56 African heritage sites threatened by extreme coastal events: Study

North Africa has the largest number of exposed sites

Solar, wind can break Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam deadlock

COP27 diary (November 9): $2 trillion needed to finance climate action in developing economies

A round-up of what went on at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit  

Land for ideology swap

Geopolitics, a mineral-rich disputed territory, Egypt-Sudan ties and the fall of Morsi

Breathing easy

Cairo embraces CNG in a big way

For the sake of caution

A decision to refuse clearance to GMOs should be based on good science and policy

A satellite data system will help detect, act on methane emissions

Methane Alert and Response System to help track major emission sources globally

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Dust off the rust

Adequate research-funding can check stem rust resurgence

COP27: African countries launch ‘game-changing’ carbon credits initiative

Target to provide 300 million carbon credits every year by 2030

COP27 diary (November 15): Political support to loss and damage facility critical, says Pakistan

A round-up of what went on at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit

Victory against all odds

COP27 diary (November 17): Details on loss and damage facility, phasing out coal missing from ‘Cover Decision’ draft

A round-up of what went on at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit  

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COP27 diary (November 16): ‘$100 billion in climate finance more of gesture from rich countries’

A round-up of what went on at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit

The digital is political

Technologies are not just agents of politics, there is politics in their design

What 3,000-year-old Egyptian wheat tells us about the genetics of our daily bread

Researchers sequenced the genome of a 3,000-year-old sample of Egyptian emmer wheat; Comparisons with modern samples suggest a story of how the …

Changing notions

Who were the first people to use the alphabet? Semitic people of Egypt, says a fresh discovery

Environmental change may have played a role at the dawn of Egyptian history — here’s how

As the environment changed, the Nile Delta gradually became much less rich in wild food resources

Miniature mammoths

Smaller version of mammoths may have inhabited Egypt long after they were thought to have become extinct

Ecology of violence

Violence in Sinai can be explained in its remoteness from Egypt’s power centers. Its desert ecology, mountain covers, and a long coastline …

All house cats have a common origin in the Fertile Crescent, says study

Cats were domesticated in the Near East around 10,000 years ago, when humans transitioned to sedentary farming from hunting-gathering  

‘Selous Game Reserve dam rooted in geopolitics over Nile’

Conservationist Mordecai Ogada says the decision to build a $3 billion dam on the Rufiji river that flows through the protected area is an …

Ecology becomes integral part of state policy

With pollution threatening to smother Egypt, environmental planning is becoming central to the country's economic policies

Dams and sea deliver death blow to Nile delta

Sandwiched between an encroaching sea and dams that prevent silt from reaching it, the Nile delta seems doomed.