With over 600 companies and startups in Cleantech, Israel has over the years gained the status of a high-quality international player in this field.

The Red Sea Transnational Research Center will include scientists from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Eritrea, Sudan, Yemen, and Djibouti.

A number of Israel-based companies and startups are doing their part to curb climate change and help save our planet.

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.

While the sun is responsible for 60 to 70 percent of the world's temperature changes, the rest has to do with greenhouse gasses. An Israeli researcher has invented a novel way of measuring climate change – using radio waves.

Though the cause for global warming is still open to debate, its effects are not. Now, alongside troubling phenomena such as desertification and glacier-melting, it seems that it may also be the cause for the spreading of the West Nile virus.

Global warming is causing genetic changes in wild cereal grains in Israel, a recent study by University of Haifa reveals. Researchers fear that these changes could endanger future food production.