Amid A Myriad Of Crises, Lebanon Now Confronts An Ecological Disaster On Its Shores

March 28, 2021
Marine biology student Ranim Tahhan, 21, pictured left, and another volunteer work to clean Tyre beach from the pollution caused by an oil spill in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

Some of the country's last beaches spared from development are now carpeted in globs of tar from an oil spill in the Mediterranean, damaging beaches that are nesting grounds for endangered turtles.

(Image credit: Ruth Sherlock/NPR)



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