Visitors to Out to Sea? The Plastic Garbage Project, an exhibition at Darb 1718 in Old Cairo, are greeted by a floor-to-ceiling heap of rubbish.
Pop star Mohamed Fouad’s Ramadan prank show "Fo2sh Bel Moaskar" (Fouad in the army camp) is no stranger to controversy. The premise of the prank has upset nationalists, but more…
Two weeks ago, a giant mountain of coal was erected in the port of Alexandria. Uncovered, and barely separated from the surrounding, densely populated residential neighborhood by a flimsy sheet…
Situated in the heart of the densely populated Mostorod district in Qalyubiya, Egypt’s largest refinery has been the source of passionate criticism since plans for its expansion were announced in…
Two companies owned by the Sawiris family agreed last week to settle alleged violations of the Clean Water Act by paying a…
Officials say there are no threats to human health from an accident on Tuesday in which a barge carrying 500 tons of phosphates…
Egyptian officials have agreed to move forward with plans to reduce pollution in Lake Manzala, part of a system of brackish lakes…
Minister of State for Environmental Affairs Laila Iskandar adamantly refused to give the green light to coal imports while speaking at a…
The Egyptian government must not allow the cement industry to use coal power, said a joint statement issued on Wednesday by five…
«Along the Rosetta branch of the Nile, Kafr al-Sheikh recently suffered a “mass fish die-off." Given the almost annual regularity of such die-offs it was surprising to see a…»
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