Pollution

FIFA World Cup 2026 to break records with 3.7 million tons of carbon emissions, Israeli firm finds

The tournament is being staged across three different countries, Canada, the US, and Mexico - a first in World Cup history, meaning teams and fans will have to travel extensively between host cities.

Soccer Football - World Cup - AFC Qualifiers - Third Round - Group A - Iran v United Arab Emirates - Azadi Sports Complex, Tehran, Iran - March 20, 2025.
A vendor organises textiles at a shop in Central Souq on July 22, 2015 in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

UAE launches Naseej initiative to tackle 220,000 tons of annual textile waste

Fine pollution particles penetrate deep into the lungs and cause oxidative stress

The food that protects your lungs from air pollution

THE VERTICAL green walls are transferred from decorative features into intelligent, responsive environmental systems

Breathing life into buildings: Israelis develop better ways to prevent indoor air pollution 


Insects in danger: Air pollution harms bugs' ability to find food, reproduce - study

The report provides evidence that tiny particles originating from air pollution, especially from human-related sources, adhere to the sensory organs of insects.

 An illustrative image of a fly.

Global boiling: How Israel urgently needs to adapt to climate change

"If we don't deal with [climate change], Israel will be a very unpleasant place to live in the next decade or two," Prof. Colin Price, head of  Tel Aviv University's PlanNet Zero

 A firefighting helicopter is silhouetted in front of the sun, as a wildfire burns in Mandra, Greece, July 18, 2023.

Risk of fatal heart attack may double when the air is hot and dusty

The researchers estimated that about 2.8% of heart attack deaths could be attributed to the combination of extreme temperatures and high levels of fine particulate pollution.

 Sandstorm in Eilat, June 1, 2023.

Noise pollution danger is hard to hear, this is why Israel must take action

ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS: Hashiloni is the leader of a team of activists trying to ensure that the wind turbines are not erected close to his home further south. 

 A STATION OF wind turbines in the Golan Heights.

Tar spill reported at nature reserve in Hadera

The Nature and Parks Authority stressed that tar pollution causes damage to protected natural assets, including animals and flora.

 Tar pollution at the Gedor Sea Reserve in Hadera. July 2023

Levels of microplastics in the Mediterranean a threat to wildlife

A sea of plastic, the Mediterranean is the area of the world most at risk for endangered seabirds.

 Cook's Petrel, from New Zealand, is an endangered species and is one of the seabirds most at risk from plastic exposure. During its migrations it crosses the Pacific Ocean, and its wintering areas are severely affected by the “big garbage island” of the North Pacific.

Most popular European cities exceed air pollution limits

Some of the most popular European cities have surprisingly poor air quality.

 Panoramic view of Rome with St. Peter's Basilica centering the composition. Rome, Italy

Air pollution exposure ages COVID patients 10 years - study

Reducing exposure to pollution was between 40% and 80% as effective at reducing patients’ length of hospitalization as some of the best available treatments.

A patient suffering from coronavirus disease (COVID-19) wears a full-face Easybreath snorkelling mask given by sport chain Decathlon and turned into a ventilator for coronavirus treatment

Poland has done what it can to stop fish dying in Oder river

Tonnes of dead fish were found last summer in the river that runs along part of Germany's border with Poland, prompting Warsaw to embark on a crisis response that many scientists said came too late.

 Fish feeding on a dying D. setosum urchin in the Mediterranean Sea

'License to pollute is license to kill'

Controversial Knesset bill could put public health, environment at risk.

 THE OROT Rabin Electricity power station in Hadera.