Our beautiful dunes located about 50 kilometers north from Eilat, and one of them called “Samar sand dunes”.

Samar Sands Dunes are low hills of golden sand, just like in most of the deserts. In 1994 the Samar Sands have covered 7 square kilometers. But after agricultural development decided to reduce most of the sands, it now covers only 2.3 square kilometers.

The Samar Sands is the last dunes that left in the Arava area. Many contractors and companies are mining these dunes for cement to build houses.

This act causes industrial pollution because of all the devices they used for manning the Samar dunes.

These dunes are important for the agriculturists because of the soft sand a lot of agriculturists are making their live from it.

So, what do people do to prevent them from extinct and try to change this situation?

A lot of people from Samar kibbutz are protesting and trying to avoid the contractors to keep doing their actions.

In addition, they try to raise awareness by publishing their protests on the web.

Some agriculturists are trying to offer some solutions. For example, persuade the companies to use other ways to make cement, like mining rocks in Timnaa or using other places like Rotem plain.

Some people even do a lot of information conferences to enrich other people’s knowledge about the Samar dunes and why it is important to preserve it.

The Samar Sand dunes is a very beautiful and beneficial place.

This is one of the places that we need to preserve.

SOURCES OF INFORMAITION:Wikipedia,Jerusalem Post,Man nature and law

The main sources of the waters of the Jordan are the rains and the snow that descend on the Hermon. 
the four sources of the Jordan:

Hermon river (Banias)

· Dan River

· Snir river 

· Ayun river

why is the Jordan river important?

The Jordan River is an important site for a few reasons.

Firstly, the Jordan River is an enjoyable site which you can come and enjoy its beautiful view and swim in its' water. Moreover, you can kayak on the river. 

In conclusion, the Jordan River is a beautiful attraction that could disappear if we don't try to save it.

what happened to the Jordan river?

In the past, the Jordan River was a large and beautiful river. But the Jordan River over the years has became polluted and water quality was very poor. In 2010, the plan to rehabilitate the river began, and later on (partially) succeeded in cleaning the river.

But in August 2018 it was forbidden to enter a number of streams in the Golan Heights, including the Jordan River, due to the presence of pollution in their water, which causes the eruption of the Leptospirosis. (עכברת)

(Symptoms of the disease are similar to flu symptoms: fever, headache and muscle pain) 

The Arctic, according to experts, is expected to become completely ice-free during the summer season by 2030 -according to its current melting rate and the temperatures measured in recent years.

The ice-free pole in the summer has serious consequences, less ice means less energy being returned from the huge white surfaces and therefore the global warming of the earth. 

How can we save the North Pole?

You can sign The Greenpeace organization petition to save the North Pole, to show that our shared vision of a green and healthy Earth, a land of peace, depends on the protection of all of us on the North Pole. You can also join a demonstration against the companies or countries that support the oil drilling. Those are only a few examples for what we can do to save the North Pole. There are a lot of ways to save the North Pole. Together, we have stronger power than any army of a state and any corporate budget. Our shared concern for our Earth rise above all the boundaries that separate us and turns us into the strongest force that exists today. so if we all unite we can save the North Pole.

Unfortunately, illegal fishing, non-native species and the demands of more than 160,000 tourists each year threaten this irreplaceable ecosystem and the people who depend on it for their food and livelihood.
 Furthermore, increased generation of waste creates pollution that threatens the Galápagos. An unknown number of animals are killed every year when they become entangled in pieces of string or plastic bags, or consume floating trash.

In conclusion, the Galápagos are an extraordinary, invaluable and due to our actions- dying ecosystem. It's our responsibility to stop illegal fishing, reduce pollution and ensure that the tourism in the Galápagos isn't harmful, or we'll lose one of the most beautiful places on Earth, forever.

   

 

 

We would like to describe a very serious environmental problem: Deforestation.

Deforestation refers to the cutting, clearing, and removal of rainforests. 

The Amazon rainforest covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This place is over 7,000,000 square kilometers and includes countries as: Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.  

