Climate Change

Environmental org distances itself from boycott of Jewish groups

The national Sunrise movement says it did not have advance notice of DC affiliate’s broadside against Jewish groups.

Jewish climate activists arrested during Manhattan protest

Nine Jewish climate change activists arrested at protest outside Manhattan headquarters of investment management company.

Israel's president launches new forum to fight climate change

Former communist party MK Dov Khenin tapped to lead Israel's new Climate Forum.

Greta Thunberg at climate event: 'Blah blah blah'

Young climate activist Greta Thunberg didn't sound very optimistic about the prospects of a 'green' future at a youth event.

JNF Canada offering $1m to Israelis combating climate change

JNF Canada to award $1m annually to Israelis combating the climate crisis through innovation – the largest incentive prize of its kind.

Israel lays out plans against climate change

In response to the grim UN report on intensifying climate change, Israel has laid out plans to protect the planet.

Climate crisis: 'Human influence is to blame'

US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield responded to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report

Climate czar John Kerry blasted for family's use of private jet

Questions raised about how Kerry can claim to be working on effort to fight carbon emissions while his family takes trips in private jet.

Israel plans massive fossil fuel cuts

Cabinet unanimously approves initiative to transition Israel to a low-carbon economy, cutting carbon emissions by 2050.

Energy Sec. considers climate change's role in condo disaster

Biden's Secretary of State for Energy discusses possibility that climate change was the culprit in Surfside condo collapse.

Earth Day – the crisis is for real?

We are led to see climate as an existential threat to life. Hysteria creates fear and fear makes people believe what they’re told. Op-ed.

'Let my wife come home' - Biden's bizarre rant

President Biden went on a strange, bewildering rant about his wife spending too much time with Navajo Indians at a recent climate summit.

Foreign Minister Ashkenazi showcases Israel's fight for Earth

The Foreign Minister displayed Israeli technology to fight climate change to an international audience.

Greta Thunberg statue unveiled: 'Committed to social justice'

$33,000 life-size sculpture of climate change activist Greta Thunberg unveiled at University of Winchester Tuesday.

U.S.-Israel foundation helps to combat climate crisis

Funding will be provided by the BIRD energy program. The initiative seeks to foster U.S.-Israeli innovation through strategic partnerships.

The green old deal

Rabbi Yonatan Neril talks about the environment, about climate change and about what you should do to care for our planet.

Environmentalism is anti-biblical civilizational suicide

Population control is a way of destroying Western civilization using climate control as a ruse. The West is not overpopulated. Op-ed.

A wrong message to Iran’s mullahs

The consensus is that the Iranian threat exists and the ballistic missiles it developed pose a serious risk to the security of Europe.Op-ed.

Unpleasant news for Thomas Friedman

Friedman's dire predictions have not come true, but Israelis are not complaining. What will he decide to do? Op-ed.

Thomas Friedman’s wacky new Mideast peace plan

The teenager and the T-G boundary: Why is Greta Thunberg listened to?

Trump to Greta Thunberg: Chill! Go to a movie with a friend

Pres. Donald Trump responds to a tweet congratulating the 16-yr.-old Swedish activist for being named Time's Person of the Year.

Environmentalists trivialize the Holocaust

How millennials differ from US to Israel

US begins process of withdrawing from Paris accord

Trump begins yearlong process of withdrawing the US from the Paris climate accord, a promise he made in 2017.

British rabbi, 77, arrested at London climate change protest

Rabbi of north London Reform synagogue arrested and carried off while protesting climate change.

Antisemitism on the rise and Jews are divided

Ocasio-Cortez: $10 trillion needed to combat climate change

'It’s not politically popular, people are going to call it unrealistic, and I just don’t think people understand how bad the problem is.'

Congresswoman predicts end of world in another 12 years

Alexandria Ochio-Cortez speaks in context of 'global climate change'.

Report: North Africa, Middle East, may become unlivable

Extreme temperatures in North Africa and the Gulf states may render the region unlivable.

NY Times says climate change more dangerous than N. Korean nukes

France: All gas, diesel-powered cars to be banned by 2040

President Macron unveils new environmental program, including total ban on all conventional cars by 2040.

'We need to minimize the risks'

Israel’s government takes climate change seriously. Here's how.

Watch Live: Trump pulls US out of Paris climate accord

President Trump announces end of American membership in Paris climate accord.

Al Jazeera's anti-Semitic post sparks outrage

Qatar-based media outlet blames 'Talmudic plan of world domination' for global warming skepticism, uses anti-Semitic caricature.

Merkel: Britain, US no longer reliable security partners

German Chancellor says Europe must take destiny into its own hands after Brexit, Trump election.

Watch: an artistic way to describe climate change

Artist paints murals on natural backdrops to raise awareness of climate change

Trump appoints EPA critic to head environmental agency

President-elect Donald Trump has selected Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency.

John Kerry compares 'threat of refrigerators' to ISIS

Says war on green-house gas 'equally important' to war on ISIS, will save lives.

Paris climate change deal accepted

After days of discussion, international conference calls to halt global warming by no more than 2 degrees Celsius.

Prince Charles says Syria war linked to climate change

Heir to British throne links years-long drought to Syrian civil war which followed, ahead of global climate summit in Paris.

Tens of Thousands Demand Action Against Global Warming

Protestors gathered in Washington to generate pressure on President Barack Obama to take concrete measures to fight global warming.

Durban UN Climate Conference Ends with Mostly Talk, No Action

An all-night weekend session at the UN climate change convention in Durban, South Africa ends with few agreements but little real action.

PA Blocked from Sneaky Statehood Ploy at UN Climate Conference

A slick attempt by the Palestinian Authority to gain statehood at a UN conference on climate change is stymied by the US and Israel.

Arab Nations May Be Waking Up Too Late to Climate Change

Arab nations are only now beginning to wake up to the dangers of climate change and the impact it will have on their people and way of life.

Old City to Turn Off the Lights

The Old City of Jerusalem will go dark Thursday night as part of Israel's participation in “Earth Hour.”