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Saving the World Means Leaving the Old Order Behind

Analysis Analysis |

Heat Wave Grips Israel and the Climate Models Are Melting

As Extreme Heat Grips Israel, Health Ministry Warns Against Outdoor Activities

Israeli Cabinet's Plan on the Reduction of Greenhouse Gases Is Not Enough

When Canada Was Hotter Than Baghdad

Fire in Santa Clarita, April 28, 2021

GOP Starts to See the Light of the Wildfires

A wind farm in Germany.

Cannibal Wind Farms, Beating Earth’s Orbit and Other Climate Change Briefs

A wildfire in California 14 years ago.

Arctic Warmer Than Jerusalem, Again, and Other Climate Change Briefs

A couple of common fruit bats hanging out.

4,300-year-old Bat Poo Pile May Tell Tale of Climatic Changes

A diver swimming above a coral reef in the Red Sea, offshore of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology near the city of Jedda.

Red Sea Corals Hate Climate Change, Because of the Cold Red Sea Corals Laugh Off Global Warming but Suffer in Cold Snaps

Demonstrators in Jerusalem protesting a lack of action on the climate crisis, January.

Israel’s Environmental Future? Not the Government’s Problem

Black smoke rises from oil refineries in Haifa, last year.

Israeli Ministries Compose Plan to Fight Climate Change Days Before U.S. Summit

Tourists walk at the beach during a low tide in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt February 2021.

Here's How Israel, Egypt and Jordan Can Fight Global Warming Together

Forest fire on Mount Carmel, 2010

Israel’s Financial Vitality Can’t Protect It From Climate Shocks

An ISS image of the smoke produced from the bushfires in Australia, at an altitude of 424 kilometers last year.

Israeli Scientists Show ‘Volcanic’ Global Impact of Australian Wildfires

Wave crashing into a seawall in Winthrop, Mass., March 2018, a day after a nor'easter

Oh Give Me a Home Where the Sharks Don’t Roam

Patagonia, Argentina glacier

Collapse of Greenland Ice Sheet to Raise Sea Level Faster Than Expected

Floodwaters spreading across the runway of Rockhampton Airport in 2011.

Can’t Land if the Runway Is Under Water, Plus the State of Gray Whales The Real Zombie Threat as the Arctic Thaws and Other Climate Briefs

Residents watch a forest first move closer in Quilpue, Chile, January 15, 2021.

Editorial Editorial |

The House Is Burning, and That's Not a Metaphor

The Israeli coastline at Jaffa

The Mediterranean Is Heating Up, Dealing a Devastating Blow to Region's Biodiversity The Mediterranean Is Heating Up, Dealing a Devastating Blow to the Region's Biodiversity

Extinction Rebellion climate change protesters march through Tel Aviv, September 27, 2019.

Two Years After Approval, Israel’s Climate Change Program Still Lacks Budget

Roast beef. Using a pressure cooker turns out to be good for the planet.

Cooking Our Beef and Planet, and Other Climate Change Briefs

Rescue crews search for people in distress after Hurricane Harvey caused heavy flooding in Houston, Texas on August 27, 2017

Stormy Weather Ahead: Pollution Found to Cause Fierce Gales in Coastal Cities

A bird flying above the greenery on Mount Carmel, November 2020.

Ten Years After Israel’s Worst Forest Fire, Mount Carmel Awaits Its Next Blaze

A man holding a cross and a Bible preaches about Christianity backdropped by the Royal Exchange, back center, and the Bank of England, at left, during England's second coronavirus lockdown in the City of London financial district of London, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020

Climate Change Briefs: Death by Heat on Land and at Sea

Past the tipping point for global warming? (Kilauea, illustration)

Climate Change Briefs: Earth Passed Temperature Tipping Point Decades Ago

A garbage sorting plant in Tel Aviv, January 27, 2013.

Israel Throws Away a Third of Its Food, and the Environmental Damage Is Enormous

Demonstrators protesting in front of the White House during a rally against President Donald Trump's Energy Independence executive order, March 28, 2017.

Eight Ways Trump Has Harmed the Most Important Struggle in Human History

The unearthed ancient riverside Turkish settlement in Tell Tayinat.

