Volume 15, No.146, May 2010
7 Environment needs vision before money (editorial by Najib Saab)
10 When hell opened in Iceland
18 Recycling electronic wastes: a health and environment hazard (cover story)
26 Conservation agriculture: the Lebanese experience
29 Alexandria Dialogue: scarce water, rising seas
30 Africa’s food basket covered by sand desertification in Sudan
40 Comeback of pandanus trees to Oman
42 Discover the Blue Mountains Emirates’ Wolgan Valley Resort and Spa in Australia
46 Futuristic design for Abu Dhabi’s roads
48 Impacts of desalination plants on the environment
50 Top eco-investors
55 Peruvians harvest the fog
56 Brad Pit’s floating house protected against floods
58 Sierra Leone’s diamonds and Liberia’s timber victims of conflict
70 Impact of global warming on water resources in the MENA region forum of the German-Arab Scientific Society in LAU-Byblos
Letters 8 - AFED’s school competition: water management in schools 23 - Environment in a month 12 - UNEP news 24 - New science 60 - Environment market 66 - Calendar 68
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