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Climate Change

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The Data Is Irrefutable: Israeli Winter Is Going Extinct

Once we wore coats and scarves during Hanukkah, but these days people are going to the beach in Tel Aviv

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At COP15, Even When the Goal Is to Protect Nature, the Money Still Comes First

The Ottawa River Singers, a group of Indigenous musicians, welcome delegates to the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) on Saturday.

The World Looked to Egypt, but Canada May Decide the Planet’s Fate

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Will Politics Kill a ‘Win-win’ Deal to Swap Israeli Water for Jordanian Solar Power?

Historic Compensation Fund for Developing Nations Approved at UN Climate Talks

Tensions Rise at UN Climate Conference Over Softened Global Warming Pledge

China’s Climate Envoy to Haaretz: We Have Returned to Informal Talks With the U.S.

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President Herzog speaks at the UN climate summit, Tuesday.

Fossil Fuel Execs Among Israel's COP27 Delegation, Despite Being Chief Polluters

Israel's Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg at the meeting in Sharm El-Sheikh, on Tuesday.

Israeli, Iraqi, Lebanese, Palestinian Leaders Agree on Climate Cooperation in Rare Meeting

President of Israel Isaac Herzog delivers his speech at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27 in Egypt on November 7, 2022.

Fact-checking Herzog's Claim That Israel Is Committed to Fighting Global Warming

United Arab Emirates' President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan meets with Israel's President Isaac Herzog, during the Cop27 summit at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, November 7, 2022.

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Please Don’t Deny the Climate Crisis

Israel's President Isaac Herzog meets with UAE counterpart Mohammed bin Zayed at the COP27 climate conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, today.

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Israel's Herzog Arrives at COP27, Meets UAE President and King of Jordan

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The 10 Worst Impacts of Climate Change (That We Know of So Far)

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi speaks during the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, today.

U.S. Angered by Egyptian Demand That West Pays Global South to Deal With Climate Crisis

Demonstrators at the climate march in Tel Aviv, today.

Thousands March in Tel Aviv to Protest Israeli Politicians' Inaction on Climate Change

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Un-draining the Swamp: Rewilding Project Aims to Resurrect Israeli Wetlands

A fishbone lies on a dry part of the bed of the River Loire at Montjean-sur-Loire, in 2019.

Israeli Government to Require All Its Ministries to Submit Climate Crisis Prep Plan, Again

The Ashkelon power station, in April.

Israel Walks Back on Bennett's Promise at UN Climate Summit Last Year

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The New Greta Thunberg? Israel's Climate Warrior President Has a Plan to Save the Planet

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As the World's Governments Prepare for Rising Sea Levels, Israel Turns a Blind Eye

A man stands in Shatt al-Arab River with flames rising from oil refinery pipes in the background in Basra, Iraq.

Researchers Find Real Reason the Air Quality in the Middle East Is So Bad

The projected rise in sea level on a beach in Haifa over the next 30 years.

Israeli Security Council Holds Emergency Meetings on Rising Sea Level After Haaretz Report

The projected rise in sea level on a beach in Haifa over the next 30 years.

Facing Rapid Rise in Sea Levels, Israel Could Lose Large Parts of Its Coastline by 2050

The dried out bed of the Lac des Brenets' part of the Doubs river, a natural border between eastern France and western Switzerland, in July.

Israel to Allocate Hundreds of Millions of Shekels to Climate Crisis Research

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The Diary of a Bathmodon Who Had a Really Big Baby 62 Million Years Ago

Escaping the heat in Jerusalem, 2022.

Israel Braces for Hottest Week of the Year

A lightning strike at fuel storage tanks on land, next to a supertanker seaport in Matanzas, Cuba, August 2022

Israeli Scientists Figure Out Why Lightning Strikes More Often on Land Than at Sea

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Jewish Law Above All: Recordings Reveal Far-right MK's Plan to Turn Israel Into Theocracy

Why I’m Turning My Back on My Jewish Identity

Down and Out: Why These New Immigrants Ended Up Leaving Israel

The Reality Behind ‘The White Lotus’ Sex Work Fantasy

This ‘Dystopian’ Cyber Firm Could Have Saved Mossad Assassins From Exposure

Comeback Kid: How Netanyahu Took Back Power After 18 Months in Exile

The American Billionaires Behind the Far-right Attempt to Destroy Liberal Israel

Young People – Whether Jews or Palestinians – Need to Reinvent Politics

Netanyahu Claimed Arabs Expelled Jews From the Land of Israel – Historians Say He Is Wrong

Head of Israel’s Top Art Academy Leads a Quiet Revolution

The Math Prodigy Who Thinks Kids Should Be Taught the Google and Netflix Algorithms

Ken Burns’ Brilliant ‘The U.S. and the Holocaust’ Has Only One Problem

Israel May Have Caught the Worst American Disease, New Research Shows

Why the Head of ACLU’s Human Rights Program Has Regrets About Emigrating From Israel

Netanyahu’s Election Win Dealt a Grievous Blow to Judaism

Who Is a Jew? If Israel’s Next Government Has Its Way, Not These People

‘Place the Material in the Wells’: Docs Point to Israeli Army’s 1948 Biological Warfare

Do American Jews Really Know What 'Zionist' Means?