Dr. Michael Graber: My hope now is that that climate change efforts will follow [the Montreal Protocol's] success.In recent years, Israel has acquired a worldwide reputation for its research prowess in clean and green technologies. But the country’s efforts in …
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Israeli college students fortify troubled towns by moving in
In return for free tuition and low rent, members of Ayalim student villages volunteer their time to transform Negev and Galilee communities.
Israel’s EcoOcean charts the deep ‘green’ seas
Scientists once thought that most of our planet’s oxygen is produced in the heart of lush jungles and rainforests. Not so, says Michael Rosenfeld, program coordinator and scientist at EcoOcean – an Israeli non-profit organization that built and funds a …
Flying high at the Israeli ‘drone school’
Pilots from all over the world are converging on Elbit’s headquarters to receive training in remotely operating the company’s sophisticated drones.It was bound to happen. Israel’s Elbit Systems, one of the world’s top makers of unmanned aerial vehicles, has provided …
Women walk for peace in Israel’s Jordan Valley
Jewish, Israeli Arab, and Jordanian women join together to celebrate peace at the third annual walk of Women Building BridgesIt was a sight you don’t see very often in Israel – or anywhere else for that matter: 3,000 women from …
Israel offers US doctors training in emergency response
Dr. Raymond Rappaport of Redwood City participates in a drill during an emergency medicine course in Tel Hashomer, Israel. Photo by David Blumenfeld.”A lot of these things are not available in the United States. A lot of the medicine is …
Israel and Jordan team up to safeguard Red Sea resorts against pollution
The ‘Beam of Light’ can be seen in Aqaba, Jordan, across the bay from Eilat.Some issues are too large to be tackled within a single country’s political borders – and the environment is one of them. The problem of air …
Sharon’s legacy turns wasteland to parkland
‘The park’s mission is to raise awareness of the environment and of the need to recycle, as well as rehabilitating the mountain and turning it into a message to the young of how not to repeat the mistakes of our …
Israeli scientist proposes weakening hurricanes with micro-dust
The devastating Hurricane Katrina may not have been preventable back in 2005, but if a new concept developed in Israel to zap the strength from hurricanes proves functional, it could prevent future natural disasters from wreaking such extensive damage. According …
Jewish-Arab soccer team scores a victory with Israel’s Darfur refugees
Some of the guests from Darfur at the Hapoel Katamon-Mevasseret – Maccabi Kiryat Malachi game last week at Teddy Stadium.Adam Bashar rose energetically to his feet to applaud the soccer players dressed in red and yellow uniforms trotting onto the …
Israeli researchers focus on ‘an inconvenient truth’
Prof. Ilan Koren: Since humans have been emitting smoke, gases, sulphites and carbon, by a much larger order of magnitude, the properties of clouds have changed.If climate change wasn’t already on the international agenda, then the decision to award this …