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A Haifa University study suggests that asbestos exposure might have damaged DNA of descendant rats from areas near the spot where the Eitanit factory - Israel's only asbestos producer - stood until it was shut down in 1997.

According to current estimations, the ash cloud is moving high in the atmosphere, and probably won't cause any travel disruptions or changes in the quality of air.

Some 1,600 species of wild plants are found in over 5,800 square kilometers in the PA, a relatively large number for the size of the area.

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat objects to limits imposed by Ministry of Environmental Protection on volume of trash municipality can dump at site near the city; Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan accuses mayor of condoning spread of pollution.

Legislative initiative would establish pollution emission registry to gather information on pollution emitted by facilities across Israel and make it available to the public; Proposal is similar to systems in place in other developed countries.

National Planning and Building Council appeals committee rejects most objections submitted by campaign in Wadi Ara area against creating ultra-Orthodox city at Harish; The approved plan is for 50,000 resident city.

Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel calls for a comprehensive plan that would give some of the remaining areas protected status under the law.

Celebrants up and down the country gather outdoors for Shavuot

Government ministers recently joined local environmentalists in demanding that the Dead Sea Works address the damage it has wrought in the area.

Israel Nature and Parks Authority brings together Jewish, Arab citizens on environmental projects.

Four bridges to be added to existing two at Tel Aviv's Ganei Yehoshua park; bridges' design chosen for its simplicity and minimal impact at construction sites.

Plan aims to improve living conditions for Bedouins currently living in unrecognized villages lacking necessary infrastructure, which results in severe environmental and other problems.

Excavation work by Israel Railways while working on high speed Jerusalem-Tel Aviv train line reveals cave with largest underground water sources ever discovered in Israel.

Carbon footprint is a measurement of the greenhouse gases produced from the activities of factories, organizations and governments.

Parts of Ramat Hovav, Hiriya dumps being turned into parks.

Several prominent preservationists and ecologists believe Let the Animals Live director Eti Altman represents ecologically damaging approach, because of her opposition to culling stray dogs and cats.

The Tourism Minister Stas announces his support for dredging salt from the Dead Sea Works' industrial evaporation pool in order to prevent the flooding of nearby hotels.

Treasury urges cheaper solution of demolishing and rebuilding the hotels

Many of city's beaches may soon join 3,500 others worldwide with the international quality rating

Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov and Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan want to dredge salt from Dead Sea southern half due to ecological problems, have Dead Sea Works foot the bill.

Call to scrap project follows campaigns opposing the holiday resoirt, by Israel Union for Environmental Defense and the Society for the Protection of Nature.

Carcinogen found at several locations in Tel Aviv area at four times recommended limit; dangerous amounts of benzene compound still detected at a distance of 30 meters from gas station.

A team of specialists has decided that it is better not to demolish and rebuild some of the hotels further inland, but instead to harvest the salt from the industrial pool near the hotels.

The ministry's main instrument of enforcement is the Green Police; according to state comptroller report ministry using faster, more effective procedures to crack down on offenders.