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 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
Man in nature

Study finds being in nature lowers risk of osteoporosis

 Ellen Bernstein, 'birthmother of Jewish environmentalism,' who died Monday night.

Remembering Ellen Bernstein, 70, the ‘birthmother’ of Jewish environmentalism

By SHIRA DICKER/JTA
 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

 Cars drive as smoke and fire rise from wildfires in a location given as Texas, U.S., in this handout picture released on February 27, 2024

Texas wildfires rage across state Panhandle

By REUTERS
 The New Flame less than a mile off Europa Point was struck by a petrol tanker.

Oil spill caused by Houthi attack on ship in Gulf of Aden raises environmental concerns

 Two eagles pass off responsibilities for incubating their chicks.

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

 Prof. Moti Herskowitz and his lab team

Israel's Ben-Gurion University revolutionizes clean air travel with new aviation technology

A huge group of white-winged terns are seen flocking to Eilat.

One in five of world's migratory species at risk of extinction - UN report

By REUTERS
 The Mediterranean Sea's upper layer is warming significantly faster than the global forecast

Mediterranean Sea is warming, rising faster than it should be - report

A hazard immediately removed by the Nature and Parks Authority

SPNI's SeaWatch app sees double the downloads in 2023

 Israeli artillery unit firing shells towards the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, December 19

How not being vegan makes war more likely - opinion

By RICHARD H. SCHWARTZ
 A damaged house is seen, following the deadly October 7 attack, in Kibbutz Be’eri in southern Israel.

How to give Israel a green future after the war with Hamas is over

 Alexander River – in the Emek Hefer Region of Israel’s Mediterranean Coastal Plain is a beautifully restored river which runs the width of Israel to its estuary near the moshav of Beit Yannai.

Alarming levels of chemical contamination found in small coastal ecosystems