Environment

With fewer fish in the sea with each passing year, Israel's Grow Fish Anywhere has found a way to grow them in the desert.

A new centre in India supported by Israel will try to achieve high quality production of vegetables

A garden on the rooftop cools down the buliding during the hot summer days, saves energy, reduce noise and atrracks birds. A new trend coming out, of all places, from Jerusalem.

A non-profit organization activists encouraged passers-by to help clean out the streets from cigarette buds and in return gave out flower.

Israel has a major project underway to build a gene bank of wild plants in danger of extinction. Scientists will even be able to re-introduce plants that have gone extinct.

Two scientists, one Israeli and one Palestinian, have recently started a close cooperation to address the growing regional problem of water shortage.

Israel's ministry of environmental protection has decided it will start paying citizens that produce energy from their organic garbage.

School kids will assist the Dead Sea to earn points in an international competition looking for the new Wonders of the world. [Photo by Tracy Hunter]

"The foundation of Israel's cleantech industry was laid with the beginning of the kibbutz (collective communities) movement at the start of the 20th century, even before the modern state of Israel was founded," according to expert.

When a team of Israeli marine researchers took off on a two and a half week voyage aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus, the robot-equipped research ship of Titanic discoverer Robert Ballard, they knew they were in for surprises, but they didn't realize how big.