At the beginning of the nineteenth century, early settlers who decided to settle in the lands of Israel faced a huge challenge: how to farm in conditions of sweltering heat and minimal rainfall. The ...

Living next to the Chinese-owned Zijin mines, villagers near Bor in eastern Serbia and Panjakent in western Tajikistan face the same threat: poisoned air, degraded farmland, and no recourse. At ...

Israel’s Ambassador and Special Envoy for Climate Change and Sustainability, Gideon Behar, who is also the country’s Ambassador-designate to Kenya, ...

Years after Israel’s invasions, ... meandered through the village’s olive grove, checking on their decades-old trees. Some had been uprooted from the fertile soil, their roots left bare. ... Aoun said ...

Finally, one of the great signs of national renewal has been our ability to transform a long-desolate land into a fertile, blooming country. But this year, the land burned.

A Climate Warning From the Fertile Crescent In Iraq, the landscape that cradled civilization is enduring a water crisis with profound implications. 2025-05-06T06:00:17-04:00 ...

Her favorite memory of the trip, she said, was boating on the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel, where, the Gospels say, Jesus walked on water and performed other miracles."Going to the Holy Land ...

Israel's military is expanding buffer zones inside the Gaza Strip and taking over more areas of the territory, shrinking land Palestinians can access by more than half.

Judaism, one of the world’s earliest monotheistic religions, emerged over 4,000 years ago in the ancient land of Israel. Its origins are traditionally linked to the patriarch Abraham, whose lineage ...

According to Khatib, some Ghajarites fled to Lebanon during the 1967 Six Day War, but “the Lebanese government dumped them at the Syrian border, telling them, ‘We don’t need more refugees.

A NUMBER of farmers in Shigar Churka, a remote area of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), are losing their land due to river overflowing the banks and diverting its flow. The strong water currents erode the ...