Environment

A 'man of the world', Moshe Safdie's name has been synonymous with nature-driven architecture since he revealed his Habitat 67 to millions of spectators in 1967. Now he's got an incredible bio-dome at Singapore's Changi Airport in the works that's set to the stun the world.

If there's one sector that has yet to go green, it's the fashion industry. But now and Israeli fabric printing company Kornit is encouraging designers to print their designs using their sustainable eco-friendly ink, beginning with the FIT in New York.

NASA and Israel Aerospace Industries have come together to create a revolutionary new solution to urban traffic and pollution. Meet the skyTran: a high-speed, computerized and green method of metropolitan transportation that may soon be coming to a city near you.

By 2050, one-third of the world's energy will need to come from renewable sources, like solar or wind. No, this isn't a statement made by environmental organizations, but by two of the world’s largest oil companies, British Petroleum and Shell. These seven Israeli companies are sure to make our futures brighter with alternative energy technology based on solar, wave, geothermal and waste sources.

Researchers at Ben Gurion University have discovered the incredible climate-conscious way that scorpions construct their desert burrows, with complex mechanisms to prepare themselves, physically and mentally, for the nighttime hunt.

An Israeli-developed “mini-farm” that can grow vegetables anywhere with a self-sustaining “closed loop” of energy and nutrition and help feed a billion needy people has won a prize as the most promising project to help developing countries improve their economies.

Take a sneak peak at Israel's greenest building, Tel Aviv University's Porter School of Environmental Studies. The structure was built to maximize natural light, runs on renewable energy and even has its own "EcoWall" with special labs for ecological experimentation.

Archaeologists at Tel Aviv University recently discovered that domesticated camels are not the Israeli invention that the Bible makes them out to be. Their findings have allowed them to push the date of Israeli domesticated camels back from the 12th century BCE to the 9th century BCE.

The eight-tentacled king of the sea, the octopus, has a long list of daily threats to its life, but now researchers have discovered that knotting itself into oblivion isn't one of them.

Scientists at the Ben Gurion University in the Negev have made a disturbing finding on the effects of CO2 levels on the nutritional value of the food we eat. They say that crops that provide a large share of the global population with most of their dietary zinc and iron will no longer have those nutrients.

Passover is also known as the "Festival of Spring", and a new exhibition in Tel Aviv taking place over the holiday is in the season's spirit of renewal. The "Green Exhibition," presented by design students, is all about recycling and sustainable thinking.

When you think of a stingly, gooey jellyfish, the last thing that would ever come to mind is smooth toilet paper. But you may have to rethink your opinion of the creature, as an Israeli company is using the raw material to create absorbing cloths.

While smartphone technology continuously progesses, batteries hardly have. Now, an Israeli company has created the technology to manufacture phones that can charge in half a minute. Not only that, their technology is based on organic and eco-friendly materials.

How frustrating would it be if the success of your business was dependent on the forces of nature? Well, for millions of farmers worldwide – that is reality. Israeli app AgriTask uses data gathered from many farmers to give single farmers an advantage over mother nature.

Nothing says "I love you" more than a salad. No. Not really. But a new Israeli crop, the heart-shaped cucumber, is a good start. Grown in the Israeli desert using Spanish methods, the uniquely-shaped vegetable will soon be available in supermarkets throughout the country.