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Several fires were visible in the Nile Delta in this image captured by the MODIS on the Terra satellite on October 28, 2007. Most of the fires in Egypt’s Nile Delta are north of Cairo ...

(The map here, a composite of NASA satellite images, spans from Lake Victoria to the Nile Delta.) The Nile is widely considered Earth's longest river, but that title isn't as simple as it sounds.

(NASA's now-retired Gravity Recovery and Climate ... Hemeda cites a December 2023 study of archaeological landscapes in Egypt's Nile Delta as an example of good dataset usage from archives.

Large-scale heavy metal pollution, coastal erosion and seawater intrusion pose an existential threat to the Nile River Delta and endanger 60 million people (about twice the population of Texas ...