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 …
Following an industrial fire that broke out in Bnei Brak, the Environmental Protection Ministry on Sunday warned the public to avoid spending time outside enclosed buildings located within a 50-meter radius of HaYarkon 6 in the city. The warning came on Sunday afternoon due to the large amounts of asbestos …
PM Narendra Modi's pet Ganga cleanup programme and his mission for clean water has attracted interest from foreign nations. Israel and Denmark, global leaders in water technology and water management, say they can be part of this particular national mission. Israeli ambassador Alon Ushpiz told TOI, “Think about the purification …
Finance Minister Yair Lapid approved a decision on Sunday to declare 2014 a drought year in the Negev, as well as other parts of the South and the North. The decision came after agricultural areas damaged by the drought were examined and losses to farmers were evaluated. Farmers who produce …
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the spread of polio is an international public health emergency. Outbreaks in Asia, Africa and Middle East are an "extraordinary event" needing a co-ordinated "international response", the agency says. It recommends citizens of affected countries travelling abroad carry a vaccination certificate. It says …
The Atmospheric Water-Generation Units created by Water-Gen use a "GENius" heat exchanger to chill air and condense water vapour. An Israeli company has developed a new and inexpensive technology that produces drinking water from thin air, an advancement that can address the problem of water scarcity in developing countries such …
A team of experts from Israel on Tuesday reached Bhubaneswar to study groundwater pollution in the city. The Chilika Development Authority (CDA), which is managing the wetlands at Chilika, is facilitating the team's visit. The team will conduct a study called 'phytoremediation', meaning use of plants for the removal of …
Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority on Monday signed a water-sharing agreement that includes the building of a desalination plant on the Gulf of Aqaba and a pilot study for a pipeline linking the Red Sea with the Dead Sea, the World Bank said. The agreement brings a long-awaited Red …
WHO has confi rmed an outbreak of at least ten cases of polio in Syria, where vaccination coverage has dramatically decreased during the civil war. Furthermore, wild-type poliovirus 1 (WPV1) has been isolated from sewage and faeces from asymptomatic carriers in Israel since February, 2013. Tourists and travellers could bring …
The earth revolves around the sun, and so does the green-tech industry. Some of the earliest pioneers of solar energy started in Israel 30 years ago with the company Luz. Luz went on to become Luz II, then BrightSource, which is now a US-based solar power company about to flip …
Even as the threat of importing polio from polio-endemic countries looms large over India, which has not reported a single polio case since 2011, the government stands by the international health regulations and has decided that it will not put any travel-related restrictions on travellers visiting India from these countries. …
Israel will build a pipeline that doubles the amount of water sold to the Palestinian Authority for Gaza Strip residents, a Defense Ministry spokesman said. The new pipeline will increase supplies to the Gaza Strip to 10 million cubic meters, spokesman Guy Inbar said today in a phone interview. The …
With an eye on polio free status from the World Health Organisation next January, the Health Ministry wants travellers from seven countries — three where polio is endemic and four which have seen recent outbreaks because of virus importation — to undergo polio vaccination before entering India, much like some …
Netafim, an Israeli provider of drip and micro-irrigation technology that improves water, energy, farm and labor productivity, today was awarded the 2013 Stockholm Industry Water Award. Netafim, based in Tel Aviv, started at Kibbutz Hatzerim in the Negev desert in 1965 when members teamed with an engineer who discovered a …
Irrigation and Water Management Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva in discussion with the Israel delegation. Picture by Uditha Kosta Horticulture exhibition, sale Batticaloa town developed Batticaloa Group Corr The Batticaloa town is being developed and modernized at a cost of Rs 102 million under a program launched under the guidance …
Israeli researchers engineer drought resistant plants that could be a game-changer in the global food crisis, requiring less water, yielding bigger harvests, and staying fresh longer. Professor of Biology Shimon Gepstein of Haifa's Technion University pioneered research that may represent a major advance in food supplies worldwide. According to Technion …
The National Institute of Virology's unit in Kerala has detected and confirmed through full genome sequencing the evidence of a new strain of West Nile Virus (WNV) and its association with human cases in India. The virus, transmitted to people through the bites of infected mosquitoes, can cause a fatal …
Mangiana (Sirsa), May 21: Israel will run two training courses every year for progressive farmers from Haryana. In these courses, the farmers will learn modern techniques for increasing their income from farming. Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Ambassador of Israel in India Alon Ushpiz announced this after inaugurating the …
Samples exceeded the US FDA provisional total tolerable intake levels Agriculture officials in the country have been surprised to hear that samples of rice exported to the United States from Bhutan contain harmful levels of lead. The research, led by Dr Tsanangurayi Tongesayi of Monmouth University in New Jersey, analysed …
If Makhteshim Agan India fails to reply to the show-cause notice, its import approval could be revoked The Union agriculture ministry has issued a show-cause notice to Makhteshim Agan India, the Indian arm of Makhteshim Agan (MA), a leading crop protection solutions company based in Israel, for "variance" in data …
London: Scientists have developed a new type of breath test to diagnose stomach cancers — with an accuracy rate of over 90%. The new test works by detecting biomarkers — a chemical profile that is associated with specific stomach complaints or types of cancer — in the air people exhale. …
