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Cairo’s black cloud

By Ben Morales-Correa

Image via Wikipedia Rice, a staple of the Egyptian diet, is normally grown on some 486,000 hectares of Egypt’s 3.2 million hectares of agricultural land. This year, farmers grew rice on an additional 162,000 hectares of land. Agriculture experts say that 0.404 hectares (one acre) of rice produces two tons of hay, meaning the country... »

An Environmental Make-Over for an Ancient Egyptian Industry

By Ben Morales-Correa

Since pharaonic times, mud bricks have been Egypt’s primary building material, and brick making has changed very little over the last few centuries. The industry still uses a crude methodology: barrels filled with mazot, a heavy oil left over after more valuable fuel products have been extracted from crude oil, are placed on top... »



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