Environment

In some of the world's poorest and most densely populated slums, buildings can be built so close to one another…

A project that could add 22 percent to Egypt’s natural gas supply is one year behind schedule because local residents…

The bitter gourd, alternatively called the balsam pear, is a tropical and subtropical vine widely grown in Asia, Africa and…

DURBAN, South Africa — The world's nations on Sunday set their sights on a new all-encompassing pact on climate change…

MANILA — Coral reefs on which fish stocks have dropped below 300 kilograms per hectare are likely to collapse and…

A mammoth problem facing the rather miniscule Egyptian tortoise, muses one veteran conservationist, is that it is obscenely cute. One…

The Wadi Degla Natural Protectorate, a geological formation in southeast Cairo that is over 50 million years old, has recently…

One of the few new faces in Kamal al-Ganzouri’s cabinet is Minister for Environmental Affairs Mostafa Hussein Kamel. A number…

A clean-up effort is underway as authorities try to contain an oil leak at five exploration areas in Gamsha Bay,…

"Ask for an education, even if you are in China" is one of the many supposedly motivational slogans painted on…