STOCKHOLM — Activists from Nepal, Nigeria, Brazil and Israel were named the winners Thursday of this year’s Right Livelihood Award, also known as the “alternative Nobel,” for work that includes fighting to save the Amazon rain forest and bringing health care to Palestinians cut off from services.

MAKHTESH RAMON, Israel — I was enjoying a serene moment of yoga in the desert, my dusty hiking boots resting nearby, when a squadron of fighter jets roared overhead and reminded me — eight days after I last saw civilization — that I was still in Israel.

Environmentalists warn Jordan River drying up, filled with sewage

Electric eco-cars have not yet won the race; hydrogen-powered engines may make a comeback

BERLIN — Hydrogen, one of Earth’s most abundant elements, once was seen as green energy’s answer to the petroleum-driven car: easy to produce, available everywhere and nonpolluting when burned.

Thousands of devout Jews enter Palestinian village in nighttime pilgrimage to disputed tombs

Discovery of ancient bones forces Israeli hospital to relocate emergency room

Editorial Roundup: Excerpts From Recent Editorials in Newspapers in the US and Abroad

Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama

Israel hopes to stop brain drain, lure scientists home with academic, financial initiative

Israel approves plan to stop brain drain

JERUSALEM — Israel’s government has approved a plan to lure the country’s top scientific minds back home after years of brain drain.

Prospect emerges of nuclear-powered Middle East as Israel and Syria seek atomic energy

Israel, Syria pursue nuclear-powered Mideast

Rivals Israel, Syria want to develop civilian nuclear energy, raising prospect of inspections

Israel, Syria announce nuclear energy ambitions

Minister: Israel wants to build nuclear plants to secure energy supplies, fight global warming

Israel wants to build nuclear power plants

Manuscript of Albert Einstein’s famous relativity theory displayed in entirety for first time

Einstein’s relativity manuscript goes on display

Manuscript of Albert Einstein’s most famous theory goes on display in Israel for first time

Einstein first complete manuscript goes on display

Weekly Jerusalem protest becomes rallying cry for shrunken, isolated Israeli left

Isolated and battered, Israeli doves hold protest

Palestinians: Israel rerouting barrier by West Bank village, 2 1/2 years after court order

Israel rerouting barrier near West Bank village

7 American, European scientists win Israel’s prestigious 2010 Wolf Prize

7 US, European scientists win Israel’s Wolf Prize

Bomb kills Iranian nuclear physicist who backed opposition leader Mousavi in presidential run

Bomb kills Iran nuclear physicist tied to Mousavi

Archaeologists find prehistoric building in modern Israeli city of Tel Aviv

Prehistoric building found in modern Israeli city

Just in Time for Christmas: First Jesus-era house discovered in Nazareth

First Jesus-era house discovered in Nazareth

First dwelling from Jesus’ time found in Nazareth

First house from Jesus’ time found in Nazareth

Israeli archaeologists say they found first dwelling in Nazareth from Jesus’ time

Israel: First Jesus-era house found in Nazareth

Behind peace deadlock, Palestinians feel squeezed in by settlement growth

Palestinian village caught amid Israel settlements

Rights activists from Brazil, Nepal, Nigeria and Israel share 2010 ‘Alternative Nobel’

Israeli archaeologists say ancient shards of flint might be world’s oldest disposable cutlery

Israeli mathematician awarded prestigious Fields Medal with 3 others in India ceremony

Israel and environmentalists spar over the safety of baptism in the Jordan River

American, Israeli biochemists win Spanish Asturias prize for their work on pain

Israeli newspaper says construction of Jerusalem museum damages skeletons from Muslim cemetery

Israel dedicates huge sea-water purification plant to counter chronic fresh water shortage

Israeli government follows Jesus, tells Sea of Galilee fishermen to ‘cast aside their nets’

Hiking the Israel National Trail, 620 miles from the Red Sea to Lebanon border