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Volume 15, No.146, May 2010
CONTENTS

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Environment needs vision before money (editorial by Najib Saab)

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When hell opened in Iceland
18 Recycling electronic wastes: a health and environment hazard (cover story)

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Conservation agriculture: the Lebanese experience

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Alexandria Dialogue: scarce water, rising seas

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Africa’s food basket covered by sand desertification in Sudan
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Comeback of pandanus trees to Oman
42
Discover the Blue Mountains Emirates’ Wolgan Valley Resort and Spa in Australia
46 Futuristic design for Abu Dhabi’s roads
48 Impacts of desalination plants on the environment
50 Top eco-investors

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Peruvians harvest the fog
Brad Pit’s floating house protected against floods
Sierra Leone’s diamonds and Liberia’s timber victims of conflict
Impact of global warming on water resources in the MENA region forum of the German-Arab Scientific Society in LAU-Byblos


Letters 8 - AFED’s school competition: water management in schools 23 - Environment in a month 12 - UNEP news 24 - New science 60 - Environment market 66 - Calendar 68