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 ...

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 ...

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CAIRO, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Egypt has set a new international tender for oil and gas exploration rights in the Nile Delta and Mediterranean sea, the state news agency reported on Tuesday.

CAIRO, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Egypt has assigned ExxonMobil oil and gas exploration rights to two offshore blocks in the outer Nile Delta, according to a company statement on Tuesday. The company's ...

(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.