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World
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Africa
1/30/2023 1:53:51 PM
Vultures scavenge for dead animals along a river turned sewer conduit in Kenya's capital Nairobi. Its waters turn from clear to black as it traverses informal settlements and industrial hubs.
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Multimedia
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In Pictures
1/30/2023 12:33:05 PM
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World
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International
1/19/2023 5:22:52 PM
Emergency teams in Serbia are searching for two people who were swept away by a swollen river in a southwestern town, state RTS television reported on Thursday.
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Egypt
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Society
1/18/2023 2:27:28 PM
Entrepreneurial young Egyptians are helping combat their country's huge plastic waste problem by recycling junk-food wrappers, water bottles and similar garbage that usually ends up in landfills or the Nile.
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World
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International
1/15/2023 7:43:16 PM
Relentless storms from a series of atmospheric rivers have saturated the steep mountains and bald hillsides scarred from wildfires along much of long coastline, causing hundreds of landslides this month.
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World
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International
1/15/2023 6:56:03 PM
A plane making a 27-minute flight to a Nepal tourist town crashed into a gorge Sunday while attempting to land at a newly opened airport, killing at least 68 of the 72 people aboard. At least one witness reported hearing cries for help from within the fiery wreck, the country's deadliest airplane accident in three decades.
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World
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International
1/10/2023 1:05:13 PM
The latest in a relentless string of storms slammed California on Monday, swamping roads, battering coastlines with high surf, turning rivers into gushing flood zones and forcing the evacuation of thousands in towns with histories of deadly mudslides.
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World
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International
12/31/2022 10:52:59 PM
A powerful storm Saturday ushered in the new year in California, with much of the state witnessing drenching rain or heavy snowfall that was snarling traffic and closing highways.
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World
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International
12/25/2022 9:33:53 PM
Six people died and two were injured after a bus plunged into a river overnight while crossing a bridge in Spain's northwestern Galicia region, officials said Sunday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
12/25/2022 10:59:00 AM
The war in Ukraine downplayed the urgency of reaching an agreement on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam this year.
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World
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International
12/16/2022 3:38:20 PM
A U.S.-French satellite that will map almost all of the world's oceans, lakes, and rivers rocketed into orbit Friday.
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World
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International
12/4/2022 1:10:59 PM
Indonesia's Mount Semeru erupted Sunday spewing hot ash clouds a mile into the sky and sending rivers of lava down its side, sparking the evacuation of nearly 2,000 people exactly one year after its last major eruption killed dozens.
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Egypt
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Tourism
11/30/2022 1:26:37 PM
New York-based travel website and magazine Travel + Leisure has recommended Egypt’s Cairo and the Nile River among the 50 best cultural places to visit in 2023.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/17/2022 4:49:36 PM
Israel and Jordan signed a declaration of intent on Thursday at the U.N. climate conference to conserve and protect their shared Jordan River - a sacred waterway nearly running dry because of climate change, pollution and other threats.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/14/2022 11:18:53 AM
Letoyie Leroshi walked for five days hunting water. After three years of drought in Samburu County, Kenya, the riverbeds were bone-dry.
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World
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War in Ukraine
11/11/2022 1:32:05 PM
The Russian Defense Ministry says it has finished pulling out its troops from the western bank of the Dnieper River in Ukraine's southern Kherson region.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/10/2022 1:12:47 PM
Where the mother of all rivers meets the Atlantic Ocean in coastal Brazil, it's not a single channel, instead, it braids around 230 kilometres (142 miles) of islands including the Bailique Archipelago.
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World
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War in Ukraine
11/10/2022 12:54:49 PM
Russia ordered its troops to abandon the Dnipro river's west bank only hours after Yevgen Gamiy had another lucky escape from an incoming fire on its east.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/9/2022 10:51:34 AM
Fish, rice, mangrove trees and the lush delta wetlands where the massive Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna rivers drain into the Bay of Bengal.
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Sports
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Africa
11/3/2022 12:05:29 AM
Nigerian football supporters had two reasons to celebrate on Wednesday as Rivers United and Plateau United scored nine goals between them in CAF Confederation Cup play-off triumphs.
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