Al-Masry Al-Youm Oil stains covered a distance of 150 meters in the Dai al-Qamr area of Ras Ghareb in the Red Sea governorate on Tuesday amid warnings of the spots extending to other areas and impacting beaches and maritime life on the Red Sea. The Operations Room in the Ministry of Environment decided to form […]

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Mira Maged July 30, 2019 Following various efforts put into place to transform Egypt into an environmentally friendly country, VeryNile in collaboration with UN Environment has launched a competition encouraging users to put forward alternatives to single-use plastics. Applicants are only required to submit two preliminary ideas or project plans through which society can stop […]

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Environment Minister Fadi Jreissati on Wednesday stressed the need to sort garbage at source in order to resolve the waste management crisis, as he blamed the state for a looming crisis as the Jdeideh landfill is nearing full capacity. “Without sorting waste at source there can be no solution for the crisis,” said Jreissati during […]

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By SONIA EPSTEIN 08/01/2019 Those with high exposure to nitrogen oxide concentrations (above 25 parts per billion) had a significant increase — up to 1.56 times — in their risk of prostate, breast and lung cancer. High exposure to air pollution from transportation vehicles is correlated with a 50% increase in prostate, breast and lung […]

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Environmental authorities seek to halt plan, arguing that it would seriously harm the landscape, including ancient agricultural sites Zafrir Rinat | Aug. 1, 2019 Plans now under discussion to ease Jerusalem’s traffic jams would cause significant harm to the Jerusalem Forest, one of the city’s most important “green lungs.” Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich recently ordered […]

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Al-Masry Al-Youm Egypt’s Minister of Environment Yasmin Fouad met on Tuesday the Governor of South Sinai Khaled Foda to discuss the ministry’s plan to develop South Sinai’s nature reserves, especially the Blue Hole and Ras Abu Galoum protectorates. Fouad said that the ministry supports the governorate’s initiative to transform Sharm el-Sheikh into a sustainable, green, […]

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