Environment News & Climate Coverage

Reporting on Lebanon’s climate crisis, waste management failures, pollution, biodiversity loss, and environmental governance. This category includes investigations, explainers, and on-the-ground stories about climate resilience, local environmental challenges, and community responses.

Nina Bazin

Stork migration: A dangerous journey above Lebanon

We went to watch storks with the Animal Encounter, visit injured ones, and talk about hunting.

Image showing the Beirut Farms container in an empty parking lot in Furn El Chebbak

Tamara Saade

New vertical farm in Beirut may be the “future of nutrition”

Introducing Beirut Farm, a new vertical and hydroponic farm growing greens inside a container in Furn El Chebbak.

An aerial shot and 3D render of lines of solar panels

Karem Monzer

Follow the sun: Breaking down Lebanon’s solar revolution

People in Lebanon are shifting to solar power, seeking independence from an unreliable governmental electricity grid.

Karem Monzer

Inside Lebanon’s solar revolution

Without state-provided electricity and fuel to run private generators, people in Lebanon are looking for alternative sources of power.

Still from Don't Look Up where Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, and Timothée Chalamet are walking in a dishevelled supermarket.

Cendrella Azar

Don’t Look Up screams into the void

A few weeks have passed since its premiere, but Adam McKay's Don't Look Up is already one of the most divisive films out there.

Lynn Sheikh Moussa

15-year-old dies as wildfires overtake Qobayat

The wildfire raged in a forested area in the mountainous region of Qobayat, reaching just outside residential homes and endangering many.

Nina Bazin

Tyre makes a case for proactivity after major oil spill

Lynn Sheikh Moussa

Pushing for sustainable energy can save Lebanon’s electricity sector

Despite its abundance of water, wind, and sun, renewable sources of energy remain an untapped potential in Lebanon

Laudy Issa

Introducing Animal Encounter, the center conserving and rehabilitating Lebanese wildlife

Since 1993, Animal Encounter has focused on rescuing and rehabilitating Lebanese wildlife –and countering the public's negative stereotypes.

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.

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.

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.