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Israel Leads the Battle Against Climate Crisis

February 24, 2023

Tags: Desert & Water Research, Sustainability & Climate Change

Michael Sonnenfeldt--serial entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist–-recently donated $20 million with his wife, Katja Goldman, to A4BGU to establis

Prestigious SBIFF to Screen “Who Are the Marcuses?”

January 26, 2023

Tags: Desert & Water Research

The feature film documentary “Who Are the Marcuses?” reveals the mystery behind a Long Island couple who made a $500 million gift to BGU.

Times of Israel: BGU Scientists Recycle Acidic Wastewater

September 22, 2022

Tags: Desert & Water Research, Sustainability & Climate Change

Researchers have developed a way to recycle the kind of phosphoric acid wastewater that caused massive environmental disaster in 2017 near Dead Sea.

NYTimes: Israeli Vineyards in Negev are the Future of Winemaking

September 7, 2022

Tags: Desert & Water Research, Negev Development & Community Programs, Sustainability & Climate Change

Desert winemaking ‘sounds absurd,’ but Israeli vineyards in Negev show the way to the future of viticulture in a changing climate.

Israel21C: Israel Uses Innovation to Combat Heatwaves

August 8, 2022

Tags: Desert & Water Research, Sustainability & Climate Change

BGU researchers are taking the lead through innovative solutions to help combat heatwaves and other effects of climate change.

Jerusalem Post: Greenhouse Gases Released Due to Permafrost

July 26, 2022

Tags: Natural Sciences, Sustainability & Climate Change

BGU researchers go from the Negev desert to the lakes of Alaska and discover an increase in greenhouse gas which could worsen global warming.

IJN: Climate Change Changes Grape Growing

July 25, 2022

Tags: Desert & Water Research, Sustainability & Climate Change

BGU Prof. Aaron Fait & Israeli vineyards reinvent desert viticulture, saving winemaking from Italy to California impacted by climate change.

Fish Could Feed the World. These BGU Researchers Know How

May 17, 2022

Tags: Sustainability & Climate Change

The Jerusalem Post — The world is moving away from meat. But people still need quality animal protein to stay
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A4BGU Secures Transformative $20 Million Donation

May 12, 2022

Tags: Sustainability & Climate Change

NEW YORK, May 12, 2022 – Americans for Ben-Gurion University Secures $20 Million Donation for BGU’s School of Sustainability and
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