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In Israeli desert, world’s highest solar tower looks to future

(AFP) In the middle of southern Israel’s desert, engineers are hard at work building the world’s tallest solar tower, reflecting the country’s high hopes for renewable energy. Once completed in late 2017, the Ashalim Tower will rise to 240 meters (787 feet), taller than Paris’s Montparnasse Tower and London’s Gherkin, according to the Israeli government […]

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Middle East, The World We Share, USA

Down Under author produces a cli-fi novel

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –If there’s one continent on Earth where the twin impacts of global warming and climate change are very much on the minds of the people who live there, it’s Australia. It’s doesn’t help that the Australian government is lagging behind on legislating progressive climate change policies, but there’s something about

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, The World We Share

Lizards, humans losing homes to climate change

 Israel’s friends in the Western Pacific: Marshall Islands An unfortunate and dangerous commonality persists among conversations concerning human-driven climate change. Often, the consequences of climate change are spoken of as something that will take place in the future, something that is decades from now. Naively, many even talk as if it is something that is

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International, The World We Share

Character Day 2016 will be September 22

SAN FRANCISCO, California (Press Release)– Building on the global success and momentum of Character Day 2015, in which hundreds of thousands participated and viewed the films The Making of a Mensch and The Adaptable Mind, Emmy-nominated filmmaker Tiffany Shlain’s nonprofit Let it Ripple this year will broaden the initiative’s reach that uses film and discussion

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Jewish Religion, The World We Share, USA

Arab politics preclude solving people’s water needs

Let There be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World by Seth M. Siegel; Thomas Dunne Book, 2015. 352 pp. $27.99 By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — This book will make you cry. Or stamp your feet or beat your head against a wall. The narrative is familiar. Israel, a (once) poor country in the middle of an

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, The World We Share

Deadly Fish Virus Finally Identified

A mysterious virus that has decimated tilapia fish stocks in Ecuador and Israel has finally been identified by an international team of scientists. The virus, dubbed tilapia lake virus, was long suspected to be behind mass die offs of valuable farmed tilapia in Ecuador and Israel since 2009. In a paper published in the journal

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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share