All posts tagged "pollution"

The World Bank announced the approval of a USD 400 million (EGP 7 billion) development financing agreement...

The cost of air pollution and sea degradation is estimated to be over three percent of GDP...

It has been suggested that by 2050, there will be more plastic in the world’s oceans than...

Egypt launched a new initiative to plant one million trees in public gardens across the country over...

Egypt produces 5.4 million tonnes of plastic annually, making it the biggest plastic polluter in the Arab...

Conversations in Egypt about the climate crisis are not as loud as they ought to be. Sea...

Egypt launched a clean up campaign in Ismailia Governorate to remove the infamous “garbage mountain”, a 20...

According to local media outlets, Egypt’s Ministry of Sports and Youth is launching a national sports initiative...

City Council President Tarek El Baz announced an initiative to prevent the use of plastic in the...

In a bid to promote electric cars in Egypt, the Ministry of Interior has announced that it...

Cairo has a waste problem that is too big for its public funding agencies and the Zabbaleen...

Egypt jumps up to 66th place on Yale’s 2018 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) out of 180 countries,...

Young Egyptian secondary student Shirouk Mohamed pitched a project idea that generates electricity from inorganic waste and...

Bassita, a click-funding initiative famous for its social media awareness campaigns, introduced the ‘VeryNile’ initiative on Saturday,...

A new initiative by Egyptian start-up Bassita is introducing ‘VeryNile’ an initiative to solve Egypt’s Nile pollution...

When the most common diseases in Egypt are reported to be bacterial diarrhoea, typhoid fever, and schistosomiasis – which...

In February 2018, Egyptian singer Sherine Abdel Wahab was sentenced to six months in jail after a...