Volume 13, No.127, October 2008
5 Indexes haunt Arab environment editorial by Najib Saab
14 Sustainability in the Arab World (cover story)
26 Largest crater shape in the Great Sahara
28 Air pollution in urban Syria
32 Saudi projects to reuse treated wastewater
34 Lebanon drops in EPI 2008
40 Mangroves of Abou Minkar biodiversity on an Egyptian island in the Red Sea
44 Animal Olympics amazing athletes of the wild
50 Geothermal energy in the Pacific ring of fire Indonesia and Philippines tap volcano power
52 Netherlands boosts security against rising seas
58 Big-bang recreated operating CERN's large hadron collider
68 Queen Elizabeth invests in wind energy
Letters 6 Environment in a month 8 UNEP news 24 New science 56 Green library 64 Calendar 66
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