Most of the rainforests are in Brazil. The Amazon represents over half of the planet's remaining rainforests, with about 390 billion trees. 

 

In the last several decades there is a phenomenon of deforestation of the Amazon rainforests because people need more and more places to live and trees to build houses.

Unfortunately, deforestation is a very serious environmental problem that endangers people all over the world.

 

First of all, deforestation endangers the different species of plants and animals that live in the forest. Millions of animals and plants will disappear because of the cutting of the trees.

 

Secondly, over a quarter of the medicines we are using today origin in the plants that grow in the Amazon. As a result of the deforestation, it would be impossible to extract the medicine from the extinct plants. Without this vital medicine, a lot of diseases could not be cured anymore, as medicine against malaria and HIV for example, and a lot of sick people will die.

 

In addition, most of our foods come out of the Amazon, such as: bananas, pineapples, nuts, coffee beans and many more. If deforestation continues,then we could be in a danger of cutting off a significant percentage of our food supply.

 

Finally, deforestation influences the amount of oxygen on Earth and endangers all the living species in the world including people.

 

To sum up, it is very important to save the rainforest because it has a huge impact on local economies and on the whole world. 

 

 

Bibliography:

1.  https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/7-reasons-to-save-the-rainforest/

2.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_rainforest

The president of the organization that fights against the killing says that only with struggle in the field they could stop the old haunting whales tradition. 
The organization don't know how long they will stay in the Peru Islands area, but they will do what they can to distance the schools of whales from the fishermen with a special under water acoustic equipment that will be installed soon. They claim that the police raided on the organization boat and since then they can't approach to the island. 
We found the site important because animal abuse is a horrible thing and we support the fight against the murder and we need to raise awareness about the whale killing.
To sum up, the whales are very important and we need to save them.

 🌎help us save the world!!🌎

The residents of Gaza are flying kites with flammable materials towards the city's and the fields in the south and by that they are making terrible fires that are destroying the south. 

The black south started because a group from the army went into Gaza in order to get intelligence information they were caught and one solider got killed.  

We were using Ynet on our article and we think that it's a great site because the site let people that aren't in the war often black south are to feel identification about the situation, it also gives the black south people the feeling that all of the people from Israel are with them and they are supporting them. 

The conclusion of what happening is that the residents of Gaza are flying kites and the situation is very gentle it’s changing all the time it’s extremely dangerous and we all very concerned as a matter of fact the teenagers organized a day that everyone would come to school with black shirts because it’s very important to us that the south will be preserved. The army is on high alert and they attacked on Sunday at least four huliot launchers of kites. 

We hope you enjoyed our article thank you very much!!!
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The Dead Sea is going through rapid destruction, most of the beaches are already closed for bathing, the water levels are continuing to fall, entire areas are closed due to sinkholes. All these endanger the surrounding communities, the local infrastructure and the tourism.

 what's The Causes:
Negligent policy that solves one problem but creates another: closing the Degania Dam to save the Sea of Galilee stalled the flow of water to the Dead Sea. Today only a fraction of the water that used to flow in the past arrives at the Dead Sea
The mining process of drying the water for salt is drying out the northern lake, exposing the area to flooding and the hotels to collapse.
Drought is one of the most devastating consequences of Climate Change. It reduces the flow of new waters into the sea.

The solution:

The Dead Sea is in bad shape but there is still a chance to change this! We have solutions – we demand that the local governments take responsibility and rehabilitate the natural resource of the region:
Invest resources in rehabilitation.
Reduce industrial use of the sea.
Renew a controlled flow of new waters into the sea

In the 1960s and 1970s people became worried about the condition of the river and began to find ways to clean up the river.   The Israel Water Authority created plans to clean up the river and today things continue to improve.   The Mekorot Water Company is building water purification plants which will allow the water to be used for agricultural irrigation in the Ramat Hasharon area and even to water the grass in the Ganei Yehoshua park.     

