinction debt

Europe’s mountaintops may look richer in plant life, but rising species numbers are masking the disappearance of alpine specialists as temperatures climb.

AI is finding cancer tumors faster, but this jury is out on whether outcomes are being impacted

Could AI see breast cancer before the human eye can? UCLA researchers find that artificial intelligence may help detect missed cancers and flag women at higher risk, but important limitations remain.

Barilla eats Goodles and the health food mac and cheese gets an Italian upgrade

Barilla has acquired Goodles, the protein- and fiber-packed mac and cheese brand backed early by Gal Gadot. Can nearly 150 years of Italian pasta expertise make Goodles taste as good as its nutrition label looks?

How skinny medicine is reshaping the fashion industry, an interview with Katie Jones

GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic are changing more than waistlines. Fashion researcher Katie Baker Jones explains how weight-loss drugs could reshape clothing sizes, body positivity, textile consumption and the fashion industry.
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