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Irrigation Ministry: Prevent rice cultivation in deserts

24 Apr 2013
Water Resources and Irrigation Minister Mohamed Bahaa Eddin has called for the prohibition of rice cultivation in desert lands, which is already forbidden by law, so as to reduce overdraft of water from aquifers. “The groundwater...
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Scientists find Antarctic ice is melting faster

15 Apr 2013
The summer ice melt in parts of Antartica is at its highest level in 1,000 years, Australian and British researchers reported on Monday, adding new evidence of the impact of global warming on sensitive Antarctic glaciers and ice shelves....
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Climate change forcing Egypt to change agriculture practices

12 Apr 2013
Agriculture Minister Salah Abdel Momen commissioned the Agricultural Research Center to review their recommendations for harvesting wheat, corn, cotton and rice following the release of new information regarding the impact of climate...
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Ministry: Hot weather, giant sponges cleaned up Lake Nasser diesel spill

Tourists from a cruise ship travel by boat to the Temple of Kalabsha on Lake Nasser, Egypt.
11 Apr 2013
Ninety percent of the diesel that spilled into Lake Nasser on Sunday has already evaporated due to high temperatures in Aswan, the Environment Ministry claimed on Thursday. The rest of the spill was mopped up by the Armed Forces with huge...
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Shale-gas rich Spanish region bans 'fracking'

09 Apr 2013
Lawmakers in Spain's northern Cantabria region unanimously voted on Monday to ban hydraulic fracturing on environmental concerns, shooting down the central government's hopes for a project to boost jobs in a region believed to be...
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Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant leaking contaminated water

An aerial view shows the quake-damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant in the Japanese town of Futaba, Fukushima prefecture, March 12, 2011. Japan scrambled to prevent nuclear accidents at two atomic plants where reactor cooling systems failed after a massive earthquake, as it evacuated tens of thousands of residents. Tokyo Electric Power, which runs the plants, said it had released some radioactive vapour into the atmosphere at one plant to relieve building reactor pressure, but said the move posed no health risks.
06 Apr 2013
As much as 120 tons of radioactive water may have leaked from a storage tank at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, contaminating the surrounding ground, the Tokyo Electric Power Company said on Saturday. The power company has...
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Egyptian documentary on migratory birds selected by Al Jazeera Festival

31 Mar 2013
Gabriel Mikhail is an Egyptian eco-architect, wildlife photographer and creator of “Egypt’s Wilderness,” the country’s first natural history channel on YouTube. He recently directed a 17-minute documentary on...
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Exxon pipeline leaks thousands of barrels of Canadian oil in Arkansas

31 Mar 2013
Exxon Mobil was working to clean up thousands of barrels of oil in Mayflower, Arkansas, after a pipeline carrying heavy Canadian crude ruptured, a major spill likely to stoke debate over transporting Canada's oil to the United States....
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Monsanto, DuPont settle antitrust, patent lawsuits

 
26 Mar 2013
  Monsanto Co and DuPont have settled a bitter legal battle over rights to technology for genetically modified seeds and will drop antitrust and patent lawsuits against each other in US federal court, the companies said on Tuesday....
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Warming temperatures could multiply Katrina-like hurricanes: study

Bad weather after Hurricane Sandy hit US East Coast, 31 October 2012. Hurricane Sandy began battering the US East Coast Monday with fierce winds and driving rain, as the monster storm shut down transportation, shuttered businesses and sent thousands scrambling for higher ground hours before the worst was due to strike.
19 Mar 2013
The number of Atlantic storms with magnitude similar to killer Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast in 2005, could rise sharply this century, environmental researchers reported on Monday. Scientists have long studied the...
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