Information source: Haaretz, Wikipedia.

How can we preserve the river?

*we need to save the river-if we go to trips,so we throw the food to the garbage.

*Adopt a river-if we have a river near our house,we can “adopt” it with our class or with the school.

*Advertise in the newspaper.

*To make a river tour and explain about it.

To sum up, the Yarkon is important and if we save it,it will be good and beautiful.

How can we preserve the river?

*we need to save the river-if we go to trips,so we throw the food to the garbage.

*Adopt a river-if we have a river near our house,we can “adopt” it with our class or with the school.

*Advertise in the newspaper.

*To make a river tour and explain about it.

To sum up, the Yarkon is important and if we save it,it will be good and beautiful.

Sources of information: Wikipedia and Ynet

Carmel was always considered a place of beauty. The whole area is green, the views are lovely and the animals are wonderful. 

Many people travel in the Carmel, mainly on vacations and holidays. Carmel is an important tourist attraction in the country. 

The Carmel is located in the north of Israel. 

All those make the Carmel a special place. 

The Carmel has trees with mild ignition properties, Causing many fires over the years. 

The largest fire in the history of the State of Israel took place in the Carmel on 2-6.12.2010. 

As a result of the fire, 44 people killed , 17,000 people were evacuated from their homes, huge areas were destroyed (25,000 dunams), and about 5 million trees Burned . close to 20 countries from all over the world helped Israel fight the fire. 

Immediately after the fire many authorities and organizations began to rehabilitate the Carmel, for example: In the first days after the fire, the animals were returned to Carmel. In 2017 the rehabilitate was completed. 

The country still trying to improve Carmel and bring it back to what it used to be and raise awareness of what happened in the Carmel.
 
To sum up we think that people should be more careful about the Carmel so it return to be what it was.

Go and plant for a better future for Carmel!

The results of this pollution are rates of hospitalization, sickness and mortality at levels higher than those of the national average in diseases such as heart disease, hypertension, stroke and cancer. Haifa and its vicinities have a morbidity rate percent higher than the national average of cancer. Other results are respiratory diseases such as asthma, which is more common among children in Haifa Bay than in the rest of the country.

What can be done to reduce pollution from factories is to remove the risk factors from populated areas. One of the plans in advanced planning is the removal of a 12,000-ton ammonium storage tank from the Haifa Bay and the establishment of an ammonia production plant in southern Israel. The goal is to reduce the risks to the population from hazardous events.

We hope that the hazardous pollution will be taking care of by the right people in the next years and we want to raise our children in a cleaner environment. 

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Bibliography: Wikipedia, Israel Environment Bulletin.

Pollution in this region has been extremely high in recent years. The United Nations Environment Programme has estimated that 650,000,000 tone of sewage, 129,000 tons of mineral oil, 60,000 tons of mercury, 3,800 tons of lead and 36,000 tons of phosphates are dumped into the Mediterranean each year. The Barcelona Convention aims to reduce pollution in the Mediterranean Sea and protect and improve the marine environment in the area, thereby contributing to its sustainable development. Many marine species have been almost wiped out because of the sea's pollution. One of them is the Mediterranean monk seal which is considered to be among the world's most endangered marine mammals

 

The Mediterranean is also plagued by marine debris. A 1994 study of the seabed using trawl nets around the coasts of Spain, France and Italy reported a particularly high mean concentration of debris; an average of 1,935 items per km2. Plastic debris accounted for 76%, of which 94% was plastic bags                                                                                            Countries located on the shores of the Mediterranean France Spain Italy Malta Monaco Montenegro Croatia Bosnia and Herzegovina Slovenia AB.

 The average depth of approximately is 1500 meters below sea level.

