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Autumn brings dust storms – how to cope

By WALLA! HOME , DESIGN

A rainbow appears in the sky on a rainy day in Tel Aviv, Israel January 3, 2024.

Rainbows: A symbol of Israel's sobering future

By MOSHE TARAGIN

Storm Daniel, Libya, 2023.

Climate change worsened ten deadliest weather disasters, causing over 570,000 deaths

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

SATELLITE IMAGE from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Hurricane Wilma from space, October 23, 2005.

Front row seat at a hurricane: Memories of a storm battering Florida

By FERN ALLEN

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) attends a press conference alongside fellow Republicans following the passage of the Secure the Border Act, HR-2, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 11, 2023.

Marjorie Taylor Greene claims ‘they’ control the weather as Hurricane Helene batters red states

By Brian Niemietz/New York Daily News/TNS

Mideast: NASA satellite imagery shows how the Middle East has become a major hotspot for loss of groundwater in recent years.

Israel Meteorological Service to name upcoming storms after hostages

Delegation from Israel and Iceland during the Opening Ceremony for the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games along the Seine River, July 26, 2024.

Pouring rain disrupts Games after drenched opening ceremony

By REUTERS

A WOMAN enjoys the beach in Tel Aviv last month as a heat wave hit the country.

2024 could be world's hottest year as June breaks records

By REUTERS

Vehicles get stuck at an area affected by landslide due to bad road conditions after three days of heavy rain at Myagdi, Nepal, October 20, 2021.

Nepal landslides kill nine, including 3 children

By REUTERS

Jewell Baggett, 51, sits on a bathtub amid the wreckage of the home built by her grandfather, where she grew up and three generations of her family lived, and which Hurricane Idalia had reduced to rubble, in Horseshoe Beach, Florida, U.S., August 30, 2023.

Deadly storms, twisters wreak havoc across central US

By REUTERS

A woman carrying an umbrella to protect her from the sun crosses a street in Tel Aviv. August 9, 2023.

Police and judges make more arrests and increase sentences in hotter weather

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Dusty winds are part of a dust storm in Israel

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

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

People exercise at the beach in Tel Aviv, Israel April 20, 2024.

Nearly 100-year record high temperatures hit Tel Aviv

By MAARIV

Hot lava flows from Mount Ruang volcano during an eruption in Sitaro, North Sulawesi province, Indonesia, April 17, 2024.

Indonesian volcano eruption forces evacuations, airport closure

By REUTERS

An ElAl boeing 744 plane.

'Like Six Flags': Israel-New York flight forced to divert, passengers hospitalized

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Thousands of birds take flight above the Hula valley. March 21, 2024.

Thousands of birds take flight, migrate from Hula valley

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Researchers tested concrete slabs containing phase-change material that can warm themselves up when temperatures fall in order to melt off snow and ice.

Self-heating concrete will make snow shovels obsolete

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

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