Peter Prokosch

Managing Director at UNEP/GRID-Arendal.

Country: DE

Web site: http://www.grida.no

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Meditaranien Coast of Egypt
Apart from the Nile Valley, the majority of Egypt's landscape is desert, with a few oases scattered about. Winds create prolific sand dunes that peak at more than 100 feet (30 m) high. Egypt includes parts of the Sahara Desert and of the Libyan Desert.

By Peter Prokosch

Desert in Northern Egypt
Apart from the Nile Valley, the majority of Egypt's landscape is desert, with a few oases scattered about. Winds create prolific sand dunes that peak at more than 100 feet (30 m) high. Egypt includes parts of the Sahara Desert and of the Libyan Desert.

By Peter Prokosch

By Peter Prokosch

Lake Nasser, Egypt, February 2013
The Aswan High Dam, built in the 1960s, created major change in one of the world’s largest and most famous rivers. The dam stopped the annual flooding that pro- vided new fertile soil each year, the basis for agriculture in ancient Egypt, the world’s longest existing civilization. The decrease i ...

By Peter Prokosch

Road through the Egyptian Desert, near Lake Nasser
Egypt's aridity and shortage of arable land are critical issues. Egypt is 97% desert and is therefore dependent on the Nile River for its existence. Only 5% of the land area in Egypt is actually occupied and less than 4% of the land is suitable for agriculture. Since such a small percentage of l ...

By Peter Prokosch

Irrigation plots between Lake Nasser and Toshka Lakes, Egypt
Egypt's aridity and shortage of arable land are critical issues. Egypt is 97% desert and is therefore dependent on the Nile River for its existence. Only 5% of the land area in Egypt is actually occupied and less than 4% of the land is suitable for agriculture. Since such a small percentage of l ...

By Peter Prokosch

By Peter Prokosch

Toshka Lakes, Southern Egypt, February 2013
In Egypt, some of the water from Lake Nassar, the great reservoir formed by the Aswan High Dam on the Nile, is being pumped 320 kilometres northwest out of the Nile Valley into natural geological depressions in the Great Desert. There the water forms new lakes. The new lake system is endorheic, ...

By Peter Prokosch

By Peter Prokosch

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