Climate Change Walkathon on December 9 in Beirut

"Climate change is real, and it is happening now. Seawater level rise is only on of the many catastrophic impacts of climate change. It is time to draw the line. Join our climate walkathon on December 9” (www.arabclimate.org)

You can also sign a petition in the website mentioned above, join their campaign and their walkathon. December 8 and 9, are international days for Climate Change awareness.

Click here to see how one of the Climate Change's effects (seawater level rising) on earth act. (p.s. you need adobe flash to view both the website and the seawater rising)

Pollution in Lebanon? Stop the hallucination!

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Yes, this is Beirut Ladies and Gentlemen!

Cleanup to Start at Old Sites in Lebanon

BYBLOS, Lebanon -- Cleanup is set to begin within days at the first of three ancient World Heritage sites damaged in the summer's Hezbollah-Israel war -- a crumbling old castle rising from the Mediterranean whose foundation stones are now coated with oil sludge.

Tens of thousands of dollars from European and other donors will go toward repairing the damage at the three sites -- first at this ancient Phoenician port city whose history stretches back 7,000 years, then to Roman ruins at Baalbek and Roman-era frescos in Tyre.

Source: LA Times

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Oil spill cleaning may take up to 1 year; Greenpeace

The massive oil spill on the Lebanese shore and sea was caused by the Israeli air-strikes on a fuel depot. Its cleaning, according to Greenpeace may take from 6 months to 1 year in case an assessment and cleanup has been done and start respectively as soon as possible.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) estimates that between 10,000 and 15,000 Tons (11,000-16,500 tons) of fuel oil leaked from an electric power plant bombed south of Beirut by Israel last month.

It polluted about 150 kilometers (93 miles) of the Lebanese coast and spread north into Syrian waters, officials said.

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The Nairobi-based UN Environmental Program (UNEP) said Israeli authorities had given it safety assurances for aerial UN surveillance missions flights on the Lebanese coast that would soon be getting underway in a bid to prevent the spill from causing further damage.

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