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Environment & Climate Change

News, analysis and commentary from Israel and across the globe on Environment & climate change and its impact on weather, business, politics, rising sea levels, and the food we consume.

The Environment and Climate Change portal is supported by the Goldman Sonnenfeldt School
of Sustainability and Climate Change at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

 CHOOSING THE Hills: Hiking the Sataf in the Jerusalem Hills.

Knowing the Land of Israel part 1: The Jerusalem Hills

 Sperm whale.

A young whale's hazardous journey through the Mediterranean raises environmental concerns

 Dusty winds are part of a dust storm in Israel

Why are there so many dust storms in the Middle East?

 THE GRIFFON VULTURE in flight.

Saving the Israeli vulture: A lifeline for the biblical bird of prey

By ANAV SILVERMAN PERETZ
 DIVING THE artificial reef.

'Jerusalem Post,' Ben-Gurion University launch new environmental portal

Youths push a short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus), one of dozens which got stranded at a beach in Bangkalan near Surabaya, East Java province, Indonesia, February 19, 2021

Marine experts in Australia in race to save 140 stranded pilot whales

By REUTERS
 Owl brought for recovery at the Agamon Wildlife Rehabilitation Center (AWRC) in Hula Lake - KKL, April 9, 2024.

Owl injured in evacuated northern town is nursed back to health by KKL-JNF

 A man sorting bottles for recycling in Givat Shaul, Jerusalem, February 1, 2022.

Despite progress, 'Zero Waste Day' sheds light on Middle East's waste-producing habits

By VERONICA NEIFAKH/THE MEDIA LINE
An African desert warbler, spotted in Haifa, March 23, 2024.

Rare African warbler spotted on Haifa beach

 A bottlenose dolphin (Dolly) resting her jaw on a bar ready to test her sensitivity to an electric field.

Impact of ship noise on dolphins identified for first time with help of AI - Israeli study

 State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman

‘Functional stagnation:’ Comptroller exposes Israel’s climate crisis failures

 wo male bighorn sheep grazing on Wild Horse Island in Montana.

Feds bust Montana man for super-sheep semen scheme

 LOOKING OUT at the horizon from Chevra  Eco Farm.

Chevra Eco Farm: A green sanctuary in Israel made by immigrants

By BEN BRESKY
 Picturesque Lupine Hill in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood is adorned with thousands of vibrant purple flowers.

Blossoms of hope: The healing power of Israel's flowers

 Yad Lebanim Grove Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv's bold green revolution underway in efforts to preserve the city's natural urban sites

By Yuval Bengo
 Palestinians burn tires during a protest against Hamas in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on February 28, 2024

War to warming: Israel’s climate envoy says time to re-engage with crisis

  An aerial view shows the pier of a plant of Mekorot, Israel’s national water company located close to the national water carrier project, which in cases of emergency is able to pump desalinated water into the Sea of Galilee, January 23, 2023.

Combating climate change and protecting ecology in Israel

By ANTHONY PAMM
 Fire breaks out in the Kissufim forest on the Gaza border. This is suspected to be the result of an incendiary balloon sent from Gaza.

Republicans and climate change: What Pew Research Center surveys tell us

 Awards handed to the winners: Danny Weber, VP Business Development Electriq, Eliran Elimelech, VP Ecosystem Development Startup Nation Central, Baruch Halpert, CEO and Executive Chair of Electriq

Meet the 7 Israeli climate tech start-ups leading the charge with $1.3m. funding

 Two eagles pass off responsibilities for incubating their chicks.

Eagles in Nahal Og take care of eggs in 'shifts' to prepare for hatching

 Former Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg

Former environmental protection minister launches BGU climate research center

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