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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
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Women have a greater risk of contracting avian flu
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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.
Looking for a non-Western lens to the Black Death? Try this translation of a work written in Mamluk Egypt
‘Merits of the Plague’ was written 600 years ago by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, a medieval polymath
In the future there will be more rain, but less water, in the Nile Basin
About 250 million people are reliant on the Nile’s waters in Ethiopia, Uganda, South Sudan, Sudan and Egypt
Southern trade losses offset gains in capital
Financial transfer estimates that generously portray Northern largesse are deceptive for they camouflage huge payments triggered by the Gulf war.
COP27: African bloc unhappy; says agreement on framework for adaptation goal being delayed
Parties have decided to initiate the development of a framework for GGA that will be considered and adopted in 2023
Why a chain of tiny Pacific islands wants an international court opinion on responsibility for the climate crisis
Vanuatu and its partners are pursuing a ground-breaking diplomatic strategy and others will likely follow
Infant mortality, youth unemployment among top exclusion factors in North Africa
Political instability and conflict have contributed significantly to exacerbate inequalities among some regions
'Dissatisfaction with quality of life triggered Arab Spring'
Standard development indicators failed to predict the outburst of anger in the spring of 2011, says a World Bank report
3 things a climate scientist wants world leaders to know ahead of COP27
Earth desperately needs COP27 to succeed; lack of progress at past talks means there is less optimism towards COP27 to achieve what is needed