UNICEF Innocenti's Report Card 17 explores how 43 OECD/EU countries are faring in providing healthy environments for children. Beyond children’s immediate environments, over-consumption in some of the world’s richest countries is destroying children’s environments globally. This threatens both children worldwide and future generations. To provide all children with safe and …
As Israel continues airstrikes on Lebanon, the country is now threatened by its worst ecological disaster. At least 35,000 tonnes of oil gushed into the Mediterranean, after Israeli warplanes hit fuel tanks of the Jiyyeh power plant, south of Beirut. The spill has spread along 80 km of the Lebanese …
Scientists from Israel have devised a new technique to detect the virus that causes hepatitis C. Based on analysing saliva samples, the new method is cheap and so can be used for mass screening. Worldwide, over 170 million people are infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and the prevalence …
scientistshave found a way to use solar energy to extract zinc metal, which readily reacts with water to produce hydrogen. With some improvements, the process can be used to produce hydrogen for vehicles powered with fuel cells that would emit just water. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in …
Israel has drawn up a clandestine plan for a giant desalination plant to supply drinking water to the Palestinian territory in West Bank. Apparently this is a ploy to retain control of the region's aquifers and keep at bay pressures to grant water to any future Palestinian state. The new …
Beneath the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip is a groundwater crisis that's rapidly depriving Palestinians of drinking water. Israel and the Palestinian authority share the Mediterranean Coastal Aquifer, which is now contaminated with salts, nitrates and boron. But now, a solution may be at hand. A multilateral team of …
israel may soon become a place where there is not a drop of freshwater to drink. It is well established that seawater seeps into coastal aquifers and contaminates them with salts. Now Brian Berkowitz and his colleagues from Israel-based Weizmann Institute of Science claim that their country's aquifers are even …
It's a battle for the basics now between Israelis and Palestinians. Israeli infrastructure minister Effie Eitam has ordered a ban on all water drilling by Palestinians in West Bank. He alleges that they are drawing illegally from wells and depleting supplies. But Palestinian water commissioner Fadal Kawash has denounced the …
An Israeli research chemist, who is suffering from cancer, has alleged that his disease was triggered by unsafe conditions at a chemical warfare laboratory where he worked as a young soldier. Avi, a doctor of chemistry, now wants the army to pay him compensation. During the 1980s, Avi undertook three …
israel and Lebanon are at loggerheads once again. But this time the bone of contention is Wazzani river, which flows from Lebanon into the Sea of Galilee. Two years after Israel withdrew from Lebanese territory, diplomatic parleys are on again by the us to prevent a flare-up between the two …
The Dead Sea could end up living up to its name in less than 50 years. The saltiest water body in the world may cease to exist if its surface level continues to recede at the present rate of one metre every year. In order to arrest this trend, Jordan …
The fear of an epidemic is sweeping Israel with the first case of mad cow disease having been reported in the country. The disease was found in a cow in a farming settlement in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. However, to allay apprehensions, officials contended that no infected meat had reached …
greens are seeing red at the proposed plan of Israel to dump treated factory wastewater into the Mediterranean Sea. For many years now, industrial effluents have been finding their way into the Kishon river which empties into the Mediterranean at Haifa Bay in Tel Aviv. But as per a new …
though battery technology has come a long way in the last few decades, getting safe, reliable, ecofriendly and cheap rechargeable batteries have still not been developed. Lithium batteries used in portable electronic devices are expensive. They also do not last very long and could be a fire hazard. The lead-acid …
britain's bg International Limited has discovered 594,645 cubic metres of natural gas in the first well it has drilled off the coast of Israel. " bg International has discovered gas in the Or-1 well, the first well it has drilled, which is in the Med Yavna block,' a spokesperson for …
A research team based at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has reported the development of a new class of batteries that have greater capacity, a faster discharge rate and are rechargeable. The difference is in the cathode, which is made from unusual iron-based molecules known as iron (VI) or "super-iron' compounds …
A research team based at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a new battery that has greater capacity, a faster discharge rate and are rechargeable. The difference is in the cathode, which is made from unusual iron-based molecules known as iron (VI), or "super-iron' compounds that absorb more electrons than …
those who want to produce aromatic wine should head for Israel. Grapes grown in the saline region of Negev Desert produce more aromatic wine than those that have been conventionally cultivated. Ben-Ami Bravdo of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem experimented with different root stocks. He found that a type called …
GREEN PEACE activists have built a dam on Israel's Kishon river to block toxic effluents from flowing into the Mediterranean Sea. The effluents are mainly discharged by the heavy petrochemical industries, located along the Kishon, which have turned the river into a virtual waste canal. A study conducted by the …
