Timothy Snyder's 2015 suggestion that Hitler's campaign against the Jews was part of an ecological war takes on new resonance today, as the climate crisis raises the specter of genocidal battles over food supplies
The rains have restored the freshwater marshes of southern Iraq, a region some scholars see as the biblical Garden of Eden transforming lands once parched for water into fields of grain and cereal
It takes a world, not a village, to fix the problem we created, but the technology (mostly) already exists, says the architect of the Paris Agreement and co-winner of this year’s Dan David Prize
Whether motivated by considerations of kashrut or sheer laziness, sales of single-use tableware soar on holidays
Mount Hermon sees snow, while thunderstorms and hail hit the north and center of the country ■ Flash floods may occur in the Jordan valley, Judean desert and Dead Sea
Activists disrupted travel through London for six straight days and are calling on the British government to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2025
Conventional wisdom challenged: Turns out the exodus began a century before conquest, and for different reasons
Although unable to fully explain the phenomenon, scientists point out that the sharks' draw to the the warm water around the Hadera plant parallels their migration to the warming Mediterranean
A 30-year drought coupled with a population explosion have put increased pressure on Tehran's water aquifers. Increased water pumping has caused soil particles to pack closer together, leading the ground to sink.
The slow-circulating deep Pacific is still cooling almost 200 years after the Little Ice Age ended, with worrying implications for the anthropogenic age
Water Authority researchers say water supply to Israel's only fresh water lake will decline by at least 12 percent over the next century, but experts fail to agree why
Polish summit president hailed final text as 'a thousand little steps forward together,' but critics say it is not ambitious enough
Jeremy Ornstein, 18, was part of a sit-in outside of Nancy Pelosi’s D.C. office last week, during which he emotionally recounted his family’s Holocaust history: ‘What I do know is that everyone has a story to share,’ he tells Haaretz
Groundbreaking study connects the interplay of dangers and warns that policies don’t even see the problems, let alone offer solutions
An oligarch does as much damage to the climate in a day as an average person does in five years, according to a leading anthropologist and environmental researcher. Nevertheless, he remains hopeful
Dan David Prize winner and bioethics expert Jonathan Glover explains why we shouldn’t kill even if life is not ‘sacred,’ how to overcome tribalism, and his mental exercise for Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers
16-year-old in south and 17-year-old in West Bank die after being swept away in floods; Tel Aviv airport closed
Scientists moved the symbolic clock ahead by half a minute, saying the world is at its closest to annihilation since the height of the Cold War
Projections on climate change by 2100 have been too optimistic and emission curbig targets are too low, warn Carnegie Institute scientists
Storms will ease off Tuesday afternoon, but wintry weather will continue tomorrow
Effects of global climate change can now be felt in Israel, where most of the record-hitting hot summer months have come during the last seven years
Adrian Luckman, a professor at the University of Swansea in Wales told Reuters that his team reckons the ice will break off within months, perhaps in days or years
Temperatures expected to approach 120 degrees Fahrenheit; smaller regional jets cannot fly once temperatures hit 118 degrees
Trump has decided to open the gates of hell. Without saying so explicitly, he’s saying: Come here, ecological catastrophe, let’s fight it out
President Trump talks tough about ‘America First,’ but virtually no one in Washington or Wall Street backs him and it’s not going to go anywhere
A certain golf course and Nikki Haley show the U.S. president just doesn’t believe in consequences. Après lui, le deluge
In nixing Paris deal, Trump becomes a hero to his base and a villain to the world
It's time American media stop selling the unfounded theory that the first daughter can alter the direction of her father’s administration