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Obama tells Britain no hard feelings over spill

US President Barack Obama looks at tar balls as he tours the beach at Port Fourchon Beach, Louisiana, on May 28, 2010 before a briefing on the federal government's response to the Gulf Coast oil spill. Obama stepped up the battle against a massive slick lapping the stricken Gulf Coast, vowing never to abandon those caught in the worst US oil spill. Tripling the manpower already feverishly working to protect the southern US coastline, he pledged
12 Jun 2010
London--President Barack Obama reassured Prime Minister David Cameron Saturday that his frustration over the mammoth oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is not an attack on Britain, Cameron's office said, as the two leaders tried to soothe...
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250,000 tons of garbage dumped by the Nile in Minya

12 Jun 2010
Villagers in the vicinity of Mallawy city of southern Minya governorate have accused the local council of dumping around 250,000 tons of garbage on the Nile Bank. The local council, however, claimed it dumped the garbage to fill up a marsh...
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World Environment Day in Egypt

World Environment Day Egypt, Al-Azhar park
07 Jun 2010
Both children and adults enjoyed interactive activities and competitions on the theme of the environment this Saturday in Azhar park, in a celebration of World Environment Day (WED), organized by the Egyptian Ministry of Environment in...
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Egypt obtains grant to protect Alexandria coast

Real estate prices considerably increase in Alexandria since end of year 2009 especially buildings overlooking the Mediterranean sea.
06 Jun 2010
The Global Environment Facility, under the auspices of the World Bank, has approved a grant valued at US$7.15 million to help finance an integrated management project to protect the Alexandrian coastal zone. The announcement of the grant...
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Conserving biodiversity: An epic failure

Biodiversity is under threat in Egypt and around the world
24 May 2010
In 2002, states at the Convention on Biological Diversity agreed to significantly reduce the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010. The target was, according to the recently published third edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook report...
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Sudan and Egypt to cooperate on water treatment

Egyptian organization : 38 million of Egyptians drink wastewater
15 May 2010
The Company for Drinking Water and Sewage in the governorate of Beheira and the Drinking Water Authority of the Sudanese Red Sea state signed a joint cooperation agreement seeking to improve water quality and increase water production in...
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2nd MENA solar forum convenes in Cairo

MENAsol 2010 conference at City Star Intercontinental, Cairo
06 May 2010
On 4 and 5 May, solar energy experts and industrialists from all over the world met in Egypt to discuss the potential for solar energy use in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The event, entitled MENASOL 2010, was held at...
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Egypt hosts conference on reducing poverty, protecting environment

Courtesy of the Hanns Seidel Foundation Egypt
03 May 2010
Last week the American University in Cairo hosted a conference to launch the WinWin Initiative as part of the Hanns Seidel Foundation's efforts to promote activities which observe both human and environmental interests in the sustainable...
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U.S. presses BP to stop gushing Gulf Coast oil leak

US President Barack Obama meets fishermen affected by the oil spill in Venice, Louisiana, as he visits the Gulf Coast region affected by the BP oil well spill, Sunday, 2 May, 2010.
03 May 2010
A huge oil slick caused by an underwater leak continued to creep toward the US Gulf Coast on Monday as the Obama administration pressed energy giant BP Plc to stem the oil gushing from its ruptured offshore well. The direction of the slick...
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Climate change to affect Egyptian agriculture

30 Apr 2010
Egypt does not have any specific plan to deal with the effects of climate change and global warming on its water resources and its share of the Nile River, said Mosad Qutb, director of the Central Laboratory for Agricultural Climate at the...
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