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Friday Photo: Clean-up in Lebanon

MARWAN NAAMANI/AFP/Getty Images Lebanese volunteers clean a beach in Beirut this week. Almost three months after the war with Israel, the Lebanese coast is still contaminated by a massive oil slick. More than 10,000 tons of fuel spilled into the Mediterranean when a power station was hit by Israeli airstrikes, fouling three quarters of Lebanon’s ...

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Lebanese volunteers clean a beach in Beirut this week. Almost three months after the war with Israel, the Lebanese coast is still contaminated by a massive oil slick. More than 10,000 tons of fuel spilled into the Mediterranean when a power station was hit by Israeli airstrikes, fouling three quarters of Lebanon’s 120-mile coast.

Carolyn O'Hara is a senior editor at Foreign Policy.
Tags: Environment, Lebanon, Media, Middle East and North Africa

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