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Throwing the Earth in the trash. Climate crisis. Illustration: depositphotos.com

International Court of Justice in The Hague: Legal obligation for countries to combat climate change

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Precedented decision obliges countries to act to reduce emissions and maintain a healthy environment – as part of protecting human rights
MethaneSAT satellite. Illustration courtesy of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)

Jeff Bezos' climate change monitoring satellite shuts down – and becomes space junk

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MethaneSAT, the first environmental satellite operated by a civic organization, shuts down after 15 months of operation. Researchers: "The information collected has already changed the rules of the game in monitoring methane emissions"
Wars are undermining the fight against the climate crisis. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The wars that exacerbate the climate crisis: "Mass climate attack"

As countries try to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, geopolitical conflicts contribute to pollution, destroy green infrastructure and divert budgets – threatening to derail the fight against global warming.
The University of Haifa signed an agreement with Dr. Gideon Bikel, agronomist, entrepreneur and businessman, in which Dr. Bikel donated an area of ​​61 dunams in Moshav Neve Yarak for the purpose of establishing an innovative research farm for innovative agriculture. Photo: Haifa University Spokesperson

A research farm for innovative agriculture will be established at the University of Haifa

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It will be a center for advanced research led by the university's Evolution Research Institute and will focus on the development of agricultural methods that integrate environmental sustainability, the improvement of innovative varieties and dealing with the challenges of the climate crisis
Carl Sagan extends his palms to the universe, an attempt at creating an image using artificial intelligence.

Carl Sagan's scientific legacy goes far beyond the Cosmos series

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From the revolutionary astronomical achievements to the social activism and inspiration for generations of scientists - how Carl Sagan shaped science and our understanding of the universe.
Red city bus in Baku, Azerbaijan with eco design for COP29

COP29: Everything you wanted to know about the upcoming climate conference

The UN climate conference, which is expected to take place next week in Baku, is a critical opportunity to raise the pace in the fight against the climate crisis - especially in the case of Israel, which can contribute a lot to the world in the field of climate innovation.
Trump is satisfied with the cancellation of environmental regulation, the climate disaster in the background shows that he is wrong. Illustration by Avi Blizovsky, using artificial intelligence

MIT Business Review: Trump's victory is a tragic loss for progress in tackling the climate crisis

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Throwing food in the trash. Illustration: depositphotos.com

thrown in the trash

On the religious and cultural factors that lead to food waste in households
Figure 1 Illustration of the greenhouse effect. From the State Comptroller's report on dealing with the climate crisis, March 2023

In the decade 2010-2019, the number of reports of natural disasters increased 4.5 times compared to the decade of the seventies because of the climate crisis

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The process of turning carbon dioxide into carbon nano fibers. From the scientific article

Two birds with one stone - turning carbon dioxide into carbon nanofibers

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The idea of ​​capturing carbon dioxide or converting it to other substances in order to combat climate change is not new. However, simply storing carbon dioxide in a certain compound may lead to its leakage into the environment
This map depicts the global temperature anomalies for the meteorological summer in 2023 (June, July and August). It shows how much warmer or cooler different regions of the Earth were compared to the baseline average from 1951 to 1980: NASA Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin

The climate crisis delivered a strong blow: the summer of 2023 was the hottest ever

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This raw data is analyzed using methods that take into account the variable distance between temperature stations around the world and the effects of urban heat islands that may distort the calculations.
food waste Illustration: depositphotos.com

Save food, save the world

The cooperative economy tries to provide an answer to the loss of food
A doodle in honor of Eunice Newton Food, the scientist who discovered the greenhouse effect already 170 years ago. Not that it helps the deniers to hinder the taking of emergency actions even today. Photo from Google's interactive video

Google released a doodle in honor of Eunice Newton Foote, who discovered the cause of the climate crisis already 170 years ago

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Eunice Newton Foote was the first to discover the alarming effects of carbon oxides in the atmosphere in 1856. Today this phenomenon is known as the greenhouse effect. It can be said that then also began the denial of the climate crisis that continues
Israel is not prepared for the climate crisis. Figure using DALEE-2. Definitions: Avi Blizovsky

The power outages prove what the OECD stated: Israel is lagging behind in taking measures to reduce the climate crisis

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According to the organization's report published this week in Israel, 5% use renewable energy sources, if we were closer to 12% - the OECD average, it would be easy to avoid the shame of self-initiated power outages during the day in the country
Greenhouse gas emissions. Image: depositphotos.com

