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The Weizmann Institute's main and secondary instrument masts in an area of acacia woodland in Kenya. (Courtesy)
June 2, 2026, 11:03 am
Filling global data gap, Israeli team trucks roving climate lab across East Africa
Mobile tower and sensors developed by Weizmann Institute in Revohot sent to measure impact of land use changes on climate, starting in Kenya
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Airplanes at Ben Gurion Airport. February 11, 2026. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)
February 1, 2026, 10:27 pm
Boeing and Israel’s Technion to develop clean fuel tech to cut carbon footprints
US aerospace giant backs multi-million-dollar project at institute to advance towards competitive commercial production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for the industry
By Sharon Wrobel
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
Helios scientists conduct an experiment to produce iron. (Courtesy, Helios)
March 12, 2023, 11:28 pm
Company aiming to create oxygen on moon finds process to make steel plants cleaner
Helios claims that replacing carbon with sodium to prise oxygen out of iron ores — an early stage in steel manufacturing — can slash carbon emissions, energy and production costs
By Sue Surkes
A man wades into the ocean at sunset on June 22, 2021, in Newport Beach, California. (Jae C. Hong/AP)
June 3, 2022, 11:41 pm
Scientists raise alarm as CO2 levels in air double up on pre-industrial numbers
Carbon dioxide amounts now equal that of Pliocene era some 4 million years ago, when planet was much hotter and south Florida was underwater
By Seth Borenstein
People walk along a trail, July 11, 2021, in Death Valley National Park, California (AP/John Locher)
July 20, 2021, 7:46 pm
Hotter here, wetter there: How and why climate change will remake our world
A basic primer on the science behind global warming and why Israel’s location makes it particularly susceptible to the effects of a heating planet
By Sue Surkes
A bus in the UK, protected with the Aura Air filters (Courtesy)
February 18, 2021, 9:36 am
As COVID turns indoors toxic, purification startup sells a breath of fresh air
Aura Air says its devices, released during the pandemic, can disinfect 99.9% of viruses and bacteria
By Jake Epstein
This October 7, 2015, photo shows a general view of the Eshkol power station, the first in Israel to produce electricity from natural gas, in the coastal city of Ashdod. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)
August 2, 2020, 6:05 pm
OECD: Gas-based electricity system will jeopardize aim of zero carbon footprint
As ministries of environment and energy spar over pace of move to renewables, international body confirms solar power cheaper, cleaner and healthier than gas
By Sue Surkes
The unrecognized villages around Ramat Hovav in southern Israel suffer from a high level of air pollution from nearby chemical evaporation ponds, December 28, 2017 (Yaniv Nadav/FLASH90)
June 11, 2020, 11:56 am
In first, Environment Ministry to examine imposing carbon tax on polluters
Israel one of just 3 OECD countries without a tax or emissions trading program to cut gas emissions, but new workshop of experts suggests this might change
By Sue Surkes
E. coli bacteria. (NIAID/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0)
November 28, 2019, 4:10 pm
In possible climate breakthrough, Israel scientists engineer bacteria to eat CO₂
Decade-long research at Weizmann Institute could pave way for low-emissions production of carbon for use in biofuels, food, and help remove excess global warming CO₂ from air
By Sue Surkes
Former TV broadcaster and Blue and White Party environmental campaigner and animal rights activist Miki Haimovich pictured at a dog shelter appealing to viewers to give Shimi and other abandoned dogs a home. (YouTube screenshot)
September 16, 2019, 10:52 pm
Blue and White MK, an ex-TV anchor, wants to turn Israel green
Determined not to stand idly by in the face of environmental degradation, animal rights campaigner Miki Haimovich eyes Environmental Protection Ministry
By Sue Surkes
Screen capture from video of social scientist Mayer Hillman. (YouTube)
April 29, 2018, 7:47 pm
UK academic: It’s too late to stop climate change, ‘we’re doomed’
Mayer Hillman tells Guardian that only a total cut in global carbon emission can save humanity — and that isn’t going to happen
By Stuart Winer
Jack Tato Bigio, co-founder and chief executive at UBQ, holds a recycled plastic bucket next to a pile of dried and shredded garbage at the UBQ factory in Kibbutz Tzeelim, March 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
March 22, 2018, 6:05 pm
Israeli firm says it can turn garbage into plastic gold
UBQ patents a process to convert household trash into reusable plastic that can make any product carbon neutral
By Ilan Ben Zion
An Indian man rides a bike amid heavy smog on a street of New Delhi on November 10, 2017. (AFP/DOMINIQUE FAGET)
November 13, 2017, 1:59 pm
Scientists bemoan ‘giant leap backward’ as CO₂ emissions resume their rise
Finding comes after recent plateau of carbon dioxide emissions that drive global warming raised expectations that world had turned corner
By Marlowe HOOD
View of Haifa under heavy smog (Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash90)
October 30, 2017, 1:51 pm
CO₂ in atmosphere ‘surged’ to new high in 2016, UN says
Greenhouse Gas Bulletin finds carbon dioxide levels now match a time when the sea was 20 meters higher
By AFP and ToI Staff
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