Time for an Alternative

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Lebanon’s electricity woes are a part of daily life. The constant shift from government-provided power to diesel generators is the norm. And while residents...

SYMBOLIC GREEN GESTURES

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Nature’s gifts cannot be valued in monetary terms. Like clean air, they are often taken for granted, at least until they become scarce.  This...

The man with a (sustainable) plan

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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...

See them before they disappear

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Words John Gray Shishmaref, a remote Inupiate Eskimo village with a population of 650 people, has been identified as one of Alaska’s most eroded communities. ...

Charles Darwin

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Charles Darwin, who in his later years became increasingly passionate about plants; and his son Francis thought of the plant as a kind of...

It’s Getting Hot in Here So let’s talk about sex

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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...