Egypt has experienced rapid population growth in recent decades. Between 1986 to 2018, the number of people in the country doubled. If the current rate of population growth continues, the number of ...

The first phase of a project that aims to expand agricultural lands, increase crop production, and achieve food self-sufficiency was inaugurated last week. The project, the Future of Egypt Industrial ...

State media reported last year that the New Capital plans to use water treatment plants to supply the ... expanding far into the desert surrounding Cairo. Egypt’s New Capital is the latest ...

Few travelers venture into that 90 percent. The vast Western Desert, which blends into Libya and beyond, is Egypt’s great unknown. Adventurers since Alexander the Great have braved the harsh ...

The ancient Egyptian fortress was in use around 2,000 years ago in the Sinai Desert.

Today, 31 pyramids built between the 27th and 18th centuries B.C.—almost 1,000 years—are strung along the foothills of Egypt’s Western Desert plateau ... the remains of plants and seashells ...

lie half-covered in the sand – a sight as "astonishing" as any in Egypt. We drove over dunes, and passed through the Black Desert (where the hills are "charred" with basalt) and the White Desert ...

was so moved by the power of Egypt’s mountains — believed to be where Moses received the Ten Commandments — that he went on to traverse some 7,000 miles of this high desert wilderness with ...

Increasingly frequent and severe heat waves in the Southwest are damaging some desert plants known for thriving in harsh conditions. Saguaro cacti and agave have both suffered in sweltering ...

Despite the desert environment of the Coachella Valley, most of the landscaping here is predominantly made up of non-native and even tropical plants. Although aesthetically pleasing, these plants ...