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As Amazon burns, wildfires spark fight over who is to blame
By MARCELO SILVA de SOUSA
As experts count record number of blazes, Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro lashes media critics who say he’s not doing enough to stop deforestation
In this August 20, 2019 drone photo released by the Corpo de Bombeiros de Mato Grosso, brush fires burn in Guaranta do Norte municipality, Mato Grosso state, Brazil. (Corpo de Bombeiros de Mato Grosso via AP)
August 22, 2019, 11:39 pm
As Amazon burns, wildfires spark fight over who is to blame
As experts count record number of blazes, Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro lashes media critics who say he’s not doing enough to stop deforestation
By MARCELO SILVA de SOUSA
A demonstration against the construction of a desalination plant on the coast in the Western Galilee, July 30, 2019 (Yuval Hadar)
July 30, 2019, 3:58 pm
Hundreds protest planned desalination plant on coast in Western Galilee
Local residents say facility would unduly damage the environment, when it could be constructed in a nearby industrial zone instead
By Diana Bletter
Shrubland in Nahal Dishon
July 21, 2019, 6:48 am
Can’t see the forest for the trees? Environmental debate restarts on KKL forests
Forests harm biodiversity, says Society for Protection of Nature in Israel; KKL insists trees stop desertification; and a senior ecologist says both bodies have outdated ideas
By Sue Surkes
Two wild elephants, part of a herd that arrived at a wetland near the Thakurkuchi railway station, engage in a tussle on the outskirts of Gauhati, Assam, India, on June 7, 2017. (AP / Anupam Nath)
May 6, 2019, 4:12 pm
UN says nature is in worst shape in human history
Thousand-page report approved by 109 nations concludes over 1 million species of plants and animals facing extinction
By Seth Borenstein
Planet Earth: how did it get its start? (iStock/MarcelC)
April 22, 2019, 9:15 am
Move over Big Bang: Should science take a page from religion’s Big History book?
In ‘Origin Story,’ Prof. David Christian offers a big-picture look at Earth, the universe, and everything — a zoom-out perspective that could just save the planet
By Rich Tenorio
In this June 8, 2018 photo, divers collect plastic and other debris during a cleanup organized by Camel Dive Club, at a dive site off the coast of the Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheikh, in southern Sinai, Egypt. (AP Photo/Thomas Hartwell)
April 2, 2019, 5:16 pm
Egypt province banning single-use plastics to clean up Red Sea
Restaurants, supermarkets, grocery stores, pharmacies and even docking cruise ships will face the new ban, part of environmental push along Hurghada coast
By Samy Magdy
Israelis take part at a protest march to demand immediate action on climate change in Tel Aviv on March 29, 2019. (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)
March 29, 2019, 8:13 pm
Thousands rally in Tel Aviv to demand action against climate change
Chanting ‘we want clean air’ and ‘environment before profit,’ protesters also focus anger on construction of natural gas platform off the coast
By TOI staff
Tomatoes wrapped in plastic. (DutchScenery/ iStock/Getty)
March 5, 2019, 6:03 am
Waste not, wrap not? Environmentalists rip plan to cover produce in plastic
Agriculture Ministry initiative comes as annual report finds Israel wastes 2.5 million tons of food each year, worth NIS 19.7 billion ($5.5 billion)
By Melanie Lidman
Hezbollah terror chief Hassan Nasrallah stars in an Israeli ad campaign encouraging Israelis to recycle plastic bottles. (YouTube screenshot)
February 7, 2019, 11:54 pm
Hezbollah terror chief chides Israelis for not recycling, in mock ad campaign
Hassan Nasrallah appears in billboard ad and video put out by Israeli recycling group aimed to encourage citizens to recycle plastic bottles
By TOI staff
The olive trees outside of Amsterdam’s Portuguese synagogue get wrapped up every year. They are shown here in February 2018. (Hans Kaljee/via JTA)
December 30, 2018, 11:22 pm
By Amsterdam’s Portuguese Synagogue, Spanish olive trees endure northern winters
The grove is an homage to the Jewish community’s Sephardic roots, but increasingly presents a challenge for ethical landscaping and sustainability
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A view of Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 2, 2014, when a flash dust storm hits the Iranian capital. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
September 8, 2018, 3:57 pm
Conflicts hinder Iran efforts to counter dust storms
With civil war in Syria and Islamic State uprising in Iraq, ‘environment has lost all priority,’ Tehran official says sadly
By AFP
Two Jews walking down a street in Antwerp, Belgium, August 22, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
September 4, 2018, 10:12 pm
Belgian heatwave puts a cherished Rosh Hashanah tradition on ice
At Antwerp’s City Park pond, the annual tashlich ritual will be improvised with tanks as it is unadvisable for Jews to walk en masse to another body of water a mile away
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Al-Shabaab fighters march with their weapons during military exercises on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, in 2011. (AP/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)
July 5, 2018, 2:15 pm
Al Qaeda-backed terror group bans single-use plastic bags
Fear of violence at the hands of al-Shabaab means that their edicts are usually followed
By TOI staff and Agencies
Israelis set the record for the world's largest 'surfing paddle-out' in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Herzliya, as part of a protest against natural gas drilling near Israel's coastline. (Screen capture: Hadashot news)
June 22, 2018, 7:00 pm
Israeli surfers claim to set world record with gas-drilling protest
1,000 people form human circle off Herzliya coast in what they say is the largest-ever ‘paddle out,’ call for gas rigs to be moved further from shore
By TOI staff
Orange smoke rises from smoke bombs near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's home in Caesarea, May 25, 2018 (Kan TV news screenshot)
May 25, 2018, 5:07 pm
Demonstrators set off smoke bombs near PM’s Caesarea home, with him inside
Police investigating use of canisters in dumpster near Netanyahu’s private residence during environmentalists’ rally
By TOI staff
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