UAE fishermen prepared to change their tune in face of falling stocks
As witnesses to the gradual decline in marine populations, fishermen in the UAE for years thought they had nothing to do with it. The narrative, fishermen believed, was that habitat destruction as a...
Lebanese shun pricey, polluted beaches for trips abroad
Lebanese like Hamza al-Sees should have no problem finding a beach to while away the summer in a country stretching along the Mediterranean. But as private developers have gobbled up seafront land...
A heartwarming Musical Bonfire at Ramlet al-Bayda… Another way to say: Public spaces are our right!
It is really heartwarming to attend a Musical Bonfire at a place that has been planned to be privatized; Ramlet el Bayda public beach in Beirut… is such a beautiful place to be, and it is one of the...
Awareness campaign in Sidon for protection of sea turtles
The Environment Committee in the Diocese of Sidon- Lebanon for Roman Catholics in cooperation with the municipality of Sidon carried on Sunday an awareness campaign along the beaches of Sidon to...
A sea of plastic along Spain’s Mediterranean coastline
“Just like there was a Bronze Age and an Iron Age, we are now living through a Plastic Age,” says Andrés Cózar, a marine biologist and researcher at Spain’s Cádiz University. He should know....
70 whale corpses discovered in Chile
Some 70 dead whales have been found in southern Chile less than a year after more than 330 whales washed up in a remote Patagonian inlet. The animals are not of the same species discovered in last...
Spain’s top ten beaches 2016
Spain has five beaches in Europe’s top ten. This is a tour by The Local: Spain leads the way when it comes to beautiful beaches with five of the country’s beaches making the top ten in...
A cottage only accessible by sea in San Fruttuoso, Italy
Two red circles stare out at me from the gnarled black trunk of a stumpy tree. Eyes. A face. It seems to look me over critically: “Are you regretting this yet?” I’m not. Though it’s true that I’m...
