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 ...

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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.

Egyptian Natural Gas Holding (EGAS) awarded four exploration contracts in the Mediterranean and Nile Delta to foreign companies, with minimum investments of $281 million and $7.5 million in signing ...