Plants I.Q.
Words Alia Fawaz
Plants dominate every terrestrial environment, composing ninety-nine per cent of the biomass on earth. By comparison, humans and all the other animals...
The Great Green Wall of China
Words Alia Fawaz
The Great Green Wall (also known as the Three North Shelterbelt project) is by far the world’s largest tree-planting project.
To date 66 billion trees...
Wishing upon a star … The search for fusion energy heats up
Words Alia Fawaz
Meeting the world's energy demands is one of the major challenges of our time. Our overdependence on fossil fuels to meet our...
Thank you, Governor Riad Salame Lebanon’s first green bus is a gift to the...
Words Sawsan Bou Fakhreddine
How to handle its trash is one of Lebanon’s most pressing problems. In the summer of 2015 it reached a tipping...
THE SOURCE OF THE TROUBLE
Words Nour Masri *
Threats
The Qaraoun Catchment feeds Lebanon’s big- gest and longest river, the Litani. This catchment is a critical source of water for...
The man with a (sustainable) plan
words Jody Jaffe
Illustration Riad Hanna-el-daher
Lebanon seems to be constantly teetering on the brink of collapse. The garbage crisis was resolved only...