Stop Playing Dirty It’s time to come clean

Words Malek Hakim Major global insurance companies are urging G20 leaders to commit to a specific timeline for rapidly phasing out fossil fuel subsidies –...

Lebanon, it’s time to heal: The push for post-war reconciliation

Words Alia Fawaz While many Lebanese still have unresolved issues from their war-torn past, they are also dealing with on-going sectarian rifts, a presidential vacuum,...

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 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...

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...

Intelligence

“Intelligence is the ability to solve problems and plants are amazingly good in solving their problems.” Stefano Mancuso