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Volume 15, No.147, June 2010
CONTENTS

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Arab water: Apocalypse now (editorial by Najib Saab)

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Ten steps to reduce your corporate carbon print
12 Biodiversity is life by Ahmed Djoghlaf, executive secretary of the convention on biological diversity

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Diverse Lebanon by Dr. Georges Tohme, president of the board of the Lebanese national council for scientific research

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What fate awaits life on earth? Global diversity outlook GDO-3, World Environment Day

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The impact of climate change on Arab biodiversity (cover story)
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Facts and figures about  biodiversity and extinction
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Is climate change responsible for mass outbreaks of forest insects in Lebanon?
36 IUCN red list of species in peril
46 Lebanon, paradise lost?
52 Best wildlife photos

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Grey water for southern Lebanese gardens
Technologies that mimic nature
Cleaning pollution hotspots: success stories Blacksmith Institute report
Timber fueled Cambodian civil war
Wind giant wind turbines provide 20% of Denmark’s electricity


Letters 8 - Environment in a month 16 - UNEP news34 - New science 64 - School activities 68 - Library 72 - Calendar 74