Praised by the government as a means of boosting trade, business and easing travel between the two countries, environmental activists are crying foul over where the bridge aims to be built: right on the Ras Mohamed National Park – one of Egypt’s natural wonders home to coral reefs, dive sites and endangered species. ”If MORE >>

Before now, the environment has been glaringly absent from Egypt’s political agenda, but our friends over at Almasry Alyoum have compiled a fantastic list of would-be parliamentarians who seek to change that. PARTIES: The Green Party of Egypt: Founded in 1990. Freedom Egypt Party (Misr Al-Hurriya): Formed in May 2011. MORE >>

For generations she had always appeared as a sign that the Nile would soon flood, bringing water, fertile sediment and life to the people of Egypt. Egypt’s pyramid-building Old Kingdom met its demise. The drought 4200 years ago corresponds with the end of the Old Kingdom, the pyramid builders of Egypt. Finally she came.  MORE >>

An investigation is underway to determine the deaths of dozens of sea turtles that washed up on Egypt’s Mediterranean shore last week. It isn’t clear which species have turned up in Egypt, but six out of seven marine turtles species are listed as endangered on the IUCN Red List of threatened species. MORE >>

In the last couple of years mycology research in Egypt has been flourishing as new research studies and projects are beginning to look at ways in which fungi could help overcome many of the economic and social problems in the Middle East North Africa region. Energy Food & Health biofuel Egypt fungiWhile Hekmat M. Morshedy, a Ph D. MORE >>