On Friday, June 4, 2010 at 10pm, the BIEL in Beirut has closed its doors after three days during which was held the Construction Fair 15th edition "Project Lebanon 2010". On the program: construction and environment protection. Read more

May 22nd is International Biodiversity Day. This is an opportunity to take a closer look at Lebanon’s vegetable biodiversity, extremely rich, according to many specialists, that it could be of significant interest to the pharmaceutical industry. Focus on a fragile and neglected richness threatened with destruction. Read more

In Copenhagen right now, world leaders are supposed to be saving the planet. Along the way they have to overcome diplomatic obstacles, political potholes and economic roadblocks. Mission impossible you say? We don’t care anymore. Well… we do care but we have our own strategy. While we let them do their thing in Denmark, we’re taking control at home. In one way or another, each of us is responsible for what’s happening to... Read more

Tara Oceans is a three year scientific expedition to understand how marine ecosystems work and how they will be affected by climate change. This study concerns all parts of the world but will not include Lebanon because the team was denied permission to take samples from territorial waters. Read more

Over-fishing, pollution and dynamite fishing have devastated the Lebanese coast. As many fish species are facing extinction, Lebanese fishermen, once prosperous are now having more and more difficulty to make a living. Read more

The Lebanese cedar is now considered to be a threatened specie; that’s one of the many manifestations of climatic change in what remains (but for how long?) the land of the Cedars. Read more

Lebanese are lobbying for a majestic cave complex to be named one of the new Seven Wonders of the World in an online competition that has drawn natural attractions from across the globe. Read more

Lebanon, one of the world's key migratory bird corridors, has turned into a death trap for the avian population due to illegal hunting of increasingly rare species. Environmentalists cry massacre every hunting season, which typically lasts from October to December, when poachers kill birds by the thousands in the mountains and the eastern Bekaa region despite a 1995 hunting ban. Read more

Summer is gone and fall is here with its heavy cloudbursts. As for Lebanon, it's always the same story. Once it rains, roads are streamed with water. But unfortunately, there are few means implemented to save rainwater, especially when experts say that about 50% are wasted thereby. Read more

Two years after the worst oil spill in the east Mediterranean left thousands of tonnes of crude over three-quarters of Lebanon's coast, the beaches are almost all clean but the troubles continue. Read more