This slow-motion environmental horror show is a double-headed menace: It threatens to drown Alexandria – parts of the city are already below sea level – and to turn vast amounts of farmland in the Nile Delta, one of the most productive agricultural regions in the Mediterranean since antiquity, poisonous with salinity. As the problem increases, Egypt faces a long-term food crisis.
Overdevelopment – dams, highways, factories, intensive farming, urban sprawl – in the finely balanced ecosystems along the River Nile and in the Nile Delta is speeding up the overall degradation, some of which, like the battered shoreline, is plainly visible. Mr. Sabry, 65, began his career in diving medicine, sports traumatology and surgical emergencies. But his love was always scuba diving. In 2000, when he was chief of diving medicine at Sharm el-Sheikh Hospital on the Red Sea, he decided to build a diving centre in Alexandria as a base for exploring the ancient, drowned city of Heracleion, the submerged remains of Cleopatra’s palace, and shipwrecks from the Napoleonic era and the First World War.how climate change has altered the waters.
Many Egyptian farmers do not understand the science behind climate change, or even the term itself. But as men and women of land that has been worked for 100 generations, they know that all is not right under their feet. “I’m worried about climate change and salinization,” he said. “I’m worried about my life. Farming is the only thing I know how to do. I guess I will keep changing the crops until I find something that works.”
The farms with the greatest salinity lie closest to the Mediterranean, where the delta is subsiding; saline levels are gradually increasing father south. Warming temperatures are making the situation worse by increasing evaporation of the fresh irrigation water.
BS
They'll be fine
Defund and boycott the globe and mail and all government tax payer funded state media. They lie, hide the truth, fear monger and spew propoganda.
The climate has always been changing, always will.
😂😂😂😂 The f🤬cking pressTITUTES again with their bs/lies.
Omg
When?
Rising oceans flooding ocean front properties .... Hmmm, guess that's why Obama bought an Atlantic Ocean property
Obama said this was happening then bought oceanfront property. Weird.
Lies and propaganda to tax people into the poor house. We are on to your bullshit
This is no joke. Al Gore warned us that the north pole would be completely melted by 2013. Just wait and see.
Ya fackin liars
Here we go....
Please stop this propaganda.
The usual fearmongering from the Globe.
Climate change is normal...stop with the BS!
I doubt but nice try trudeau...the owner of global and mail'
No, It doesn’t.
LIES
Just burn it down again and blame the enemy - all conservative thinking people-... again
Lies
Usual climate hysteria
Climate hoax!
Anti vaxxing truckers don’t care and say screw the Egyptians
TETRAPODS ARE OKAY,A WALL WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE.
Lol, Alexandria is as old as God Shit happens
Sure.
Ah,ok.
There are smart countries using climate change as a powerful tool to win global competition. There are also losers being used, mainly by their own choice though.
Somebody please tell me how much the water has risen in the last 150 years that’s all bullshit
Nope. It should read. Legacy media post more misinformation to scare the public into believing a crooked agenda
Climate change is a hoax. Btw…how about all the seaside cities that have been under water for +1000 years. Climate change? Nope
Who causes climate change before humans? Who caused the ice age? Is that not climate change? Climate scam… climate changes with or with our help
Climate change would also cause oceans to rise 12 feet by the year 2000 and eliminate all ice and snow from the North Pole by 2008. - The UN/media climate change fear mongering loses its sting after 30 years of failed 'science'
In which century?
When climate changed before it pushed the area under water. Like major cities that are underwater. All because of plastic straws ans gas powered cars. If only they went electric sooner. And used diesel to mine and process the resources for the batteries
DO SOMETHING! 🙄🤪
I’m sure a carbon tax on the middle class will reverse that. 🤡