Sinking Alexandria faces up to coming catastrophe
Alexandria, Egypt's fabled second city and its biggest port, is in danger of disappearing below the waves within decades.
Alexandria, Egypt's fabled second city and its biggest port, is in danger of disappearing below the waves within decades.
Environment
Nov 2, 2022
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The absence of monsoon rains at the source of the Nile was the cause of migrations and the demise of entire settlements in the late Roman province of Egypt. This demographic development has been compared with environmental ...
Archaeology
Jan 25, 2021
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More than 300 million people in low-lying river deltas, mostly in poorer nations, are exposed to flooding from tropical storms made more deadly and destructive by global warming, researchers said Tuesday.
Environment
Sep 30, 2020
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Bad weather and high seas brought scientists on Wednesday to change the first stop of a unique mission to explore the depths of the Indian Ocean, one of the planet's last great unexplored frontiers. While the initial path ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 6, 2019
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Egypt says archaeologists have uncovered ancient tombs dating back to the Second Intermediate Period, 1782-1570 B.C., in the Nile Delta.
Archaeology
Jan 23, 2019
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Treading carefully among his sprawling green plants in the Nile Delta, Egyptian farmer Fatuh Khalifa fills his arms with fluffy white cotton picked by his workers.
Environment
Oct 14, 2018
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Egypt said Sunday that archeologists have unearthed one of the oldest villages ever found in the Nile Delta, with remains dating back to before the pharaohs.
Archaeology
Sep 2, 2018
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A multi-year study of Egypt's Nile Delta places the country's major breadbasket at serious risk. The soil-rich delta evolved as the result of natural conditions involving the Nile's fresh water flow and transport of sediment ...
Environment
Mar 13, 2017
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"For a thousand years," Abdullah Sheikh's family has been working the land the same way—flooding fields in Egypt's Nile Delta and planting seeds by hand.
Environment
Apr 26, 2016
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This image from Sentinel-2A on 13 August features Cairo, in Egypt.
Earth Sciences
Nov 6, 2015
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