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Polio virus found as flies and mosquitoes feast on Gaza's waste

Thousands in war-torn Gaza are at risk of contracting Polio, a highly infectious disease which can cause deformities and paralysis.

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19 July, 2024
MENA
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Gaza threatened by deadly disease as garbage fills streets

Sally Ibrahim
19 January, 2024
How Israel's blockade of Gaza caused an environmental crisis
Environment and Climate
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Israel's blockade of Gaza creates an environmental crisis

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24 October, 2023
Lebanon landfill
Society
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How Lebanon's biggest landfill is making everyone sick

Omar Hamed Beato

Omar Hamed Beato

29 September, 2023
Garbage collected by the SWIM-Initiative in Akkar, North of Lebanon. Photo: Lisa Sofian, SWIM-Initiative
Environment and Climate
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SWIM: Meet the 'trashy' local initiative cleaning up Lebanon

Lisa Sofian

Lisa Sofian

28 August, 2023
A call for Action: Revitalizing Lebanon’s Waste Management
Environment and Climate
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A call for action: Revitalising Lebanon's waste management

Mariam Younes

Mariam Younes

21 August, 2023
Air pollution
Perspectives

Israel's environmental violations feed its apartheid regime

Hala Yacoub

Hala Yacoub

13 July, 2023
A Tunisian anti-government demonstrator stands in front of a road block during a general strike on November 10, 2021, following the reopening of a rubbish dump, in the Tunisian town of Agareb in the central region of Sfax, which has seen weeks of angry demonstrations over a growing waste crisis.
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The political decay at the heart of Tunisia's waste crisis

Alessandra Bajec
13 December, 2021
A Palestinian fisherman prepares his fishnets along a beach off the Mediterranean Sea in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on September 2, 2020. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP) (Photo by SAID KHATIB/AFP via Getty Images)
Environment and Climate
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Palestinians make recycling a habit with new eco-initiatives

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Sally Ibrahim

07 December, 2021
Environment and Climate
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Tunisia’s waste crisis: Government failures risk lives

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24 November, 2021
Beirut beach cleanup AFP
Society
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Greenpeace, Mashrou' Leila team-up to detox Beirut's plastic binge

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Karim Traboulsi

06 August, 2017
trash beirut
MENA
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Lebanese Cabinet approves garbage export plan

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22 December, 2015
Alexandria garbage crisis [al-Masry al-Youm]
Narrated

Alexandrians launch popular campaign to tackle growing garbage crisis

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Nada Ramadan

16 September, 2015
Lebanon 01092015 sit-in Beirut
MENA
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Lebanon protesters storm government building, demand minister resigns

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01 September, 2015
Lebanon protests august 2015 - DONT REUSE
MENA
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Lebanese protesters give government three-day ultimatum

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30 August, 2015