Volume 14, No.135, June 2009

 

7 Climate change: from rhetorics to actions (editorial by Najib Saab)

11 We have an opportunity to stop environmental degradation ( by Mohammad Al-Bawardi)

18 Nature strikes back: Pandemics like swine flu ( cover story)

24 Najib Saab to L’Officiel Hommes: Green economy is our lifeline out of the present crisis

28 Climate heroes

30 Emissions targets for nations

31 How climate change affects GDP

32 Geoengineering: extreme technologies to combat global warming

33 Denmark greens its hotels

34 Cate Blanchett a climate advocate

35 Don’t be the odd one out caricatures

46 Chariaa mountain reserve in Algeria

50 Galapagos natural treasures endangered by climate change

56 School environmental festival in Beirut

60 A water strategy for Lebanon

63 Fish farming replaces poppies in Afghanistan

64 Poisons in beauty saloons

76 The enlightenment returns by Kurt Gottfried and Harold Varmus

 

 

Letters to the editor 8 - Environment in a month 12 -UNEP news 22 - New science 66 - Green cars - 70 Environment market 72 - Green library 73 - Calendar 74

 

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