Climate Change

US President Donald Trump speaks alongside US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin during an event to announce a rollback of the 2009 Endangerment Finding in the Roosevelt Room at the White House
Donald Trump
MENA
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Trump's repeal of climate rule opens 'new front' for litigation

Now that the EPA has abandoned that regulatory effort, the legal shield created by the 2011 decision will likely unravel, legal experts said

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
13 February, 2026
Turkey drought [Getty]
Turkey
MENA
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Turkey: Ankara city hall says water cuts due to 'record drought'

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
10 January, 2026
A Greenpeace activist holds a banner showing a wind turbine and that reads: "Future vs. Trump" as the same image is projected on the facade of the U.S. Embassy to protest against the withdrawal of the United States by newly-inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump from the Paris Agreement on January 21, 2025 in Berlin, Germany.
Donald Trump
Environment
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Trump withdraws US from key climate treaty, deepening pullback

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
08 January, 2026
Iraq sandstorm [Getty]
Iraq
Environment
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Iraqis cover soil with clay, plant seeds to curb sandstorms

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
28 December, 2025
Vehicles drive on a flooded road during heavy rain in the Gulf Emirate of Dubai
United Arab Emirates
MENA
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Dubai warns residents to stay indoors because of rain

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
18 December, 2025
Ziggurat of Ur is a Neo-Sumerian ziggurat on the site of the ancient city of Ur near Nasiriyah
Iraq
MENA
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Iraq preparing $14.5 million renovation of ancient city of Ur

The New Arab Staff
03 December, 2025
COP30 President Andre Correa do Lago (C) listens to an advisor upon arrival for a plenary session of the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Para state, Brazil on November 21, 2025. (Photo by PABLO PORCIUNCULA/AFP via Getty Images)
COP30
Environment
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COP30 deal under threat as nations clash over fossil fuels

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
21 November, 2025
Displacement And Famine In Drought Hit Somalia
Somalia
Environment
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Extreme drought traps Somalis as government declares emergency

The New Arab (From the Arabic Edition)
20 November, 2025
COP30 [Getty]
COP30
Environment
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COP30 stresses countries' need for resilience to extreme weather

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
11 November, 2025
COP30 must do good, not just avoid harm
COP30
Perspectives

COP30 must do good, not just avoid harm

Eileen Mairena Cunningham

Eileen Mairena Cunningham

11 November, 2025
Afghanistan is one of the country's most at risk of disasters due to climate change
Taliban
World
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Taliban government protests no invitation to UN climate summit

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
10 November, 2025
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the General Plenary Session of Leaders at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, on November 7, 2025. (Photo by COP 30 Press Office / handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)
COP30
Environment
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Earth cannot 'sustain' intensive fossil fuel use, Lula tells COP30

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
07 November, 2025
Iraq's_environmental_collapse
Iraq water scarcity
Environment and Climate
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Desertification threatens Iraq's ancient heartland and heritage

Dana Taib Menmy

Dana Taib Menmy

21 October, 2025
Kurdish members of the Dohuk Antiquities Department work on a grave unearthed on the banks of Mosul Dam on an archaeological site in the Khanke sub-district of Dohuk Governorate
Iraq
Environment
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Ancient tombs unearthed in Iraq due to drought

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
30 August, 2025
A soldier rows a boat across floodwaters at Chak Ali Sher village in Wazirabad district
Pakistan floods
Environment
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Pakistan evacuates a million after worst floods in decades

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
29 August, 2025
Algeria continues battle against wildfires
Maghreb
MENA
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Why are wildfires burning through the Maghreb?

Basma El Atti
22 August, 2025
Flood survivors gather near the remains of damaged houses surrounded by heavy rocks in the Buner district of mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
Pakistan
World
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Hopes for survivors wane after Pakistan flooding kills hundreds

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
17 August, 2025
Firefighting efforts continue as flames spread rapidly across a large area after a wildfire broke out in Hama, Syria on August 13, 2025. (Photo by Kenene Hindavi/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Syria
Environment
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Firefighters struggling to battle inferno in northwest Syria

The New Arab Staff
15 August, 2025
Syria agriculture
Climate Change
Environment and Climate
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Syria faces collapse of traditional agriculture as drought rages

Hadia Al Mansour

Hadia Al Mansour

24 July, 2025
ICJ [Getty]
ICJ
Environment
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ICJ rules countries legally obligated to tackle climate change

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
24 July, 2025
Cairo's Ramsis St: the world's most polluted street, Egypt In July, 2002 - Traffic jam at the entrance of Ramsis St.
Egypt
MENA
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Egypt feels the heat from global climate change

Amr Emam
23 July, 2025