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Aerial view of the Orot Rabin power station in Hadera, on January 29, 2026. (Yossi Zamir/FLASH90)
September 1, 2026, 6:00 am
Israel’s global warming emissions down in 2025 but still cost economy $11 billion, ministry finds
Environmental Protection Ministry’s pollution data shows positive trends in many areas thanks to continuing demise of coal, drop in wildfires after end of rocket fire from Lebanon
By Sue Surkes
A slice of pizza. Beta-casein, successfully engineered into a plant at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, is one of the milk proteins responsible for making cheese melts. (Proformabooks, iStock by Getty Images)
August 16, 2026, 2:56 am
Milk from seeds: Israeli scientists produce key dairy protein from safflower plant
Hebrew University researchers say beta-casein, which helps cheese melt, can be found in ‘cream’ pressed from seeds, eradicating need for cows, and slashing costs and livestock emissions
By Sue Surkes
Hazy weather over Tel Aviv amid high levels of air pollution, April 18, 2024 (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)
August 28, 2025, 7:41 am
Israel’s greenhouse gas emissions have barely shifted since 2015 — report
Environment Ministry’s annual pollution index shows that share of fossil fuels in electricity generation highest among OECD countries in 2023. Pollution cost state NIS 37 billion
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative. Heatwave. (iStock by Getty Images)
April 21, 2025, 9:53 pm
Israel’s July temperatures over past eight years were 2.8°C higher than 1950-1979
In run-up to Earth Day, Taub Center also reports 1.8 degree jump in year-round average Israeli temperatures for period of 2014 to 2024, compared to 1950 to 1979
By Sue Surkes
A Russian Emergency Ministry truck is parked at the Listvyazhnaya mine, right, near Belovo, in the Kemerovo region of southwestern Siberia, Russia, November 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Sergei Gavrilenko)
November 26, 2021, 1:10 pm
Survivor found in Siberia coal mine after accident, as dozens presumed dead
20 fatalities confirmed, with another 31 people still missing inside the Listvyazhnaya mine, officials say
By Dasha Litvinova
Delegates gather inside the venue on another day at the COP26 UN Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. (AP/Alberto Pezzali)
November 9, 2021, 1:18 pm
With 40,000 delegates, COP26 radiates energy. But will it bring real change?
Despite high-profile pledges, new ideas and much hard, novel work, the world is still not close to meeting its climate goals, and some are skeptical that Glasgow is the solution
By Sue Surkes
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (left) meets Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, November 1, 2021. (Courtesy)
November 3, 2021, 2:35 pm
Daily Briefing Nov. 3 – In Glasgow, Bennett does some diplomatic speed-dating
Diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman and environmental reporter Sue Surkes discuss their reporting at the climate conference in Glasgow
By ToI Staff
The Orot Rabin power station, seen from the Hadera Stream Park, Hadera, northern Israel, on November 25, 2017. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
August 30, 2021, 6:16 am
Government report finds Israel methane emissions much higher than world averages
In annual report, Environmental Protection Ministry assesses emissions cost state NIS 12.9 billion ($4 billion) in damage to public health and environment last year
By Sue Surkes
In this Feb. 17, 2021 file photo, a floating dock sits on the lakebed of the Suesca lagoon, in Suesca, Colombia (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)
August 9, 2021, 12:46 pm
Humanity almost entirely to blame for hotter Earth: The key UN report findings
With dire warning over the state of the planet, intergovernmental panel says global warming is unfolding more quickly than feared
By Marlowe HOOD and Patrick Galey
People walk along a trail, July 11, 2021, in Death Valley National Park, California (AP/John Locher)
July 20, 2021, 7:46 pm
Hotter here, wetter there: How and why climate change will remake our world
A basic primer on the science behind global warming and why Israel’s location makes it particularly susceptible to the effects of a heating planet
By Sue Surkes
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