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Lynn Sheikh Moussa

Volunteers lead Lebanon’s beach clean-up after devastating oil spill

Volunteers cleaned up parts of Lebanon's southern coast after an offshore oil spill that could endanger the country's marine life.
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Karem Monzer

Green sanctuary: GROBeirut creates public garden in the heart of the city

Beirut is notorious for having both little-to-no green spaces and a distressing trash crisis. GROBeirut is changing that.
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Laudy Issa

RAMCO will stop collecting trash in Beirut, Metn, and Keserwan

RAMCO is asking the Lebanese government to deliver its dues to the waste management company in dollars, as per their contract, so that it can pay off its bank debts and operational costs.
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Karem Monzer

Bisri Dam: Dirty politics, environmental mess, and cheaper alternatives

At midnight, the World Bank’s September 4 deadline for the Lebanese government to meet “the tasks that are preconditions to...
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Visual showing some of the repurcussions of the Bisri Dam project. (Photo: Environmental Justice Atlas)
Lynn Sheikh Moussa

Bisri Dam project to resume, says cabinet during lockdown

Activists say the Bisri Dam will lead to an "environmental genocide" and fear further mismanagement of Lebanon's water resources.
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Beirut Today

Beirut Talks: Environmental and Waste Management with Ziad Abi Chaker

In another episode of Beirut Talks, activist and environmental engineer Ziad Abi Chaker discusses the pressing environmental issues that will “stop being important once we stop needing to breathe” and highlights how using sustainable solutions under a green economy can help Lebanon navigate some of the repercussions of the ongoing...
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Syrian refugee children chant slogans behind a fence at a refugee camp in Turkey. (Lefteris Pitarakis / AP / The Telegraph)
Laudy Issa

100 years of refugees, war, and a looming climate change displacement crisis

While the history of refugees in the MENA is one of war and conflicts, the future of displacement is rooted in climate change.
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Bisri Dam Article - Timour Azhari
Timour Azhari

German MPs ask government to reject Bisri Dam project

The MPs said the project was an example of the “failed policy” that Lebanese citizens have taken to the streets to oppose.
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Fires in the Chouf area (Albawaba)
Laudy Issa

Fires spread across Lebanon, local firefighting planes need $450,000 maintenance

More than 104 fires have spread across Lebanon since early Monday morning, according to the Director-General of Civil Defense, Raymond Khattar. The first fire started in Chouf’s Meshref area, quickly worsening with the ongoing heatwave, winds at a speed of 50 kilometers, and the lack of right resources to stop...
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Garbage crisis: Around 85 percent of Lebanon's waste goes to open dumps or landfills, even though 88 to 90 percent of it can be composted or recycled. (Infographic by Christina Atik)
Laudy Issa

Lebanese Politicians Will Never Agree On A Sustainable Solution To The Garbage Crisis

Harsh criticism or reality?
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Protesting the Bisri Dam (ejatlas.org)
Hadi Afif

The Bisri Dam Project in Lebanon is a “Ticking Atomic Bomb”

Despite the benefits that the CDR is promising from the Bisri Dam project, environmental activists are not convinced and for good reason.
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Map showing pollution levels on the Lebanese coastline
Laudy Issa

Where is it safe to swim in Lebanon?

Breaking down which beaches to go to and to avoid this summer in Lebanon, according to new research from the National Center for Marine Sciences.
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