Harsh Beirut has been closed for months now ever since its pine trees came under renewed threat from invasive sects. While pine trees in Lebanon's mountainous regions were also affected, "the big losses were registered in Harsh Beirut because the trees are young", as reported by Nabil Nemer, head of the Agricultural Engineering department at USEK. Nadine from Newsroomnomad wrote a lengthy post on the disease that's been hitting our pine trees by "drooping the…

Every year, people look forward to Jounieh's spectacular fireworks and this year was no different, except that they were organized by the Jounieh Summer Festival, not the Jounieh International Festival. I personally enjoyed the fireworks most the first time but then it became repetitive and it's quite ironic to find people criticizing the fireworks this year because of politics. Last year and this year's fireworks were both organized at a horrible time and they were…