The River Nile is contaminated with microplastics. A basket of tilapia at a market in Khartoum. Dalia Saad, Author provided (no reuse). We dissected the fish to remove their digestive tracts.

For 17 years, Mohamed Nasar has supported his family of five by fishing in the Nile River near the banks of the tiny island of Al-Qursaya close to central Cairo.

Fishermen fish at a waterfall in the Nile River in Qalyubia Governorate, Egypt, on July 6, 2024. Hundreds of amateur and professional fishermen gathered here to fish and escape the heat during hot ...

Sky News has carried out the first ever scientific research into plastic pollution in the River Nile - and discovered that a staggering three-quarters of the fish analysed contained microplastics.

Mohamed has raised four children between two boats, each no more than 12 feet long. Born in a fishing village in Menoufia in the Nile Delta, she moved to Cairo when she was 19 to get married, to a ...

Omdurman, Sudan – Al-Nimeiry Musa Mohammad has spent 25 years fishing on the Nile River and he has never been so worried about the future. Catches are dwindling and more fishermen are seeking ...

River Nile’s innovative fish farms feed millions Tuesday, November 03, 2009 — updated on December 24, 2020 - 6 min read. Tilapia being sold at an open-air market in Nairobi.

The Nile is only slightly longer than the Amazon River, for example, and in 2007 a team of Brazilian scientists announced they had remeasured the Amazon and found it to be 6,800 km (4,225 miles ...

Sky News has carried out the first ever scientific research into plastic pollution in the River Nile - and discovered that a staggering three-quarters of the fish analysed contained microplastics.

Analysis - The Nile is one of the world's most famous rivers. It's also Africa's most important freshwater system. About 300 million people live in the 11 countries it flows through. Many rely on ...