Climate change has struck again. This time, it's impacting forests in Argentina. New research has revealed that increases in precipitation and changes in vegetative structure in these forests have led to increased parasitism of young nesting birds by fly larvae. This is bad news for the diversity of these avian species. In temperate and tropical areas of the Americas, wild bird chicks are at the mercy of pa ...

World Water Week is hosted and organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) and takes place each year in Stockholm. The World Water Week has been the annual focal point for the globe's water issues since 1991. Every year, over 200 collaborating organizations convene events at the World Water Week. In addition, individuals from around the globe present their findings at the scientific work ...

The United Nations Office to Support the International Decade for Action "Water for Life" 2005-2015/UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication (UNW-DPAC) and the UN World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) are pleased to announce the launch of the 4th edition of the 'Water for Life' UN-Water Best Practices Award. The purpose of the Award is to promote efforts to fulfil international commitments ...

Hiam Kreidie, president of window to environment association, and recently completed the Climate Reality Leaders Corps Training program and is now a fully trained Climate Leader in Istanbul 14 and 15th of June.  Mrs. Keidie joined more than 430 participants from 75 countries around the world in receiving specialized training from former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and others on how to communicate and organi ...

As part of its summer activities, the Environmental Scout Organization in Lebanon, has organized a competition of the best kite for the scout flowers and Cubs who had the chance to realize and live a good time with their kites in the presence of their parents. The competition had a lot of success, the audience was happy and they liked the impressive activity. The workshop also included an education course a ...

UNEP recently launched the "Think.Eat.Save": campaign in support of the SAVE FOOD Initiative to reduce food loss and waste. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), every year 1.3 billion tones of food are wasted. This is equivalent to the same amount produced in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. At the same time, 1 in every 7 people in the world go to bed hungry and more than 20,000 chil ...

The Biodiversity Program (BP) at the Institute of Environment (IOE), University of Balamand (UOB) organized a workshop entitled “Research on managing in wildfire risk in Lebanon” on the 26 June 2013 at Hotel Holiday Inn, Dunes – Beirut. This workshop came within the framework of a new project entitled: “towards a better management of wild land-Urban interface in Lebanon: gaining from the US experience”: man ...

Caretaker Environment Minister Nazem Khoury announced Thursday that the Harissa Mountain area in Jounieh would be converted into a nature reserve in cooperation with the Maronite Patriarchate and the Jounieh Municipality. “The reserve will be a major resource, not just for the residents of Kesrouan, but also for all Lebanese,” he said. The decision was announced after Khoury, caretaker Information Minister ...

Less than an hour drive from chaotic Beirut a hidden ecological sanctuary offers peace of mind, body and soul. The valley that has seen men and women flee the atrocities of war from the Ottoman Empire, to the conflict of 1860, and then the massacres of 1983, has now become a haven of peace; a transitory refuge, not to hide in any more but to expand. It is in this preserved lush historical mountain of the Ch ...

Assad Adel Serhal, Director General of Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon, SPNL (BirdLife Partner in Lebanon) has more than 25 years experience in the development and management of Protected Areas in Lebanon. Under his direction SPNL has initiated eight Himas (community-based protected areas) in Lebanon, and he helped found the Hima Fund. Assad Serhal is the current chair of the BirdLife Middle ...