Israel: a national climate calculation centre to predict the regional impact of global warming

The Israeli government has approved the establishment of a national climate calculation centre to predict the regional impact of global warming. The new research...

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Dr. Rei Chemke - Weizmann’s Earth and Planetary Sciences Department

Weizmann Institute: Harder Winters, Stronger Storms, New Data Reveals Climate Change Might Be More Rapid than Predicted

The Earth’s climate is changing faster than we expected. A new study led by the Weizmann Institute of Science reveals that storms in the...

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Dr. Keren Agay-Shay

BIU (Israel): Consistent links between high and low temperatures and low birth weight

An Israeli nation-wide study of more than 600,000 births, led by a researcher at Bar-Ilan University’s Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, reveals consistent links between...

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Self-organization of plants in spatial patterns. Stripe pattern of Acacia trees (photo BGU)

BGU Proposes Utilizing Ecosystem Complexity to Mitigate Ecosystem Response to Climate Extremes

Climate change and the prospect of more frequent and intense climate extremes, such as prolonged droughts, threaten many services that plant communities provide to...

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photo KKL-JNF

KKL-JNF and NASA: Climate warming, a new survey to identify the tallest trees (Zavit)

A new terrestrial survey based on NASA satellite photos has identified the tallest trees in Israel. Which trees are they, where can they be...

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Whole-plant imaging of stress responses in potato plants (Hebrew U.)

Hebrew U. Develops Bio-Sensor to Detect Early Signs of Plant Stress and Prevent Crop Failures from Worldwide Climate Changes

In an effort to increase agricultural productivity and limit waste, a team of researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU)’s Robert H. Smith...

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Photos of corals in the Gulf of Aqaba courtesy Prof. Maoz Fine, Bar-Ilan University

Global warming (Bar-Ilan U.) : Northern Red Sea corals live close to the threshold of resistance to cold temperature

Coral reefs are one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems on earth. In the northern Red Sea and Gulf of Aqaba corals also have...

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Crédit photos: Tal Idan

(Français) Université de Tel-Aviv : le réchauffement de l’eau de mer provoque la mort des éponges

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