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At COP16, Saudi Arabia Bets On Climate Tech To Make Deserts Bloom
Saudi Arabia is investing in green innovation to transform its deserts, but accusations of greenwashing highlight the challenge of turning ambitious projects into climate solutions.
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Failed Climate Talks, Middle East Wars: 5 Takeaways From G20 Summit In Brazil
G20 leaders met in Rio de Janeiro on Monday for talks on climate change, ongoing wars in Ukraine, Gaza and Lebanon, and more.
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"Violent Clouds": 4 Dead, 14 Missing After Heavy Flooding Morocco
Moroccan authorities on Sunday said four people died and 14 were missing in flooding caused by an "exceptional" climate phenomenon in southern areas.
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Blinken To Return To Israel, West Bank As Truce Extended
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will pay a new crisis visit to the Middle East this week and also attend the UN climate summit in Dubai, a senior US official said Monday.
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Where Summer Heat Hits Hard: Middle East And North Africa
Climate change has impacted the Middle East and North Africa where summer is already very hot. Many in Iraq, Syria, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia still labour in the heat.
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Middle East Heating Nearly Twice As Fast As Global Average: Report
The Middle East is heating at nearly twice the global average, threatening potentially devastating impacts on its people and economies, a new climate study shows.
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Mideast Sandstorms Delay Flights, Close Schools, Harm Health
Sandstorms across the Middle East have delayed flights, closed schools and hospitalised thousands -- a phenomenon experts say could worsen as climate change warps regional weather patterns.
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Donald Trump To Meet Pope May 24 In Potentially Awkward Encounter
U.S. President Donald Trump will meet Pope Francis on May 24, the Vatican said on Thursday, a potentially awkward encounter given their diametrically opposing positions on immigration, refugees and climate change.
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An Epic Middle East Heat Wave Could Be Global Warming's Hellish Curtain-Raiser
Record-shattering temperatures this summer have scorched countries from Morocco to Saudi Arabia and beyond, as climate experts warn that the severe weather could be a harbinger of worse to come.
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John Kerry calls climate change 'weapon of mass destruction'
US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Indonesians on Sunday that man-made climate change could threaten their entire way of life, deriding those who doubted the existence of "perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction".
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At COP16, Saudi Arabia Bets On Climate Tech To Make Deserts Bloom
Saudi Arabia is investing in green innovation to transform its deserts, but accusations of greenwashing highlight the challenge of turning ambitious projects into climate solutions.
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Failed Climate Talks, Middle East Wars: 5 Takeaways From G20 Summit In Brazil
G20 leaders met in Rio de Janeiro on Monday for talks on climate change, ongoing wars in Ukraine, Gaza and Lebanon, and more.
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"Violent Clouds": 4 Dead, 14 Missing After Heavy Flooding Morocco
Moroccan authorities on Sunday said four people died and 14 were missing in flooding caused by an "exceptional" climate phenomenon in southern areas.
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Blinken To Return To Israel, West Bank As Truce Extended
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will pay a new crisis visit to the Middle East this week and also attend the UN climate summit in Dubai, a senior US official said Monday.
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Where Summer Heat Hits Hard: Middle East And North Africa
Climate change has impacted the Middle East and North Africa where summer is already very hot. Many in Iraq, Syria, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia still labour in the heat.
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Middle East Heating Nearly Twice As Fast As Global Average: Report
The Middle East is heating at nearly twice the global average, threatening potentially devastating impacts on its people and economies, a new climate study shows.
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Mideast Sandstorms Delay Flights, Close Schools, Harm Health
Sandstorms across the Middle East have delayed flights, closed schools and hospitalised thousands -- a phenomenon experts say could worsen as climate change warps regional weather patterns.
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Donald Trump To Meet Pope May 24 In Potentially Awkward Encounter
U.S. President Donald Trump will meet Pope Francis on May 24, the Vatican said on Thursday, a potentially awkward encounter given their diametrically opposing positions on immigration, refugees and climate change.
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An Epic Middle East Heat Wave Could Be Global Warming's Hellish Curtain-Raiser
Record-shattering temperatures this summer have scorched countries from Morocco to Saudi Arabia and beyond, as climate experts warn that the severe weather could be a harbinger of worse to come.
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John Kerry calls climate change 'weapon of mass destruction'
US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Indonesians on Sunday that man-made climate change could threaten their entire way of life, deriding those who doubted the existence of "perhaps the world's most fearsome weapon of mass destruction".
