As Lebanon turns 100, capital Beirut can face a ‘waste crisis’

The city’s waste management systems were reportedly on the verge of collapse, as one of the two plants serving the city was severely …

Beirut blast lessons: Time for India to strengthen handling of explosives, chemicals

The country imports around 300,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate every year. A small portion of this is used to make explosives for mines, while the …

Beirut explosion: The disaster was exceptional but events leading up to it were not - researchers

Hazardous material is shipped across the world’s oceans on a daily basis. It is often mishandled or illegally traded. Abandoned containers …

What is ammonium nitrate, the chemical that exploded in Beirut?

Ammonium nitrate has the chemical formula NH₄NO₃. Produced as small porous pellets, or ‘prills’, it’s one of the world&…

Trash crisis in Lebanon, protests turn violent

Protests that started over garbage dump and shortage of landfills evolved into demonstrations against the government

From Bowels of Lebanon

At boiling point

River water sharing project brings Israel and Lebanon on the brink of war

Water squabbles

Multiculturalism a vague concept for West

Jurassic age cleaners

125 million-year-old fossil suggests cockroaches ate dinosaur dung

Destruction of marine life

Environmental emergency in Lebanon after trash heaps caved in

Cleanup of oil spill begins in Lebanon

Ecological disaster looms large over Lebanon

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