Every autumn dark clouds appear over Cairo, the result of burning rice chaff in the Delta. But this year both the government and the religious authorities are getting tough with the perpetrators, reports Mahmoud Bakr

As Egypt prepares to showcase its efforts to go green while meeting its energy needs at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in December, World Bank Vice-President for Sustainable Development Katherine Sierra speaks to Niveen Wahish about the country's efforts to meet the challenges of climate change

I was taken in by a book that presents that global warming has no basis in scientific fact, and ended up learning the facts, says Jill Kamil