Source: Kataeb.org
Security & Justice
Southern Lebanon Endures Massive Damage: 40,000 Homes Leveled Across 37 Towns
Israeli forces have systematically destroyed entire neighborhoods in southern Lebanon, leveling more than 37 towns and wiping out over 40,000 residential units, according to Lebanon's National News Agency.
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Gaps in Coastal Radar Enabled Israeli Raid in Batroun, Army Commander Says
Lebanon’s army chief, General Joseph Aoun, detailed to Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati how Israeli forces likely exploited gaps in the country's coastal radar system during the recent raid carried out in Batroun. The briefing comes as Lebanese officials seek answers on how Israel’s elite Shayetet 13 unit carried out the landing undetected.
Monday, November 4, 2024
Opinion
The Emptying of Baalbek Is a Moment to Take Stock
“Large numbers of people continue to flee their homes every day, as Israel’s military operations in Lebanon have been going on unabated.” These disturbing words could be from almost any news report about Israel’s invasion of its northern neighbour over the past month. However, they can be found in a report by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre issued on July 27, 2006.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
A Future Without Hezbollah
At the end of September, when Israel’s campaign to destroy Hezbollah was reaching its height, I met one of the group’s supporters in a seaside café in western Beirut. He was a middle-aged man with a thin white beard and the spent look of someone who had not slept for days. He was an academic of sorts, not a fighter, but his ties to Hezbollah were deep and long-standing.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Sports
FC Barcelona Fears First Team Star Will Be Banned From Playing, Reports SPORT
FC Barcelona is concerned that one of its main first-team stars will be banned from playing at the turn of 2025 because of issues related to his registration and Financial Fair Play (FFP) limits according to SPORT, which cited anonymous sources.
Friday, November 1, 2024
Tottenham Forward Son Heung-min Crowned Asia’s International Player of the Year
Tottenham forward Son Heung-min was crowned as Asia’s International Player of the Year for the fourth time by the Asian Football Confederation at its annual awards ceremony Tuesday.
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Wednesday 6 March 2019 10:43:48
Report Warns Rate of Plastic Pollution Will Double by 2030
Rate of plastic pollution will double by 2030 amid a fast-growing production, a report released by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) warned.
According to the "Solving Plastic Through Accountability" report, the world has produced since 2000 as much plastic as all the preceding years combined.
"Production has grown rapidly this century as plastic is cheap, versatile and reliable. These traits support the development of disposable plastic products, and almost half of all plastic becomes waste in less than three years. Most of these throwaways are consumed in high and upper-middle income countries," WWF noted.
"This issue is only decades old yet already over 75 per cent of all plastic ever produced is waste."
The report explained that one-third of plastic waste is estimated to have entered nature as land, freshwater or marine pollution, adding that 37 per cent of plastic waste is currently managed ineffectively.
"If business continues as usual, by 2030 the plastic system is expected to double the amount plastic pollution on the planet, with oceans the most visibly affected," WWF warned.
Carbon dioxide emissions from plastic waste management could triple by 2030 as other waste treatment infrastructure remains more economically attractive than recycling.
"Unmonitored, an incineration-lead waste-to-energy approach to the plastic pollution problem risks creating other pollutant issues for nature and society beyond carbon dioxide emissions," it pointed out.
The report indicated that about 40 per cent of plastics currently consumed are single-use, such as cutlery, plates, food containers and electronics packaging.
"Single-use plastics simply have to go," said Richard Leck, WWF's Head of Oceans and Sustainable Development.
"In terms of the calls to action, absolutely the ban around single-use plastics is very important," he added.
The World Wide Fund for Nature is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961, working in the field of the wilderness preservation, and the reduction of human impact on the environment.
