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An aerial view of Pacific Ocean waves breaking near Morro Rock (TOP) in a marine area which is currently recommended for exclusion from the proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary along California's Central Coast on September 20, 2023. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images via AFP)
July 3, 2025, 12:06 pm
Israeli startup’s unproven marine tech raises doubts about carbon capture claims
Scientists skeptical of Israeli firm Gigablue’s opaque scheme to sink thousands of tons of carbon-trapping particles in the Pacific, say it stands to alter marine ecosystem
By Helen Wieffering
CarbonBlue founders Dan Deviri (right) and Iddo Tsur.
July 25, 2024, 12:00 pm
Company with ‘game-changing’ method for removing CO₂ from air nets over $10 million
While today’s technology can suck a mere 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the air annually, Israel’s CarbonBlue seeks to exponentially up efficiency by extracting it from water
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative image of carbon emissions from a factory. (Gypsy Picture Show, iStock at Getty Images)
July 4, 2023, 2:23 pm
Israeli tech companies urged to dive into burgeoning carbon credit markets
Market to remove global-warming carbon dioxide from atmosphere expected to reach $1 trillion, carbon confab hears
By Sue Surkes
Corn seedlings treated with Grace Breeding's NFT biofertlizer, Londrina University, Brazil, November 5, 2022. (Assaf Dotan)
February 13, 2023, 11:13 pm
Israeli company touts nature-based alternative to toxic fertilizers for crops
Grace Breeding says combining its plant-based ‘bioactivator’ with soil bacteria slashes need for harmful synthetic nitrogen, cuts carbon emissions, water use and farmers’ costs
By Sue Surkes
LyOr Rabinowiz clears weeds before planting new saplings at the Miyawaki forest in Shdemama, south-central Israel, January 30, 2023. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
February 6, 2023, 12:18 pm
In crowded Japanese-style forest, Israeli trees find space to grow
Miyawaki method mimics nature to reforest degraded land, in what proponents claim speeds process up tenfold
By Sue Surkes
Human-generated refuse (mbaysan by iStock by Getty Images)
February 1, 2023, 8:09 pm
To fill vacuum, NGO seeks to create local, regional carbon trading scheme
Former PMO official coordinating initiative for new nonprofit that aims to build system that will reliably measure the ability of projects to offset emissions
By Sue Surkes
The former fishpond at Kfar Ruppin in northern Israel that is undergoing rewilding. (Omri salner, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)
November 17, 2022, 2:33 pm
Company tries to offset carbon footprint of Israeli COP27 delegates
Through online questionnaire, Terrra will work out, and offer way to offset, emissions in bid to raise awareness among 1,000-plus Israeli contingent at UN confab in Egypt
By Sue Surkes
Drip-irrigated rice crops in Turkey. (Netafim)
November 11, 2022, 6:58 pm
Netafim to introduce carbon credits for rice growers using drip irrigation
Israeli company says its pioneering technology will save water, lower greenhouse gas emissions and improve crop yields
By Sue Surkes
Screenshot of an interactive map showing a section of a forest in Ecuador in which the red denotes lack of Above-Ground Carbon, green indicates an increase and white means no change. (Courtesy: Albo Climate)
August 15, 2022, 6:34 am
Using satellites and AI, Israeli climate tech maps out where carbon is hiding
Cited as a company with ‘global potential’ by UN official tasked with designing global carbon market regulations, Albo Climate already has projects in Ecuador, Africa and US
By Sue Surkes
Human-generated refuse (mbaysan by iStock by Getty Images)
July 5, 2022, 2:11 pm
UN official sees Israel primed to lead globe in developing carbon capture tech
Representative of world body says at Israel’s first carbon capture confab that country can be leader if it gets going now, but government says it has other priorities
By Sue Surkes
The first Israeli fishpond to undergo rewilding by the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, and to be tested as a basis for carbon credits by Terrra, Kfar Ruppin, March 27, 2022. (Shai Ben Aharon)
May 10, 2022, 4:22 am
Drain the swamp? Israeli startup sees green bonanza in rewilding wetlands instead
‘Israel’s first nature-based carbon trading project’ sees Terrra working with ecology group to rehab fishponds, sell pollution credits and create vital stops for migrating birds
By Sue Surkes
Israelis, some wearing protective face masks and some not, on the streets of Tel Aviv, April 21, 2021. (Miriam Alster/ FLASH90)
April 27, 2022, 4:13 pm
Daily Briefing April 27: Israelis unmasked and the Strauss salmonella scare
Health and science writer Nathan Jeffay discusses no-mask mandate, salmonella in Strauss products as environmental reporter Sue Surkes looks at a Chevron case and wetlands proposal
By ToI Staff
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