environmental issues
- Science site The Conversation
- November 6, 2022
- 3 תגובות
The United Nations declared November 15th as the date when the 8 billionth person will be born.* How should we as humanity avoid the kind of crises that have wiped out civilizations that overexploited their environment only this time it's all of us?
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- November 6, 2022
A year after the conference in Glasgow, in which countries such as the USA, China, Russia, the European Union and Israel, committed to goals of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and 2060 - the question arises: have the various countries acted to meet their commitments from the previous conference?
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- October 27, 2022
A new Swedish study reveals that the concentration of harmful chemical compounds of the PFAS type in rain has passed the point of no return. We will probably have to work hard so that the concept of "blessing rains" does not become a painful chapter in history lessons
- Avi Blizovsky
- October 26, 2022
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The Ministry of Environmental Protection publishes for public comment the draft Israeli green taxonomy, for classifying economic activities according to their impact on environmental goals; The Israeli taxonomy will make it possible to define environmental and climatic effects of economic activities, will allow positive investments for the environment and climate and will prevent greening
- Dr. Asaf Rosenthal
- October 24, 2022
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Destruction of the beaches and serious damage to the marine environment in Eilat. The residents cried out, the authorities ignored
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- October 24, 2022
Three books from the past year offer us three different ways to fight the climate crisis. So what is the right way?
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- October 19, 2022
A new French study found that lizards living in France were born "older". It is not about a sequel to "The Amazing Story of Benjamin Button", but about another item on the list of damages from the climate crisis
- The Voice of Science website - the Israel National Science Foundation
- October 18, 2022
The drop in sea level allows researchers to isolate, document, study and model the consequences of the impact of waves and storms on the coast and the creation of coastlines and coastal cliffs
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- October 16, 2022
A new Israeli study examined how the fish are doing in the Rosh Hankara marine reserve. Diving deeper into the issue showed that the protection of the fish decreases as they move away from its center. So how do we protect the locos that have fallen to the margins? We will protect the marine reserves
- Science site The Conversation
- October 13, 2022
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The collapse of the Amazon forests, the melting of the glaciers and frozen lands, the death of the coral reefs - these are some of the factors that may lead to irreversible changes * Some of them are happening at an alarming rate
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- October 12, 2022
In about a month, the UN's international climate conference will open in Sharm el-Sheikh, where world leaders will gather to try and fight the climate crisis. What is expected to be there? What opportunities does it hold? And what will Israel bring to it?
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- October 9, 2022
Opinion: Yom Kippur is an opportunity to take stock of our vulnerability to the environment. We must prioritize our well-being over more and more profits, and start the social change that will lead us from a culture of "use and throw away" to a sustaining reality of true abundance
- Tel Aviv University
- October 8, 2022
As early as 3,000 years ago, man destroyed the regional vegetation for the benefit of the copper industry and caused fatal damage to the environment
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- October 8, 2022
- Avi Blizovsky
- October 3, 2022
- One response
In preparation for a recommendation to the government on a policy to stabilize the level of the Dead Sea: the Minister of Environmental Protection, Tamar Zandberg, led a multi-participant tour of the Dead Sea region to examine the public comments received on the draft policy document for the future of the Dead Sea published by the ministry
- The Technion
- October 2, 2022
- One response
The researchers from the Technion and the Weizmann Institute developed a smart map showing the potential climatic benefits of planting trees in different sites
- Tel Aviv University
- October 2, 2022
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- September 27, 2022
A new UN report indicates that lawmakers around the world only look at the immediate economic benefit that can be derived from nature - and ignore its value in aspects that are harder to quantify in numbers, such as its effect on the psyche and its cultural role. Is it even possible to put a price tag on the feeling of "green in the eyes", or on the technological developments that nature provides us?
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- September 24, 2022
When the car is barely making progress on the busy city roads, it is comforting to think to ourselves that at least within its walls we are protected from the urban air pollution. But a new study calls us to actually get out of the vehicles: it turns out that it's quite polluted inside - and even more than outside
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- September 24, 2022
A new development from MIT proposes to launch into space giant bubbles that will serve as a shield against solar radiation. A logical solution to the climate crisis or crossing a red line?
- Avi Blizovsky
- September 22, 2022
- No comments
This announcement more than doubles the area of protected marine areas in the maritime space in Israel and is a leap forward in the protection of the unique natural values in the Mediterranean Sea
- Science site The Conversation
- September 21, 2022
- 6 תגובות
The deniers of the climate crisis can't get into scientific journals, so they try their luck using websites that pretend to be such journals. A communication researcher explains how to identify such sites
- The Voice of Science website - the Israel National Science Foundation
- September 20, 2022
Dramatic drops in the level of the Dead Sea in the last hundreds of thousands of years may indicate prolonged dry periods in the eastern Mediterranean region. For example, in the time period between 70 and 14 thousand years ago, the lake level was about 270 meters higher than the current level.
- Avi Blizovsky
- September 19, 2022
- 4 תגובות
Alon Zasek, CEO of the Israel Seas and Lakes Research Company: "This comprehensive survey, the first of its kind in Israel that uses advanced research tools, clearly shows the need to stop using disposable tools to preserve the sea and its biodiversity."
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- September 12, 2022
- 2 תגובות
An American school used profits from placing solar panels on the building's roof and energy efficiency to raise teachers' salaries. Coming Soon? Ask your local authority