The Lesson of the Ancient Town That Survived Climate Change

Harvested olives near Deir Istiya in the West Bank, October 2020.

Extreme Heat Dashes Palestinian Olive Farmers’ Hopes for a Good Year

An Antarctic krill, the startimage of the virtual microscope http://www.ecoscope.com/cybermic/index.htm of krill where you can click into details of the animal to get higher magnifications

Kill Krill: A Base of the Food Chain May Be at Risk

Grouper in warming seas

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Dead Fish: Beware ‘The Blob’

Bathers at Wadi Kelt, also known as Nahal Prat, in the West Bank, September, 2020.

This Was the Hottest September Ever Recorded in Israel

An artistic impression of Venus, where scientists have confirmed the detection of phosphine molecules in the atmosphere, a representation of which is shown in the inset.

The Meaning of Life on Venus, and Other Climate Change Briefs

Prayer flags

Scientists Find New Way Climate Change Can Ruin Life as We Know It

Amazon on fire

Hot in the Holy City: Jerusalem Breaks 120-year Record

Ariel Yoav Tsafrir.

19-year-old Dies of Heat Stroke at a Party in Southern Israel as Temperatures Soar

Visitors at a spring in the outskirts of Jerusalem, August 30, 2020.

Jerusalem Breaks Temperature Record as Heat Wave Wallops Israel

Beachgoers in Tel Aviv playing games as the heat wave continues, August 2020.

Israel Struck by Yet Another Heat Wave

A flooded road in Karachi, Pakistan, August 27, 2020.

Monsoon Rains Wreak Havoc Across Pakistan, Killing 36 People

Crevasses form on top of a glacier in Greenland, June 2018.

How Cold Was the Last Ice Age? The Answer May Surprise You

The Sahara Once this was green

UAE Among Nations Vulnerable to Deadly Weather Spikes

Greenland glaciers calving

Greenland Ice Has Passed the Tipping Point

The beach in Tel Aviv on a sunny day.

Study: Temperatur in Israel Will Rise 4 Degrees by 2100 if Climate Change Not Curbed Temperature in Israel Will Rise 4 Degrees by 2100 if Climate Change Not Curbed, Study Shows

Planpincieux Glacier is falling

Clear and Immediate Danger in Jorasses Park

An Iraqi woman cools down with water from a hose in Tahrir Square in the capital Baghdad, on August 1, 2020,

Commemorating a Patriarch in a Heat Wave

The white microbial mats seen here are telltale signs of areas where methane may be released from underground methane deposits.

Climate Change Briefs: It’s Raining, It’s Pouring, Alaska’s Permafrost Is Thawing

Iraqis swimming in the Tigris River in central Baghdad, June 29, 2020. All the pools have been closed due to the COVID-19 crisis as Iraq faces a heat wave.

Let Us Count the Ways the Heat Can Kill You: It’s 27

An aardvark in the Kalahari Desert, South Africa.

Why Aardvarks Are Becoming Diurnal Why Aardvarks Have Started Eating During the Day

Smoke and steam rise from a coal processing plant in Hejin in central China's Shanxi Province, November 28, 2019.

World Could Break Temperature Threshold by 2025, UN Agency Predicts

A file photograph taken on January 30, 2018 shows a view of the Pyrenees mountains from the Observatory of the Pic du Midi, one of France's tallest mountains, in Bagneres-de-Bigorre. - The Pyrenean glaciers and their unique ecosystem have entered into an inescapable agony under the effect of global warming, with the horizon of a dreaded disappearance within thirty years, according to glaciologists who document the decline

We’re No. 1: Global Warming Has Surpassed Global Cycle

A wolf spider in Alaska.

Unexpected Forecast for Warming Arctic: Spiders Galore

Record heat. A fisherman casts into the surf Tuesday, May 5, 2020, in Huntington Beach, California after a heat wave.

Heat May Be Killing More Americans Than We Thought

Plastic waste on the beach of the Costa del Este neighborhood in Panama City, on June 08, 2020

It’s Raining Plastic and Billions More 'Are Projected to Accumulate'

This image released by the Chilean Antarctic Institute shows Antarctica without snow at Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva on Fildes Bay, King George Island, on February 14, 2020

Climate Change Forecast: Rising Tide of Parasites in Warming Seas