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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 433

greenhouse gases

View of the water cooling tower at the Haifa oil refinery in Haifa, July 31, 2022. (Shir Torem/Flash90)
August 25, 2022, 2:36 pm
Industrial air pollution cost Israel NIS 12.5 billion in 2021
Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg lauds overall trend in reducing emissions, though suspected carcinogens increased by 1.5%; electric company biggest culprit
By ToI Staff
Steam billows from a coal-fired power plant, November 18, 2021, in Craig, Colorado. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
June 30, 2022, 6:02 pm
US Supreme Court limits government’s power to cut greenhouse gas emissions
Justices say Clean Air Act doesn’t give Environmental Protection Agency broad authority to regulate power plants that contribute to global warming, decision belongs to Congress
By Mark Sherman
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
A large inflatable globe is bounced through the crowd as thousands of protesters, many of them school students, gather in Sydney, September 20, 2019, calling for action to guard against climate change. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
November 25, 2019, 1:10 pm
Greenhouse gas levels in atmosphere hit new high in 2018, UN says
World body’s meteorological organization warns of ‘rising temperatures, more extreme weather, water stress, sea level rise’ in latest report
By AFP
FILE- In this Oct. 17, 2014, file photo, a thick blanket of smoke is seen against the setting sun as young ragpickers search for reusable material at a garbage dump in New Delhi, India (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)
August 11, 2018, 2:50 pm
Fossil fuel pollution will render parts of Earth uninhabitable, warn researchers
Scientists say a tipping point ‘could be only decades ahead,’ causing sea levels to rise up to 200 feet — and a domino effect may speed the process even more
By Kerry SHERIDAN
Children play in a water fountain on a hot summer day near the Tower of David in the Old City of Jerusalem on a hot summer day. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 14, 2018, 5:44 pm
Study: Israel’s summer to get hotter, longer
Scientists at Tel Aviv University expect region’s summertime to expand from four to six months by 2100
By Melanie Lidman
Illustrative: A Palestinian boy cools off with water from a jerrycan held by a man during a heatwave at al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on July 2, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)
January 18, 2018, 7:20 pm
New study rules out worst-case global warming scenarios
Report slashes more than half of possible end-of-century outcomes, says world unlikely to see increase of four or five degrees by then
By Marlowe HOOD
(From L) Rwanda's Minister of Foreigh Affairs Louise Mushikiwabo, US Secretary of State John Kerry, President of Rwanda Paul Kagame and the US Ambassador to Rwanda Erica J. Barks-Ruggles pose for a group picture after a meeting at the president's office in Kigali during the 28th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on October 14, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/CYRIL NDEGEYA)
October 15, 2016, 11:54 am
World envoys reach deal to phase out super greenhouse gases
US hails move to combat global warming as ‘one of the most important in our effort to save the one planet we have’
By Dave Clark and Stephanie AGLIETTI
File: A weekly cabinet meeting at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem, May 26, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)
April 12, 2016, 8:14 pm
Israel approves plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions
Cabinet okays NIS 800 million in loans and grants to boost energy efficiency as part of climate change commitments
By JTA
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