A new educational environmental travel project, “Dayma,” offers a creative and alternative gateway to discovering and embracing Egypt's natural beauty.
Dayma, which means everlasting, enduring and sustainable in Arabic, perfectly describes what the (...)
The damage inflicted on Egypt's lakes testifies to man's ability to quickly destroy what nature took centuries to create.
Lakes — or wetlands — add to the varied topography of the country, but environmental damage is seriously jeopardizing their (...)
Omar Samra, the first Egyptian to climb Mount Everest in 2007, is one step away from achieving his "7 Summits Challenge” of climbing the highest peak on each of the seven continents.
Last January Samra successfully climbed the sixth of these seven (...)
Egypt is currently gripped by campaign frenzy as candidates prepare for the upcoming parliamentary elections. Not only is there a staggering number of new political parties, but also issues that had previously been overlooked are finally being (...)
It would be difficult to negate the view that our planet is facing an increasing amount of environmental problems.
Environmentalists strive to highlight the fact that ongoing efforts seeking to address these wide-ranging problems still fall short in (...)
Measuring the gross domestic product (GDP) of a nation continues to be the main indicator of its economic strength. GDP refers to the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country during a given period of time; a country's (...)
Food safety is a multi-layered problem involving an array of issues, whether environmental, health or economic in nature. What seems to distinguish it, in Egypt at least, is the fact that it is yet to receive the attention required to address it (...)
Al-Masry Al-Youm met with Ali Gomaa, Grand Mufti of Egypt, as part of our Green Profile series, in which prominent figures discuss pressing environmental issues.
Al-Masry Al-Youm: How important is the environment within the Islamic doctrine? And in (...)
Unfortunately, the environment has not been a priority for Egypt. Like in the case of many other developing countries, environmentally sound development is often depicted as being in tension with economic profit.
In the Arab World, a region severely (...)
The yearly environmental event Earth Hour -- which began in 2007 -- will be held today. For one hour, starting at 8.30 PM local time, people are asked to turn off all non-essential light and power. The intention is that people reflect, in the (...)
In 2009, Abu Dhabi was chosen to host the headquarters of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). It is to be located in Masdar City, which aims to be the first city in the world to run entirely on solar and other types of renewable (...)
Online social media served as a pivotal tool throughout the 18 days of mass protests that led up to the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, and has now become a space in which Egypt's youth convene to discuss how to build the nation's (...)
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. That is what I view to be the nature of the conflicting emotions which have been surfacing from this two-week old revolution, from emancipation, to anxiety, to anger, to sadness and frustration, (...)
For almost two weeks now Egypt has been gripped by a rapidly changing political landscape, triggered by protesters taking to the streets on January 25 in what has been dubbed a youth-led revolution.
The streets of Cairo, and other major cities (...)
As part of our Green Profile series, in which prominent figures discuss pressing environmental issues, Al-Masry Al-Youm spoke to Ismail Serageldin, director of the Library of Alexandria, about increasing concerns over water availability and (...)
The UN Climate Change Conference--recently held in Cancun, Mexico--delivered what is considered to be a balanced package of decisions in the form of the ‘Cancun Agreements' to serve as a foundation for future talks.
After serious concerns about the (...)
Entering the emirate of Abu Dhabi, one is greeted by the truly majestic and breath-taking mosque of Sheikh Zayed, widely considered to be one of the most beautiful mosques in the world. Visiting the mosque made me understand why.
Not only is the (...)
As 2010 comes to an end, Al-Masry Al-Youm takes a look at the main environmental news--both local and international--for this year.
Climate Change: The year kicked off with turbulence for the climate change agenda. Firstly, the fiasco of the (...)
Al-Masry Al-Youm met with Professor Fernand Cohen from the electrical and computer engineering department at the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, Drexel University, when he visited the American University in Cairo to (...)
The following is Al-Masry Al-Youm's interview with Hisham Zaazou, senior assistant to Egypt's Minister of Tourism, as part of our Green Profile series, in which prominent figures discuss pressing environmental issues. Al-Masry Al-Youm caught up with (...)
It's been one year since the world witnessed the fiasco that was the Copenhagen Summit. At that event, some 120 world leaders were supposed to have arrived at a new climate deal but ended up instead with a non-binding agreement, the so-called (...)
Abu Dhabi--Monday saw the launch of the World Green Tourism conference in Abu Dhabi, a three-day event seen as the first global event in the Arabian Gulf devoted to the development of--and investment in--sustainable tourism.
The conference aims to (...)
Siwa Oasis became a protectorate in 2002 as per Prime Ministerial decree number 1219, although nowadays visitors would have a hard time noticing any overt measures meant to be in place to ensure that the environment in the area is in fact protected. (...)
Al-Masry Al-Youm met with Dr. Ossam El-Tayeb, Professor Emeritus of Microbiology and Immunology, founding Director of the Microbial Biotechnology Center at Cairo University, and Adviser to the Egyptian Biosafety Clearing House, as part of our Green (...)
World governments are set to agree on three big boosts for biodiversity and human security during the meeting of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) currently underway in Japan. Set to run until 29 October, the meeting, known as the (...)