Rana El-Hage

Head of NNA English News Desk ~ English Language Instructor at AUST Rana El-Hage is a news editor/writer/ translator (English and Arabic) and English Language instructor, with extensive experience in developing news stories covering politics, economy, environment, tourism, education, and other miscellaneous topics.

Lebanon celebrates “National Protected Reserves Day” amid stifling crises

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For the second year in a row, Lebanon celebrates the “National Protected Reserves Day” amid stifling health, economic, financial, and living crises that prevent people from enjoying this distinctive environmental day, which highlights the importance of the country’s national wealth and the pressing need to protect its reserves and natural resources. Lebanon annually celebrates this …

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Lebanon steps up efforts to clean tar contaminated beaches in southern city of Tyre

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Over the weekend, the Union of Tyre Municipalities, the National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS), in cooperation with volunteers, environmental and scout associations, the Civil Defense, and UNIFIL, launched a campaign to clean-up Tyre Coast Nature Reserve from balls of sticky gobs and blobs of tar, which showed up last week on South Lebanon’s beaches …

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A man walks along a beach in the aftermath of an oil spill that drenched much of the Mediterranean shoreline in Tyre nature reserve, Lebanon February 22, 2021. (Photo by Reuters)

Greenpeace MENA urges Lebanon’s Ministry of Environment to take swift measures to mitigate damage of Mediterranean oil spill

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Greenpeace Middle East and North Africa program manager in Beirut, Julien Jreissati, on Monday stepped up calls on Lebanon’s Ministry of Environment to take swift measures to assess the magnitude of the risk that the Mediterranean oil spill might have on Lebanon, especially after reaching the country’s southern coast.   Jreissati suggested setting up an urgent …

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