Egypt’s Fertile Nile Delta Falls Prey To Climate Change (afp)

Egyptian workers make beds of sand to protect their palm trees in the Nile Delta region of Rosetta, northwest of the captial Cairo. Dramatic ecological changes and rising sea levels are threatening Egypt's Nile Delta which provides a third of the country's crops, raising food security fears in the Arab world's most populous country.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki)AFP – The Nile Delta, Egypt’s bread basket since antiquity, is being turned into a salty wasteland by rising seawaters, forcing some farmers off their lands and others to import sand in a desperate bid to turn back the tide.

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