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Articles of the author Louise Sarant
Green initiatives of the year
Various exciting initiatives have sprouted in the field of environment this year. Three of them in particular have shown extraordinary ambition and dynamism, in the various fields of sustainable agriculture, climate change and the preservation of (...)

31 - 12 - 2012
A year of environmental ups and downs
Egypt has been confronted this year with numerous calamities that ranged from food security issues and contaminated tap water to rampant urban encroachment. While most of these issues have not yet been resolved, the conversation has been broadened (...)

30 - 12 - 2012
When migrating birds and wind turbines collide
Egypt is a windy country, with wind speeds that can reach over 10 meters per second in certain strategic areas: along the Red Sea coast, in Suez and at the southern tip of Sinai in Ras Mohamed. No wonder then that foreign investors, manufacturers (...)

20 - 12 - 2012
The politics of food
Egypt's food production suffers from schizophrenia: it ranges from a tomato grown in sewage water and sprayed by killer pesticides to a perfect orange, grown following strict international quality and safety standards. The fruit and vegetable stalls (...)

08 - 11 - 2012
How to grow a rooftop garden and wring pollution''s neck
Egypt's capital spreads cement tentacles over what used to be extremely viable agricultural land, replacing it with rickety brick towers. North and south, east and west, as far as the eye can see, Cairo is an immensity of grey, dotted with millions (...)

23 - 09 - 2012
Tests on rats suggest genetically modified foods pose health hazards
When scientist Hussein Kaoud decided to test genetically modified food on rats, he produced results that were extremely alarming and corroborate the conclusions that some international, independent scientists have reached. Kaoud, of Cairo (...)

12 - 08 - 2012
After the latest contamination scandal, can you trust your water?
It is a common perception worldwide that drinking bottled water is safer than consuming tap water. In Egypt specifically, people have little faith in the safety of the water that runs from the tap, in light of the country's exceedingly high level of (...)

04 - 07 - 2012
High-speed internet network could enhance global scientific collaboration
Egypt's research is currently experiencing a technological breakthrough with the recent introduction of a high-speed internet network that offers research institutes and universities access to a data transfer speed of up to 10 gigabits per second, (...)

11 - 06 - 2012
Egypt mourns Mohamed Kassas, the country''s pioneer environmentalist
The environmental and scientific communities in Egypt are mourning the death of one of its most renowned colleagues and friends, Mohamed Kassas. The 91-year-old, considered “the father of Egypt's environment,” died this morning after spending more (...)

21 - 03 - 2012
Bird hunting in Egypt an unregulated and unmonitored activity
The bird hunting season that reopened on 25 December is ending today in a country blessed with a massive seasonal influx of migratory birds, many of which are protected species. This is the first time that the government has allowed the reopening of (...)

05 - 02 - 2012
Endangered species for dinner: Hurghada hotels display sharks on buffet tables
Two hotels from the Pickalbatros chain in Hurghada have been flagrantly and ostentatiously flouting wildlife protection laws, serving up buffets of endangered fish and sharks. With the corpses of the sharks, rays and parrot fish hanging from the (...)

19 - 01 - 2012
The world''s cheapest light bulbs are … plastic bottles!
In some of the world's poorest and most densely populated slums, buildings can be built so close to one another that daylight cannot find its way into the living spaces. Given the high price of electricity, many inhabitants do not use light bulbs, (...)

14 - 12 - 2011
Traditional cooking in Egypt''s rural areas
Last September, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued an alarming report naming Indoor Air Pollution (IAP) as the leading cause of death worldwide. The report asserts that IAP claims no less than 2 million lives a year, particularly in (...)

20 - 11 - 2011
Safety gear for small animals: Canadian artist takes on ecological cause
The work of Canadian concept artist Bill Burns is currently being exhibited in Bristol, England, in the Arnolfini gallery. One may wonder, with reason, why on Earth the environment section of Al-Masry Al-Youm would cover the work of an artist who is (...)

08 - 11 - 2011
Is indoor air quality as bad as outdoors?
Until the 1970s indoor air quality in the non-industrial sector - in homes and work environments, for example - was neither particularly studied nor a subject of concern. What gave rise to awareness was the outbreak of diseases caused by exposure to (...)

27 - 10 - 2011
Endangered Species: Egypt''s gazelles
This article is part of Al-Masry Al-Youm's weekly “Endangered Species” series, covering Egypt's endangered flora and fauna. Egypt's gazelle population has decreased consistently and drastically for the past four decades mainly due to two factors: (...)

21 - 10 - 2011
French Interior Ministry cracks down on foreign graduates
Boubker Benseddiq, a 26-year-old Moroccan national, recently graduated from INSA-Toulouse, a well-respected French public university of engineering. In May, he got a job as an engineer in the petroleum industry. Right after being hired, he handed (...)

20 - 10 - 2011
In Paris, ''Chicago'' becomes ''I Wish I Were Egyptian''
This month, the first adaptation of Egyptian novelist Alaa al-Aswany's “Chicago” is showing at the Amandiers Theater in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre. Published in 2006, “Chicago” depicts the lives of Egyptian students at a university in the (...)

17 - 10 - 2011
Egyptian NGO competes for BBC''s World Challenge
A Fustat-based NGO is the first Egyptian organization to compete in the BBC's World Challenge, which rewards environmental and social projects worldwide. BBC World News and Newsweek selected "El Nafeza" (The Window) as one of 12 finalists for the (...)

05 - 10 - 2011
Asbestos, despite the ban, is killing people more than ever
Egypt's asbestos factories were officially closed down in 2005, and yet the impact of this extremely dangerous material is being felt more vividly than ever today, because of the long timespan between the actual exposure to deadly asbestos fibers (...)

26 - 09 - 2011
Red Sea: Oil leak prompts govt to declare emergency near Hurghada
Egyptian authorities have declared a state of emergency along the Red Sea coast after Egypt's General Petroleum Corporation informed local officials that one of the company's wells has been leaking from three spots in Gamsha, a village north of (...)

22 - 09 - 2011
Postcard from Barfleur: Lunch at Cafe de France
Barfleur is France's smallest town, occupying less than 60 hectares at the extreme western tip of Lower Normandy, and has been labeled one of the country's most charming villages. The town is battered by the salty winds that blow in from the harbor (...)

18 - 09 - 2011
Community self-advocacy needed to solve regional water mismanagement
“Global Sister Cities and Twinning Summit”, a three-day series of conferences that ended Friday at the Fairmont Nile Tower, brought together leaders from citizen diplomacy organizations to discuss the key role played by the people-to-people type of (...)

09 - 09 - 2011
Crayfish in the Nile: A threat to biodiversity with potential for a booming industry
During the 1980s, an Egyptian shrimp farmer imported what he thought were the larvae of US freshwater shrimp. After growing the new species in his fish farm, however, he discovered that instead of shrimp, the larvae had developed into sharp-clawed (...)

05 - 09 - 2011
Japan pushes forward with solar power projects in Egypt
Although the economic slump of past months has stalled most of Egypt's industrial projects, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), undeterred by the volatile investor climate, is pursuing two solar projects here. About a week ago, Japan (...)

13 - 07 - 2011
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