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Volume 14, No.135, June 2009
CONTENTS

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Climate change: from rhetorics to actions (editorial by Najib Saab)

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We have an opportunity to stop environmental degradation ( by Mohammad Al-Bawardi)
18 Nature strikes back: Pandemics like swine flu ( cover story)

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Najib Saab to L’Officiel Hommes: Green economy is our lifeline out of the present crisis

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Climate heroes

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Emissions targets for nations
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How climate change affects GDP
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Geoengineering: extreme technologies to combat global warming
33 Denmark greens its hotels
34 Cate Blanchett a climate advocate
35 Don’t be the odd one out caricatures
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Chariaa mountain reserve in Algeria
Galapagos natural treasures endangered by climate change
School environmental festival in Beirut
A water strategy for Lebanon
Fish farming replaces poppies in Afghanistan
Poisons in beauty saloons
The enlightenment returns by Kurt Gottfried and Harold Varmus

Letters to the editor 8 - Environment in a month 12 -UNEP news 22 - New science 66 - Green cars - 70 Environment market 72 - Green library 73 - Calendar 74