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Tourists from a cruise ship travel by boat to the Temple of Kalabsha on Lake Nasser, Egypt.
Ministry: Hot weather, giant sponges cleaned up Lake Nasser diesel spill
Al-Masry Al-Youm 11 Apr 2013
Ninety percent of the diesel that spilled into Lake Nasser on Sunday has already evaporated due to high temperatures in...
Monks, government face off over Fayoum nature reserve
Al-Masry Al-Youm 22 Nov 2012
Environment Minister Mostafa Hussein Kamel vowed the government would remove a monastery encroachment on the Wadi al-...
Nour Party boycotts new government
Al-Masry Al-Youm 01 Aug 2012
The Salafi-oriented Nour Party said it had rejected an appointment in President Mohamed Morsy's new government. A...
Piles of garbage strewn around the streets, Dar al-Salam, Cairo, 24 May, 2011.
Socialist party attacks Morsy's cleaning campaign
Egypt Independent 27 Jul 2012
The Socialist Popular Alliance Party criticized Friday President Mohamed Morsy's initiative that calls on Egyptians...
Another oil leakage in Red Sea's Gamsha Bay
Al-Masry Al-Youm 25 Jun 2012
  There was another leakage of light crude oil in Gamsha Bay on the Red Sea on Monday at both the onshore and...
Contract workers shovel oil from a beach impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Gulf Shores, Alabama.
Oil leaks for eighth time since September in Gamsha Bay
MENA 13 May 2012
Environmental teams and the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation declared a state of emergency after another oil...
Meteorite crater site becomes latest protected area
Andre Fecteau 27 Mar 2012
The Environment Ministry last week designated a meteorite crater with “unique phenomena” as Egypt’s...
Egypt's new minister of Environment
Mubarak environment minister left out of new cabinet
Hoda Baraka 07 Dec 2011
One of the few new faces in Kamal al-Ganzouri’s cabinet is Minister for Environmental Affairs Mostafa Hussein...
Burning rice straw, Daqahliya, September 29, 2010. Farmers still burn rice straw in spite of Ministry of Environment's warnings against straw burning and imposing fines that reaches LE 10,000.
Egypt prepares for arrival of 'black cloud'
Arabic Edition 25 Sep 2011
Local Development Minister Mohamed Ahmed Attiya has decided to make preparations to combat the burning of rice straw...
Container ship being unloaded
Group reveals dangerous insecticides held for 12 years at Suez port
Yasmine al-Qadi 11 Aug 2011
For 12 years, Egyptian authorities have kept quiet about containers holding internationally banned pesticides that are...