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Egypt’s Pyramid Builders Succumbed to Climate Change
Pollen and ash in Nile river delta sediment provides evidence of ancient climactic events including mega-droughts and wildfires which wiped out pyramid-building civilizations, says a study published...
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Zalul’s App “Tests” the Swimming Water in Israel
Thanks to a network of Israeli divers, and the Health Ministry, Israeli non-profit environmental association Zalul is now keeping the public up to date on the condition of the country’s waterways. By...
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Israel Strengthens Environmental Ties to 44 African Nations
Israel now has relations with 44 African nations, more than at any time in the country’s history. “This is the dawning of a new era in relations between Israel and African states,” according to Lynn...
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Israel Strengthens Environmental Ties to Africa: Part 2
Investing in African Agriculture This past April, MASHAV, Israel’s agency for international development cooperation, signed a memorandum of understanding with the United States Agency for International...
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Calling All Green Bloggers – Masdar Competition Wants Your Ideas!
Fancy the chance to win an all-expenses paid trip to attend Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week in the United Arab Emirates? Well, here’s how. Masdar, the renewable energy company based in Abu Dhabi, has...
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5 Inspiring Green Prophet Stories and People Of 2012
For Green Prophet, I often write about (let’s face it) depressing issues such as climate refugees and environmental conflicts in which everyone pays the price but I do sometimes get to write about some...
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Egypt and Morocco’s Equator Prize Winners Preserve Environment through Tradition
The Medicinal Plants Association in Egypt helps preserve biodiversity and is one of the 25 winners of the Equator Prize 2012. Policy making within the realm of “development” is often burdened by an...
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Masdar’s Winning Blog: Demystifying the Water-Energy Nexus
If you are among the 70 or more bloggers who submitted an entry to Masdar’s blogging competition, or simply want to know what it takes to impress the jury of one of the leading promoters of sustainable...
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Israel’s Kishon “Cancer” River Gets Oasis Upgrade by Canadian Firm EnGlobe
The Kishon River where it enters the Haifa Bay Unlike pastoral rivers in Europe where bathers can jump in without alarm, Israeli rivers are all too toxic to swim in. Most toxic of all is the Kishon...
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NASA Watches Underground Fresh Water Sea Vanish from the Middle East (VIDEO)
Sound the alarms? Where has Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq’s underground freshwater sea gone? NASA’s imaging technology recently brought some bad news about Mideast air pollution. Now NASA brings more...
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Export Oil, Import Water = Risky Economics for Middle East
Water scarcity has already become a fact of daily life for Egyptians The world’s driest region, the Middle East* and North Africa (MENA), is getting drier at an alarming rate. And yet, despite massive...
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Chemical Waste Destroying Turkey’s Historical Bafa Lake Reserve
Two thousand years ago, Lake Bafa was a bay in the Aegean Sea, known as the Gulf of Latmus. The remains of ancient Byzantine monasteries can still be found on its islets and nearby mountains. Today,...
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Nanophotonic Building Panels Beam Sunlight and Heat into Cold Space
Finding building materials that are appropriate for hot desert conditions is one of the biggest challenges facing the Middle East and North Africa region’s construction industry. While earth used in...
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Awesome Eco Future Exhibit in Abu Dhabi Teaches Kids the ABCs of Green Living
Eco Future is an engaging interactive exhibit on Al Saadiyat Island that teaches children the ABCs of going green in Abu Dhabi. Partially modeled after the Emirate’s own long term sustainability...
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Can Flow Industries Make Oil Fracking Greener?
Can green and fracking ever be used in the same sentence? Hydraulic fracturing – fracking — is one way to extract valuable shale oil and gases from deep underground by injecting a highly pressurized...
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Egypt’s Filthy Canals Are Breeding Disease and Discontent
Egypt’s network of canals are filthy, stagnant and have become dumping sites which breed disease and discontent Egypt may be synonymous with the majestic Nile but the network of canals that bring water...
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Israeli Innovator Dr. Daniel Hillel wins UN World Food Prize
October 16, 2012 is World Food Day as designated by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO). This years theme is agricultural cooperatives, and the winner of the World Food...
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Israel to Label All Egg Imports
Israelis are averse to buying egg imports from Turkey, where the hens may not be inoculated against salmonella. Free from the dilemma of buying the free-range or organic eggs (I own my own coop with...
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Green Waste Processing for Boutique Olive Oil Presses and Wineries
An Israeli company makes a mini-sewage plant to help small wineries, olive oil and cheese-makers deal with the pollutants from their industries. Waste from small olive presses, cheese factories and...
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Egypt’s Pyramid Builders Succumbed to Climate Change
Pollen and ash in Nile river delta sediment provides evidence of ancient climactic events including mega-droughts and wildfires which wiped out pyramid-building civilizations, says a study published...
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