Students want to transform Beirut River into a shared, open space. At the heart of it all? A functional, translucent tube and a green tower.
Environment
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.
The lack of a proper waste management framework and monitoring process leaves room for the illegitimate private gain of authorities in charge of costly waste incinerator projects.
All factors considered, the film makes it clear that although incinerators may work in Denmark, this waste management strategy is practically unfeasible in Lebanon.
Beirut Today sat down with Ziad Abi Chaker on Jan. 30th to discuss his projects and was/were also invited to...
Debates on the origin of the trash have been sparked, and some officials stating that the garbage washed downstream from Nahr El Kalb, a recurring dumpsite since the outbreak of the crisis.
Human Rights Watch has released a campaign advocating for a major switch up in Lebanon’s handling of their waste. There is a great piling up and overflow of trash, and many local dumps have resorted to burning trash in order to make way for more. HRW deems this a human...
The American University of Beirut took part in the ninth annual Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) conference held in Shenzhen, China...
What are Ecosystem Services (ESS)? According to the 2000 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Report MA Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Ecosystems and Human...
On December 6, the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs hosted a talk on water scarcity and its challenges in the Middle East. Dr. Hussam Hussein, a speaker, is a post-doc research fellow at IFI, as well as a visiting fellow at the University of East Anglia...
Lebanon’s coasts have been lying under a great yellow cloud, making sure we go about our daily lives with pride...
On the 21st of October , Beirut Today interviewed the charismatic and passionate Joslin Kehdy, the founder of Recycle Lebanon,...
Smog, mass deforestation, and mountains of trash, it’s almost as if humanity is making a genuine effort to destroy the one and only planet we can survive on. Thankfully though, there are some who are taking heed and creating more sustainable communities and minimizing the harm we have been causing....