Volume 16, No.158, May 2011
5 Environment’s share of Arab Leaders’ bestowals (editorial by Najib Saab)
16 Nuclear energy programs in Arab countries (cover story)
22 Development path: a national project shared by the people of Egypt
24 Sudan produces ethanol from sugar cane
26 Public concerns about an industrial-waste treatment center in Tunisia
28 Skhour of Rehamna: who will save this Moroccan unique forest?
30 Innovations that nourish the planet Worldwatch state of the world report 2011
42 Litani river, key to Lebanon’s future
46 Turtles in peril
50 Hamburg, the climate friendly city marathon of events in the European green capital
52 Haiti’s forests transferred to coal
54 A freshwater sea under Australia the great artesian basin
56 Soil grubs devastate Lebanese trees
58 Farming in 2020 a vision
Letters 6 -Environment in a month 10 -New science 58 - School activities 63 - Green library 64 - Environment market 66 - Calendar 68
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