Mediterranean coast, Alexandria, Egypt. Photo source: ©© Emie Reyes
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Egyptian leaders uncovered plans for a new capital city east of Cairo to ease congestion and overpopulation in the next 40 years.
The exact location has yet to be determined, but developers and city leaders said it will be between the Suez and the Ain Sokhna roads and close to the Red Sea…
Nile Delta Disappearing Beneath the Sea (01-29-2014)
In a report released in September 2013, the IPCC predicts a sea level rise of 28 to 98 centimetres by 2100. Even by the most conservative estimate, this would destroy 12.5 percent of Egypt’s cultivated areas and displace about eight million people, or nearly 10 percent of the population. But it is not just rising sea levels that threaten Egypt’s northern coast, the delta itself is sinking…
Can Egypt Escape Its Climate Future? Guardian UK (11-19-2011)
“The Mediterranean is remorselessly battering the Egyptian coastline. Salt is leaching into the rich soils and invading the drinking water wells, 1,000-year-old homes are being eroded from below. Sea levels are inexorably rising and storms are becoming more intense…”
Calls for Advances in Resotration Sedimentology to Protect World’s River Deltas, Science Daily (11-07-2012)
As land is disappearing from river deltas at alarming rates, rapid advances in the new and developing field of restoration sedimentology will be needed to protect the world’s river deltas from an array of threats…
Nile Delta Desert Islands: An Artist And A Scientist Symbiotic Point of View
Although remote and undeveloped, the Nile Delta desert islands reveal the critical state of the Nile River and its people. The Delta is sinking and the barrier islands are receding…
