January 17, 2022

Today, East African countries import from the US and Europe used clothes and shoes worth an average of 151 million dollars per year as part of trade agreements between them. Photo: Ikhlasul Amal, Flickr

This is how the clothes we donate from our closet go to Africa's landfills

Even if we feel good about ourselves when we donate clothes to second-hand stores, in many cases this causes a significant environmental and social problem in the poorest countries of the world. The solution: simply buy less new clothes
In the photo: Phytoplankton algae of the coccolithophore type, through an electron microscope

First clues to the extinction of species in the Gulf of Eilat

A new study found that a significant decrease was observed in the amount of one of the phytoplankton species in the Gulf of Eilat.