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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 465

environmental hazard

Flames and smoke rise from the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion, which has been on fire since August 23, on the Red Sea, August 28, 2024. (EUNAVFOR ASPIDES via X/Reuters)
September 3, 2024, 6:37 am
US says Houthi rebels targeted Saudi-owned oil tanker in latest Red Sea attack
CENTCOM assesses that Iran-backed group’s ballistic missile attack targeted tanker carrying some two million barrels of oil, slams ‘reckless acts of terrorism’
By AP
Heavy smoke rises from a large tank belonging to the Europe Asia Pipeline Company, after being hit by a rocket on May 12, 2021, near Ashkelon. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
December 12, 2023, 9:06 pm
Think tank: Give state environmental bodies more power and funds during war
Taub Center for Social Policy Studies warns decision makers of need to better prepare for potential disasters such as oil spills, damage to fuel tanks, emission of toxic materials
By Sue Surkes
Special receptacles for old or damaged lithium-ion batteries to be distributed around Israel. (Courtesy, Israel Electronics Recycling Corporation)
March 16, 2023, 6:49 am
Israeli company to start collecting lithium-ion batteries for recycling
Electronics Recycling Corporation rolling out containers in Jerusalem, Rishon Lezion for batteries from bikes and scooters — but not cars — which will be recycled in Europe
By Sue Surkes
An exhaust pipe from a diesel generator spouts fumes near a residential building in Beirut, Lebanon, March 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
September 12, 2022, 11:24 am
Generators keep the lights on in Mideast while spewing hazardous fumes into homes
Unlike most power plants, generators are often inside neighborhoods, pumping toxins directly to residents; reliance on them stems from state failure due to war or mismanagement
By Zeina Karam
The FSO Safer in an undated photo. (Courtesy: Safer Exploration and Production Operations)
August 30, 2022, 6:48 pm
‘Time bomb’: UN says abandoned Red Sea oil tanker off Yemen could cause disaster
UN appeals for $14 million needed to address the issue, says if the FSO Safer breaks up, it could unleash a catastrophic spill costing up to $20 billion to clean up
By AFP
Illustrative image: a baby in a polluted city (iStock via Getty Images)
March 10, 2022, 7:35 am
Babies in high air pollution areas 25% more likely to have low birth weight – study
Peer-reviewed Israeli research based on 381,000 births; data is vital, says epidemiologist, since low birth weight points to increased risk of illness later in life
By Nathan Jeffay
A Palestinian worker looks for batteries among other electric waste at a warehouse in Jebaliya, Gaza Strip, December 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
December 22, 2021, 12:09 pm
25,000 tons of old batteries in Gaza pose risk to health, environment
With no option of exporting or safely disposing of the power units, relied upon due to chronic power cuts, officials warn they could leak sulfuric acid into soil and water supply
By Agencies
View of the oil refineries in Haifa Bay, May 5, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90/File)
October 20, 2021, 2:13 pm
Haifa’s Oil Refineries Ltd. tops worst environmental offenders list… again
Environment Protection Ministry publishes ninth report on organizations considered high risk; 5 of top 10 are part of Israel Corporation, majority-owned by Idan Ofer
By Ricky Ben-David and Sue Surkes
An undersea fire is seen in the in Gulf of Mexico on June 3, 2021. (Screenshot: Twitter)
July 3, 2021, 6:28 pm
Gas pipeline rupture causes undersea fire in Gulf of Mexico
Accident causes strange sight of massive flames boiling up from below the water’s surface; no injuries in incident near state-owned drilling platform
By AP
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March 4, 2021, 2:49 pm
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Activists take part at a protest march to demand immediate action on climate change, in Tel Aviv on September 27, 2019. (Flash90)
February 3, 2021, 7:33 am
Trying to pitch pollution’s ills? Drop the studies and speak to the people
Experts at conference say academics must convey their findings in a way that will enable politicians and public to connect environmental hazards and health
By Sue Surkes
Human-generated refuse (mbaysan by iStock by Getty Images)
December 9, 2020, 8:19 pm
Humans make so much ‘stuff’ it now outweighs life on Earth – Israeli research
In an environmental ‘wake-up call,’ scientists say mankind’s impact on planet so huge that our creations weigh more than ‘living biomass,’ and plastic weighs more than all animals
By Nathan Jeffay
A satellite image of the FSO Safer tanker moored off Ras Issa port, in Yemen, June 17, 2020. (Maxar Technologies via AP)
July 27, 2020, 4:29 pm
Rights group calls for sanctioning Yemen rebels over moored oil tanker
Potential leak from FSO Safer, loaded with 1.1 million barrels of crude, would significantly exacerbate country’s humanitarian crisis, says Human Rights Watch
By AP
A dead ibex found on July 15, 2017, following the collapse of an evaporation pond wall that released toxic waste water into the Ashalim stream in southern Israel. (Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
June 22, 2020, 5:57 pm
Popular stream in south to reopen 3 years after deadly chemical spill
Environmental Protection Ministry, Israel Nature and Parks Authority declare Ashalim stream safe after risk assessment, soil and water sampling
By Sue Surkes
Untreated sewage flowing in the Kidron Stream in the Judean Desert following several days of heavy rain, November 27, 2014. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
June 22, 2019, 5:35 am
Israel, Palestinians eye smooth waters with historic cooperation on sewage
For years, Jerusalem wastewater has been flowing as is to Dead Sea, with politics blocking a solution. Now one of the region’s worst environmental hazards can finally be treated
By Aviv Lavie
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