Sources of information:
just for fun
britannica.com
wikipedia

Global warming is the result of artificial greenhouse gas emission.
Global warming is a long-term rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system, an aspect of climate change shown by temperature measurements and by multiple effects of the warming.[2][3] The term commonly refers to the mainly human-caused observed warming since pre-industrial times and its projected continuation,[4] though there were also much earlier periods of global warming.[5] In the modern context the terms are commonly used interchangeably,[6] but global warming more specifically relates to worldwide surface temperature increases; while climate change is any regional or global statistically identifiable persistent change in the state of climate which lasts for decades or longer, including warming or cooling.[7][8] Many of the observed warming changes since the 1950s are unprecedented in the instrumental temperature record, and in historical and paleoclimate proxy records of climate change over thousands to millions of years.[2]

The Dead Sea, one of the most popular tourist destinations, is best known for its special qualities. At a matter of fact, many people from all over the world to a vacation at the Dead Sea, passing their time between the Dead Sea Spa and visiting the unique hiking trails and attractions in the area.  

The Dead Sea is going through rapid destruction. Most of the beaches are already closed for bathing, the water levels are continuing to fall,and entire areas are closed due to sinkholes. All these endanger the surrounding communities, the local infrastructure and the tourism.

One of the causes is a negligent policy that solves one problem but creates another: closing the Degania Dam to save the Sea of Galilee,which stalled the flow of water to the Dead Sea. Today only a fraction of the water that used to flow in the past arrives at the Dead Sea.

In addition, drought is one of the most devastating consequences of Climate Change. It reduces the flow of new waters into the sea.

The Dead Sea is in bad shape but there is still a chance to change this! We have solutions – we demand that the local governments take responsibility and rehabilitate the natural resource of the region:

Invest resources in rehabilitation. ●

Reduce industrial use of the sea.  ●

●Renew a controlled flow of new waters into the sea.

To sum up, the Dead Sea is one of the most important and beautiful places in the world, and we have to take action before it will be too late. 

Information Sources : BBC, GREEN COURSE,NUAE .

Presenters : Tamar, Noa and Avigail.

Disposable dishes are tools that are used once for a specific purpose for which they are intended and after use are thrown away. 

Disposable dishes are made of plastic, a substance that pollutes the land, the air and landscape. This material is eaten by the animals and causes them to be wounded and infected. In addition, the poisonous material in plastic sometimes enter our drinking, poisoning the land and causing health problems. 

Items made of plastic are usually designed for short-term use, so they quickly find their way to the trash and accumulate more and more. Unfortunately, plastic takes centuries to fade, so plastic is probably one of the only souvenirs that will remain on Earth in thousands of years. 

The forecasts for the future are not optimistic. According to a recent study published in 30 years, we will produce four times as much plastic as we do today. In addition, the study indicates that 90 percent of the garbage in the sea is plastic. 

There are two main solutions to the problem of using disposable dishes: 

The first solutions is the use of tools made from non-plastic material. 

The second solutions is to recycle the use of the disposable dishes  

These solutions can be done by any of us. This requires public awareness. However, this awareness is not high today, and as a result, most of the plastic tools eventually find their way into the garbage.

presenter:
lea shalev
noga ben arush
 zohar perets
shoham dolev
    

The Dead Sea is a salt lake between Israel and Jordan, considered the lowest place in the entire world. It is 306 meters deep, 50 kilometers long and 15 kilometers wide at its widest point.  It is one of the world's first health resorts. The water contains 30 essential minerals, and the air has a high assemblage of oxygen, which helps to cure diseases such as asthma and arthritis.

Unfortunately, the water level is dropping about 1 meter and more every year.

Since the beginning of the measurements until 1997, The dead sea has lost almost 21 meters height, and about 400 skm from its area.

There are some reasons for it's drying up, but the main cause is that the factories around dry up the dead sea as a routine, in order to use it's resources.

What can we do to prevent irreparable damage or destruction and save the dead sea? 

The most practical way is to stream new water to the dead sea. Although this process reduces the salinity of the water, it is better than losing the dead sea.  

So to sum up, the dead sea is one of the wonders of the world, and have no substitute, and if it will be gone- we wouldn't have it's great profits, so together, we won't let the Dead Sea disappear. Let's save the dead sea!