Thumbs up Bikfaya Biclean helps one municipality take the lead by example
Words Bassam Alkantar
The Lebanese government has said that it will temporarily reopen a landfill and build three new landfills to ease an eight-month rubbish...
Making water more transparent: Better governance is the way forward to safeguard resources
Bassam Alkantar
According to a newly published report titled The Way Forward to Safeguard Water in Lebanon: National Water Integrity Risk Assessment, “Lebanon’s water resources are under stress from a growing population, rapid urbanisation, economic growth, mismanagement...
That Sinking Feeling
Lebanon’s beaches are contaminated at dangerous levels in many public areas and resorts in the country, according to testing conducted by National Centre for...
The only way is out
Words Bassam Alkantar
Seven months ago, the authorities shut the main landfill site (Naameh) for garbage from the capital, without providing an alternative. Since then, rubbish...
We’ll always have Paris Hope hinges on watershed agreement
Words Bassam Alkantar
In December 2015, an agreement on climate change was reached in Paris, thanks to the skillfulness of French diplomacy. The Climate Agreement...
It’s Getting Hot in Here So let’s talk about sex
Words Bassam Alkantar
Climate-warming temperatures might be expected to affect the sex ratio of species if sex determination is temperature-dependent. Several studies show that indirect...