Middle East/Environment

Qat - a narcotic green leaf that dominates life in Yaman - can earn three times the revenue of any other crop

'Every year we send dates to the West Bank, this year Deir El-Balah hasn't got enough dates for Deir El-Balah'

'The climate is at the top of the State of Israel’s priorities'

Israel will promote itself as the 'Land of Alternative Milk, Alternative Honey, and Alternative Meat'

'Together, we will spur large-scale investment in new energy technologies... around the world,' says Hochstein

'Instead of paying landfill fees and polluting the soil, the waste may be recycled at a lower cost'

Babylon – an ancient Mesopotamian city on the Euphrates river once the center of a sprawling empire

'People are witnessing their fertile land and crops vanish year after year'

'We live on another planet. The state has completely forgotten us,' says a local farmer

Experts warn that nearly one third of the irrigated land in Iraq will have no water by 2050

Temperatures in the region are expected to rise up to 9 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century

Iran accuses Israel and the UAE of stealing their precipitation via cloud seeding, a rain-inducing method

Lebanese salt farmers turn to a traditional, ecologically-friendly method to save their ponds

Egyptian mango farmers introduced new ventilation techniques, greenhouses, pruning and fertilizers

Hardline Islamists captured Kabul one year ago, ending 20 years of US-led military intervention

'To see villagers rush to public fountains in the morning or to a neighbor to get water makes you want to cry'

'The fan is broken, the battery is not working, we are fanning ourselves with trays'

The deaths come a week after 22 people died in flash floods in the southern Fars province

Sandstorms in Iraq, receding farmland in Egypt, and severe drought in Afghanistan

'Any activity is prohibited for three days' on the beaches in the south of Hurghada

'Around 4,000 cases of diarrhea and vomiting have been recorded in Sulaimaniyah hospitals'

'We couldn’t come before because the sea was polluted. If we did, my children would come home with viruses'

The tanker contains four times the amount of oil spilled in 1989 Exxon disaster