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The coal-fired Orot Rabin power station in Hadera, central Israel, seen from the Hadera Stream National Park, April 25, 2025. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
December 15, 2025, 12:50 pm
Israeli scientists say artificial rock weathering can remove CO2 from atmosphere
Hebrew University experts continue in footsteps of researcher who built special reactor that flushes CO2, seawater through stone columns, but science yet to be tested on large scale
By Sue Surkes
Kenaf Ventures manager Uri Shapira stands in a field of kenaf plants that reach around four meters (13 feet) in height, Kfar Aza. (Kenaf Ventures )
November 20, 2023, 6:18 pm
Environmental startup vows to return to devastated kibbutz and help rebuild it
Just two days before devastating Hamas attack, Kenaf Ventures met with partners at Kfar Aza, one of the worst-hit communities, to celebrate partnership, discuss future
By Sue Surkes
Ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. Third from left is Israel Talpaz, cofounder and CEO of SeeTree, April 28, 2023. (NYSE)
May 12, 2023, 10:39 pm
Company that offers farmers intel on trees adapts tech to measure carbon absorption
Tel Aviv-based SeeTree partners with US afforestation company GreenTrees to develop machine-learning-based approach to calculating carbon sequestration for carbon credit market
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
Part of the plan for greening Jerusalem's Hebron Road. (courtesy, Yossi Saidov)
August 2, 2022, 2:13 pm
Daily Briefing August 2: Tightening belts: Inflation and a ‘road diet’ for Jerusalem
Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur says Israel’s prices should be no higher than New Zealand’s; environment reporter Sue Surkes on offsetting carbon in the air with forests
By ToI Staff
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
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