environment
Plans for world’s largest ocean sanctuary in Antarctic blocked
Environment
November 3, 2018
Plans for world’s largest ocean sanctuary in Antarctic blocked
A plan to create the world’s largest marine sanctuary in Antarctic waters was shot down when a key conservation…
Egyptian pollution plan signals the last straw cloud
Environment
October 31, 2018
Egyptian pollution plan signals the last straw cloud
An Egyptian government program to pay traders to buy rice straw from farmers at the end of harvest has…
Crouching tigers, hidden cameras: Nepal counts its big cats
Environment
October 30, 2018
Crouching tigers, hidden cameras: Nepal counts its big cats
Chayan Kumar Chaudhary flicked through photographs captured on a hidden camera in the jungle, hoping his favorite big cat…
Nature pushed to the brink by ‘runaway consumption’
Environment
October 30, 2018
Nature pushed to the brink by ‘runaway consumption’
Unbridled consumption has decimated global wildlife, triggered a mass extinction and exhausted Earth’s capacity to accommodate humanity’s expanding appetites,…
EU air quality slowly improving but still deadly: report
Environment
October 29, 2018
EU air quality slowly improving but still deadly: report
Air pollution is slowly easing in EU countries but still causes nearly half a million early deaths each year,…
Electric vehicles to work first in Egypt’s new capital: Minister
Environment
October 25, 2018
Electric vehicles to work first in Egypt’s new capital: Minister
Egypt’s Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad has announced that the New Administrative Capital would be the first city in Egypt to…
Melting glacier in China draws tourists, climate worries
Environment
October 21, 2018
Melting glacier in China draws tourists, climate worries
The loud crack rang out from the fog above the Baishui No. 1 Glacier as a stone shard careened…
Environment Ministry to launch air pollution monitoring station in Kafr al-Sheikh
Environment
October 11, 2018
Environment Ministry to launch air pollution monitoring station in Kafr al-Sheikh
The Ministry of Environment and Cairo University revealed on Tuesday that they are cooperating to launch an instantaneous observatory station…
UN report spotlights government inaction on climate
Environment
October 1, 2018
UN report spotlights government inaction on climate
Diplomats gathering in South Korea Monday will find themselves in the awkward position of vetting and validating a major…
Climate change is a matter of survival…join us in taking action
Opinion
September 25, 2018
Climate change is a matter of survival…join us in taking action
Comparing my window view of Cairo over twenty years ago with today, I can see that its weather has…