Porous crystals for trapping greenhouse gases contain fluorine

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Gases containing fluorine - including those known as per- or polyfluorinated hydrocarbons [PFCs], have been found to have multiple effects on global warming. Researchers have recently succeeded in developing innovative crystalline materials capable of adsorbing in a manner
From left are Microsoft President Brad Smith, CFO Amy Hood and CEO Satya Nadella. Photo: Brian Smale, Microsoft

Microsoft will reach negative carbon emissions by 2030 * will establish a fund of one billion dollars to find removal solutions

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Zero carbon emissions. Illustration: shutterstock

LG is committed to balancing carbon emissions by 2030

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A herd of cows in the dry land of Burkina Faso. From Wikipedia

Warming cows

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The new report denies the claim that switching to raising cattle in pastures will allow a reduction in the amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere. Illustration: pixabay.com.

Pasture cattle: not as environmentally friendly as you thought

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Climate change will make the flights of the future much more volatile. Photo: Jordan Sanchez.

Changes in flying habits

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A world without meat

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Batteries that produce electricity from a reaction of carbon dioxide could help reduce carbon emissions into the atmosphere. Illustration: pixabay.

Ideas that will change the world: batteries that can remove carbon from the atmosphere

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Live (left) and fossilized ginkgo leaf (right). The density of piones in such leaves provides an approximation of the atmospheric CO2 concentration in the past. Photo: Dana Royer, courtesy of the University of Southampton.

Climate warming will bring the Earth to an unprecedented 420 million year high

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Natural gas drilling rig. Natural gas consists of 90 percent methane, which is released in very large quantities during the production and treatment of natural gas, accumulates in the atmosphere and increases the greenhouse effect and climate change. Photo: aherrero

The vicious cycle of methane

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The most serious environmental damage from food losses is caused precisely when we waste meat. Photo: Lukas Budimaier

Lost meat

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Preparations for the opening of the Paris Conference. Photo: Ministerio del Ambiente, Flickr

Will the news come from Paris?

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An illustration of the amount of carbon dioxide that man emitted into the atmosphere in 2012, next to the Statue of Liberty. Image: Carbon Visuals, flickr

Add green to the dollar

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Illustration depicting the pyrolysis process and the absorbed amounts of carbon dioxide at different temperatures. Photo: Rice University

Bucky balls help preserve the environment

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The refineries in Haifa Bay. Photo: shutterstock

The Ministry of Environmental Protection recommends a 30% reduction in emissions in 2030

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Two servings of red meat per week - steaks. Photo: shutterstock

British researchers: reducing beef consumption and switching to chicken and vegetables will make it possible to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

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Emissions from power plants and industrial plants. Photo: shutterstock

IPCC: We must act immediately to stop global warming, before it is too late

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Sheep grazing in the Riverina region of Australia, during the drought of 2007. From Wikipedia

Meat production with less damage to the atmosphere

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Hot clinker after leaving the kiln. Image manipulation: Macau500, wikimedia/commons

to build with less greenhouse gases

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Changes in clouds and amounts of rain over the equatorial Atlantic Ocean in the last sixty years, dark brown = 40 mm more rain per month, gray = 40 mm less rain per month, (note the increase on the West African coast)

Warming and winds

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Prof. Jacob Bar

return the greenhouse gases to the earth

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Image a is an atomic force microscope (AFM) image of a polymer sheet whose dark spots are organic nanotubes. b is a transmission electron microscope (TEM) image of a sheet with sub-nanometer channels where the organic nanotubes are circled in red. On the right - magnification of a single nanotube. Photo: Ting Xu

Molecular polymer membranes

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oregano

Oregano to reduce warming?

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The Greenhouse Effect - Image: University of Arizona

2.3% of Israel's greenhouse gases are fluorine compounds. The problem - their influence on the greenhouse effect is much greater than MPD

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One of the signs of the green revolution - fertilizing fields

Fixing the world's nitrogen problem

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One of the signs of the green revolution - fertilizing fields

The green revolution against the DTP

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Chamonix Valley in the French Alps. The witness snow is melting. Photo: from Wikipedia

For the skeptics... true or false

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Conversion of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide

Carbon dioxide reduction using light

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

An important step forward in converting methane gas to liquid fuel

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

"Greener" consumer products

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

greenhouse gas (new?)

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Conversion of greenhouse gas to fuel

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Residents in shady streets save 10% on their electricity bill

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Teflon: chemists break down harmful bonds

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

An unknown greenhouse gas - the material used in LCD screens

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

A modern and promising material for capturing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide

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