Latest in Tag: Plants Highlight
Latest in Tag: Plants
Time running out to save the Earth’s plants and animals
Five new reports unveiled at a UN biodiversity summit in Colombia are sounding the alarm over the rapidly deteriorating state of biodiversity on our planet. But they also provide the tools to fight back.Delegates at a major international summit on biodiversity in MedellĂn, Colombia have been rattled after being presented with stark new evidence about …
Introduced bees found in North Sinai threaten plants, native bees in region
Non-native species provide economic support, harm environment
EEHC contracts on civil works of West Cairo and El Waleedya plants for EGP 3.2bn
Hassan Allam–CCC alliance implements first phase, Orascom Construction implements second
The last of their kind
Many animals and plants are on the verge of extinction. For Endangered Species Day, we look at some of the rarest among them.The Maui’s dolphin only lives in the coastal waters of New Zealand and only its North Island. While there were still about 2000 Maui’s dolphins in the 1970s, there are only 45 of …
Peace, plants and hip-hop in Colombia
In the conflict-ravaged Colombian city of Medellin, rappers have taken up urban farming to nourish their community and plant the seeds of peace.With big Creole earrings, a bandana, and the crotch of his trousers hanging between his knees, Luis Fernando Alvarez looks more like a rapper than a farmer. Actually, he’s both. Luis, or “El …
Electricity Ministry to cancel contract with consultant to manage Siemens plants
EDF offered €8m and RWE offered with EGP 16mÂ
In Pictures: Between the clouds
By Nayera Yasser In one leap he crosses metres, in one leap he elegantly moves from one place to another. He is not some mystical creature; in fact, he is a human being with a whimsical job. In the land where some of the country’s rarest plants and palm trees stand, the date harvesting season …
New Tiba-Qena road lighted with solar energy
Solar energy plant starts operations with capacity of 90 KW in New Tiba City
Poor technical conditions in power stations worsen due to outages and wasted fuel: EGAS official
Petroleum ministry supplies fuel to electricity worth approximately $72m per day
Egypt, UNIDO in $2.9m cooperation for development of medical, aromatic plants: Industry minister
Cooperation will include founding and activation of “first quality organisation for the production, trading and manufacturing of medical and aromatic plants”, says minister
Spring exhibition in Orman Park
The annual Spring Flowers exhibition in Orman Park will begin 30 March and last until the end of April.
The green world of Khadra
Family run Khadra is one of the places where you can find a large variety of home grown plants, shrubs and trees
The white gold of Egypt
Egyptian cotton is renowned the world over for its quality. It is transformed into sumptuous bed sheets or into made to measure, button-down shirts and that are worn by the worlds rich and famous are sold in glittering high-end stores for small fortunes. The cotton starts much more humbly though and this time of year …
Photo Gallery: Bozoor Balady seed-bombing campaign in Cairo
Egypt got seed bombed today