August 5, 2007

By Tzafrir Rinat, Haaretz Correspondent

The cabinet on Sunday approved a second five-year term for Israel Nature and Parks Authority Chairman Eli Amitay, despite criticism of his management.

August 4, 2007

SCIENCE FILE

The chemicals used in cleanup efforts harm reefs more than the oil itself does, researchers say.
By Alison Williams
Times Staff Writer

Chemicals frequently used to clean up oil spills in marine environments turn out to be more toxic to coral reefs than the oil itself, researchers said this week.

DEMOCRACY

By Karin Kloosterman August 03, 2007

Doctor Livingstone, Columbus, and Neil Armstrong had at least one thing in common: all three were keen on chartering new territory. Today it isn't so easy for adventurers to set their sails towards land never before encountered. Instead, the adventurous are turning to other realms of discovery - bridging the distance between cultures.

By Karin Kloosterman August 03, 2007

Doctor Livingstone, Columbus, and Neil Armstrong had at least one thing in common: all three were keen on chartering new territory. Today it isn't so easy for adventurers to set their sails towards land never before encountered. Instead, the adventurous are turning to other realms of discovery - bridging the distance between cultures.

Aug. 5, 2007

Shmuley Boteach

Every year my family and I take a summer RV trip out into nature. This year we are in Alaska, where I am filming a family TV show. The beauties of this wondrous land are difficult to describe but are perhaps best captured in the words of a secular Jewish lawyer friend of mine who said that seeing Alaska was like seeing the face of God.

Aug. 2, 2007

meredith price

Every night before Ron Shani's father dropped him off at the children's house in
Kibbutz Amiad, he would ask whether he wanted to hear a story about an inventive
patent or world news. "It didn't matter which one I picked, he always told me a
story about water," says Shani, 39, an engineer. "This is where my knowledge of
water originated. I grew up learning about water filters and solutions from my
father."

August 4, 2007

By The Associated Press

Israel is reviving plans for a nuclear power plant in the Negev Desert, Army Radio quoted Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (Labor) as saying on Friday.

August 5, 2007

By Tzafrir Rinat, Haaretz Correspondent

The cabinet on Sunday approved a second five-year term for Israel Nature and Parks Authority Chairman Eli Amitay, despite criticism of his management.

Aug. 1, 2007

Judy Siegel-Itzkovich

A group of Israeli bee experts has gone to the US to study the reasons for the mysterious reduction in that country's bee population, which threaten to affect Israeli bees as well.

By Hana Namrouqa

AMMAN -- The Ministry of Environment has instructed 16 farms in the Ghor to
relocate to areas removed from residential neighbourhoods after repeated
complaints of foul odours being emitted from their premises, a ministry
official said on Saturday.

August 3, 2007

By Hana Namrouqa

AMMAN -- The Cabinet last week approved awarding a tender for the sale of carbon
dioxide generated from the Rihab electricity generating plant in Mafraq to a US
company.

Aug. 5, 2007

Hani Hazaimeh

AMMAN -- The emergence of 11 diarrhoea cases over the weekend in the Rihab District of Mafraq does not constitute another water pollution crisis in the governorate, a district official said on Saturday.

Daily Star staff

BEIRUT: USAID inaugurated five water-treatments plants in Haytoura, Ayshiyyeh, Ghobbatieh/Benwati, Wadi Jezzine and Snayyah in Jezzine District, South Lebanon, according to a USAID statement. The inauguration was attended by mission director Raouf Youssef, Haytoura Mayor Elias Rashed, Ayshiyyeh Municipality vice president Youssef Fares, Wadi Jezzine Mayor Robert Abu Suleiman, Benwati Mayor Mounir Rbeih and Snayyah Mayor Joseph Nawfal

MEDIA RELEASE

WORLD BANK TO HOLD FIRST SET OF PUBLIC HEARINGS ON "RED DEAD" CANAL PROJECT

On Sunday, August 12th, the World Bank will hold its first public hearing on the
Terms of Reference of the Feasibility Study for the "Red Dead Conduit" project.

By Michael J. Caduto

News from the Middle East usually describes conflicts and their root causes in
politics, religious fundamentalism and the struggle between Israelis and
Palestinians for a homeland. Threats to peace and security are indeed a
backdrop for daily existence, but that is only part of the story.