Category: Weather & Climate
The Containers. Photo By Ofer Snir
Say No to Overflow: a Solution Against Floods?
A new Israeli invention – rainwater storage tanks to be placed on residential buildings and controlled by a computerized system – may reduce the load on the drainage systems in cities, thereby helping to minimize the dangerous floods Israel has encountered in the recent winters
Photo by Stuart Rankin, Flickr, Edited NASA visualization, CC BY-NC 2.0
If We Want to Save Our Planet, We Need to Think Out of This World
Although many people might not be aware of it, NASA doesn't just deal with space – it also does a great deal to study the Earth's climate – and the way it's changing today
Hotter Summers, Higher Health Risks
A new Israeli study from the Technion finds an uninterrupted rise in the country’s temperature and humidity rates. Not only does this feel unpleasant, it is also dangerously unhealthy long-term
Photo by Alex Belogub on Unsplash
The Plight of Next-Generation Trees
A new Israeli study finds young forest trees struggling to reach maturity due to the harsh drought conditions intensified by the climate crisis.
Photo by Yonatan Bar-Yosef
Let’s Pool it Together
As climate change and land development projects persist around the world, vernal pools are becoming increasingly difficult to protect around the world. How are they faring in Israel, and what can be done to preserve those that remain?
Photo by Daniel Peters on Unsplash
Make Forests Resilient Again
With climate change warnings reaching unprecedented new levels, how will our forests cope? A new study reveals how effective Israeli forests are in sequestering carbon from the atmosphere and what needs to be done to improve their resiliency to the climate crisis.
Photo courtesy of Yaron Ben Nun.
Putting Buildings on Ice
With renewable energy storage lacking and demand for indoor cooling spiking, an Israeli company has found a sustainable way to supply both.
Photo by Marta Wróblewska on Pixabay
The Branch Doesn’t Fall Too Far from the Tree
Just as buildings require maintenance, so do municipal planted trees. Researchers warn of an overlooked life-threatening phenomenon: falling branches in the summertime.
Photo by Joshua Hoehne on Unsplash
The Next Step in Mitigating Food Waste
Try to visualize the combined weight of 5.5 million blue whales, the largest animal on the planet. We’re generating more food waste than that every year, globally. Can a new food pricing initiative lower Israel’s enormous annual food wastage?
Photo by RFERL
Is Gender Inequality Sabotaging Our Fight Against Climate Change?
Countries aren’t moving fast enough to meet the environmental targets for 2050 set by the Paris Agreement. Addressing underlying gender inequality may be the key to picking up the pace, something that Israel has just begun to tackle.
Weather & Climate
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