Egypt
Amador Ledger Dispatch (Anna Johnson)
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- Climate Change: Sites In Peril
Archaeology Magazine (Andrew Curry) My excuse for featuring this article is that as well as looking at the impacts of climate change on archaeological sites from many parts of the globe, it looks at the effects that desertification in the Sudan will have...
- Modern Egypt: Egyptian Officials, Farmers Debate Effect Of Climate Change On Fertile Nile Delta
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (Joseph Mayton) A little off-topic but I thought that some visitors would find this story of interest. ALONG THE Nile Delta’s many tributaries, life is good for Makram, a young farmer who is working the land...
- Rising Sea Levels Threaten Egypt's Ancient Cities
npr (Liane Hansen) In Egypt's ancient city of Alexandria, waves from the Mediterranean Sea send foam crashing over the sea wall and onto hundreds of concrete barriers built to protect the city from the rising waters. The crumbling barriers of Alexandria's...
- More Re Pre-alexandrian Alexandria
Courier Journal Coastal geoarchaeologist Jean-Daniel Stanley of the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History said his team's work suggested a much larger community at Rhakotis than previously believed. The discoveries, reported in the August issue...
- With The Rise Of Lake Nasser: 40 Years Later
The Aswan damn of the 1960's created a new lake and drowned the original sites of more than two dozen ancient monuments while completely drowning the Nile's less impressive architectural monuments such as a number of mud brick middle kingdom forts....
Egypt
Mediterranean Sea level changes threaten Nile Delta
Amador Ledger Dispatch (Anna Johnson)
The Delta was already in danger, threatened by the side effects of southern Egypt's Aswan Dam. Though the dam, completed in 1970, generates much-needed electricity and controls Nile River flooding, it also keeps nutrient sediment from replenishing the eroding Delta.Add climate change to the mix, and the Delta faces new uncertainties that could have a potentially more devastating effect on Egypt.
Scientists generally predict that the Mediterranean, and the world's other seas, will rise between one foot and 3.3 feet by the end of the century, flooding coastal areas along the Delta.Already, the Mediterranean has been creeping upward about .08 inches annually for the last decade, flooding parts of Egypt's shoreline, el-Raey said.
By 2100, the rising waters could wipe out the sandy beaches that attract thousands of tourists. Also at risk would be the buried treasures archaeologists are still uncovering in ancient Alexandria, once the second most important city in the Roman Empire.
See the above for the full story.
- Climate Change: Sites In Peril
Archaeology Magazine (Andrew Curry) My excuse for featuring this article is that as well as looking at the impacts of climate change on archaeological sites from many parts of the globe, it looks at the effects that desertification in the Sudan will have...
- Modern Egypt: Egyptian Officials, Farmers Debate Effect Of Climate Change On Fertile Nile Delta
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (Joseph Mayton) A little off-topic but I thought that some visitors would find this story of interest. ALONG THE Nile Delta’s many tributaries, life is good for Makram, a young farmer who is working the land...
- Rising Sea Levels Threaten Egypt's Ancient Cities
npr (Liane Hansen) In Egypt's ancient city of Alexandria, waves from the Mediterranean Sea send foam crashing over the sea wall and onto hundreds of concrete barriers built to protect the city from the rising waters. The crumbling barriers of Alexandria's...
- More Re Pre-alexandrian Alexandria
Courier Journal Coastal geoarchaeologist Jean-Daniel Stanley of the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History said his team's work suggested a much larger community at Rhakotis than previously believed. The discoveries, reported in the August issue...
- With The Rise Of Lake Nasser: 40 Years Later
The Aswan damn of the 1960's created a new lake and drowned the original sites of more than two dozen ancient monuments while completely drowning the Nile's less impressive architectural monuments such as a number of mud brick middle kingdom forts....