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A handout picture released by Yemen's Houthis on July 8, 2025, reportedly shows a view of damage to the Liberia-flagged bulk carrier Eternity C after it was attacked by the Iran-backed rebels at sea. (Ansar Allah Media Center / AFP)
July 14, 2025, 12:34 pm
Search ends for missing mariners from ship sunk by Yemen’s Houthis in Red Sea
Security firms say at least 4 presumed dead, 11 unaccounted for and 10 rescued from attack on Greek-owned Eternity C, a day after Iran-backed terrorists targeted sister ship
By AP and ToI Staff
Saving for the future. (MonthiraYodtiwong, iStock by Getty Images)
March 14, 2025, 8:45 pm
New tool ranks state savings plans for children on environmental, social impact
ENVA platform helps parent select funds for state’s Savings Plan for Every Child by ranking returns alongside investment in fossil fuels, polluting industries, gambling, porn
By Sue Surkes
Israeli firefighters try to extinguish a fire that started from a fragments of an interception missile at the Biriya Forest in northern Israel, June 4, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)
February 15, 2025, 5:37 am
Burned trees, traumatized animals: Nature reveals the unseen effects of Israel’s wars
Missile fire and other factors have disturbed entire ecosystems, affected wildlife habitats and undone years of work by foresters, compounding existing problems from climate change
By Deborah Danan
A protest against the expansion of activity at the EAPC oil port in Eilat, southern Israel, on February 10, 2021. The sign reads, 'Stop the oil agreement now.' (Egor Iggy Petrenko/Coast Patrol)
December 9, 2024, 10:09 pm
Siding with controversial company, government scraps policy restricting Eilat oil imports
Broad coalition vows to continue fight to protect environment and Eilat corals from oil spills, notes exposure of oil infrastructure to enemy attack during ongoing war
By Sue Surkes
Displaced Palestinians sit by tents across from a garbage dump in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on July 22, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas terror group. (Eyad Baba/AFP)
August 13, 2024, 12:11 pm
Disease without borders: Massive piles of garbage in Gaza also threaten Israel
Experts say even drinking water in Ashdod could be contaminated by toxic buildup from hundreds of untreated trash heaps, after Gaza’s waste removal system paralyzed by war
By Uri Blau in partnership with Shomrim
Belize-flagged cargo ship Rubymar, damaged in a February 19 missile strike claimed by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, floats in the Red Sea. (Satellite image ©2024 Maxar Technologies / AFP)
March 3, 2024, 10:05 am
Cargo ship sunk in Houthi strike poses Red Sea environmental risk, US military says
Fuel oil seen leaking from Lebanon-operated vessel, which was carrying fertilizer from United Arab Emirates to Bulgaria
By AFP and ToI Staff
Feral dogs from the Gaza Strip seen near to Kibbutz Re'im, southern Israel. (Nimrod Cohen)
February 13, 2024, 8:10 pm
Feral dogs from Gaza enter Israel, compounding nature authority’s war woes
Ending 2023 with NIS 150 million deficit, Israel Nature and Parks Authority has one worker in Hamas captivity, 310 serving in the IDF reserves, 118 evacuated from their homes
By Sue Surkes
A massive oil leak caused by the rupture of a Europe Asia Pipeline Company line in the Evrona nature reserve in 2014. (Environmental Protection Ministry)
February 9, 2024, 12:25 pm
State oil conglomerate fined NIS 1.5 million for massive leak in nature reserve
Two employees of Europe Asia Pipeline Company also handed small fines; CEO of environmental lobby says punishments ‘a mockery,’ urges state prosecution to demand jail time
By Sue Surkes
Soldiers guard the entrance to a Hamas tunnel in the Gaza Strip, in a handout photo published November 9, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 5, 2023, 10:35 pm
Flooding Hamas tunnels could harm Gaza’s freshwater for generations, warns academic
Experts call on defense establishment to carefully weigh environmental impacts of reported plan to flush terrorists out of vast underground network
By Sue Surkes
Passengers wade into the waters of the Dead Sea from Noam Bedein's boat on a recent excursion. (Noam Bedein via JTA)
August 9, 2023, 2:11 am
Boat trip aimed at saving Dead Sea also explores marvels revealed by its evaporation
Noam Bedein’s latest excursions have led him to discover sights he’s never seen as he seeks to save the natural wonder being depleted by water scarcity, industry and climate change
By Deborah Danan
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
Smartphone waste. (MikroLogika, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)
October 31, 2022, 4:00 pm
Israeli-made vending machine offers easy sale, trade and recycling of used phones
RE-Refurbished Smartphones Revolution provides a one-stop shop to reduce e-waste, production energy, natural resource depletion and mining-related damage
By Sue Surkes
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