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Perseid Meteor Shower Attracts Hundreds to Mideast Deserts

The show isn’t over yet. Sky gazers traveled to Mitspeh Ramon, a town on the edge of the Ramon Crater in the Negev desert this...

Distance Learning Provides Green Education Opportunities

6 ways you can get an environmental education online. Some of them are completely free. An unsustainable spike is driving up the cost of higher...

Rapid Electric Car Charger Comes to Masdar City

The Abu Dhabi government in cooperation with Mitsubishi industries has opened the region’s first  rapid electric vehicle (EV) charging station. The station is located in...

EcoBasalt’s Volcanic Rock Fabric to Clean Oil Spills

Volcanic basalt is a rock which can be turned into oil-absorbent fibers. A company named EcoBasalt was founded in Israel in February of 2012.  Its...

New Green OLED Lights Could be Printed on Plastic

An Israeli is part of a team to invent a new kind of “green” LED light called the OLED. If brought from theory to practice...

Better Air Cleans Sick Buildings With Probiotics

Turn sick buildings healthy with a probiotic air filter from Israel. Above, dust mites. Better Air of Rishon LeZion, Israel is using a new approach...

Arothron’s Underwater Compressed Air Storage Could Fill Gaps in the Grid

Israel’s Arothron gets inspired by the pufferfish for a novel type of underwater energy storage system using compressed air. Arothron was established in 2011 as...

Apple Admits Dropping EPEAT Eco Standard Was a Mistake

Apple product releases are  delayed in the Mideast shortening the supported product life in this part of the world. Apple also practices planned obsolescence. In an...

Leap-second Bug Consumes Megawatts of Electricity

Was it the leap-second bug that pushed America’s power plants beyond their capacity? A 61 second minute was added to clocks around the world on...

Does Wasted Groundwater Contribute to Rising Sea Levels?

Measuring sea levels in the face of global warming isn’t easy, but it’s important to understand on a global scale Can wasted water contribute to...
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