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![]() Sue SurkesThe Times of Israel |
Greenpeace slams Agriculture Ministry for rosy report on rising beef consumption; Adam Teva V’Din vows to bring Israel into line with Europe via...
Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel signed an amendment to the law Monday to permanently add the Goldblotch grouper fish to the country’s...
Two dead dolphins washed up on southern Israeli shores Tuesday, one at a beach in the city of Ashkelon and the other, later in the day, at a marine...
The number of live animals shipped to Israel for fattening and slaughter shot up by 51 percent during the first quarter of this year, compared with...
The Environmental Protection Ministry on Monday published a document setting out the content for a bill aimed at ensuring that the country is properly...
Environmental organizations and activists have written to the US special presidential envoy for climate change, John Kerry, charging that an agreement...
The senior Environmental Protection Ministry official charged with coordinating the response to last month’s oil disaster revealed that a previous,...
The head of the company that helped Israel pinpoint a vessel it says is responsible for spilling oil that wound up polluting the country’s beaches...
A British expert in marine oil spills representing the London-based International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund visited Israel last week to collect...
The Environmental Protection Ministry announced Monday that it had opened a criminal investigation into a fuel leak late last year from a tank owned...
Glowing trees that can replace street lights and spinach that can send out emails to warn of approaching danger sounds like the stuff of fantasy. But...
There are irises and then there are royal irises, majestically capacious flowers dramatically blooming now from the north to the south of Israel,...
An olive ridley sea turtle, believed to have swum all the way from India, was seen for the first time ever off the Red Sea coast of Eilat this week. ...
Sometime in the not-too-distant future, scientists predict that global temperatures may rise as much as 4 degrees Celsius, or even higher, on average....
The Israel Nature and Parks Authority must be legally authorized to gather intelligence on illegal hunters and wildlife traders, whose use of...
Habitat loss, hunting and climate change are taking a serious toll on bird populations in Israel, a leading ornithologist warned this week. Israel...
Flapping their tiny flippers, the baby sea turtles were not enjoying their moment of fame in front of the cameras. But they are lucky to be alive...
As volunteers continue to clean tar from Israel’s Mediterranean coastline following an apparent oil spill at sea just under two weeks ago, nature...
The oil spill that has caused the contamination of almost the entire stretch of Israel’s Mediterranean coast with tar is “without doubt a case of...
Eleven days after tar began to wash up on Israel’s Mediterranean shore, apparently as a result of a marine oil spill, the Environmental Protection...
The environmental organization Greenpeace on Sunday published images from the European Sentinel satellite showing 12 apparent oil slicks at various...
Tar continued to sweep onto several Israeli beaches on Sunday, as cleanup operations continued following a marine oil spill some 10 days ago, the...
The Environmental Protection Ministry announced Sunday that it had absolved a Greek oil tanker suspected of responsibility for the oil leak that has...
It’s only when you see it with your own eyes that you begin to understand the scope of the oil disaster that has hit most of Israel’s...
The government on Tuesday approved NIS 45 million ($13.8 million) for the cleanup of Israel’s Mediterranean beaches, most of which have been...
A crude oil tanker sailing under a Greek flag and currently anchored off Cartagena in Spain has been named by an Israeli news outlet as a suspect in...
Israel’s Mediterranean coast, hit with tons of tar, after a suspected oil leak out at sea, was still largely contaminated, especially in rocky...
In an extraordinary move Monday, a Haifa court slapped a seven-day gag order on the investigation into the source of a huge oil leak that has polluted...
Lawmakers from seven political parties and a candidate for an eighth faced an online audience of more than 600 people on Sunday to outline their views...
An oil spill in the Mediterranean which has dumped tons of tar almost all the way along Israel’s Mediterranean coast forced the authorities on...
The Environmental Protection Ministry will try to leverage a catastrophic oil spill that has contaminated beaches up and down the land with tar to try...
The government on Sunday advised Israelis to avoid all Mediterranean beaches from north to south due to pollution from a tar spill that has reached...
Vets carrying out an autopsy Sunday of the young fin whale washed up on a beach in southern Israel on Thursday found black liquid in the animal’s...
The Israel Nature and Parks Authority on Sunday launched a website where volunteers interested in helping to clean up a massive tar spill can...
A dangerous mishap was narrowly averted at a kindergarten in central Israel after two toddlers managed to open an old baby formula container and touch...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed Sunday to review controversial plans for a waste to energy incinerator in the West Bank settlement of...
An outing in the countryside on Saturday to let off steam after the lifting of Israel’s third coronavirus lockdown ended in the deaths from...
Demonstrators fear UAE-Israel oil pipeline deal will endanger Red Sea city’s unique coral reefs, as well as pollute air and water in popular...
A spate of jackals attacking humans in northern Israel is being partially blamed on humans’ love of cats. According to a leading Israeli ecologist,...
Academics and activists looking to win the hearts and minds of the public and politicians need to explain environmental hazards in language that most...
Filthy conditions were revealed Monday at one of the country’s main chicken processing plants in the northern city of Kiryat Shmona. An...
The Israel Nature and Parks Authority and the Environmental Protection Ministry marked World Wetlands Day on Tuesday by publishing a map of all water...
As the developed world plans massive spending programs intended to help jumpstart economies across the globe once the COVID-19 pandemic recedes, much...
The man who invented the term “ecological footprint” treated an Israeli audience on Thursday to a blistering attack on neo-liberalism and human...
Gnarled and ubiquitous, a symbol of peace and longevity, the olive tree has been crowned Israel’s national tree. Winning nearly 33 percent of some...
In his seminal work, “Last Child in the Woods,” Richard Louv theorizes that humans have a genetically hardwired connection to the natural world. ...
Police officers cannot demand that citizens present identity documents unless there are reasonable grounds for suspicion against them, the High Court...
The Environmental Protection Ministry on Monday released an ambitious strategy to reverse Israel’s dismal record on recycling and dumping waste in...