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Climate change

An Iraqi man uses an atomiser made available for people outside a shop selling cooling and ventilation products in Baghdad, last July. (AFP)

Experts warn against climate change fallout in Arab world

Red Sea

Locusts are seen in the Menabe region of western Madagascar, March 29, 2013. (Reuters)

Locust outbreak threatens Egypt, Saudi Arabia: UN

Morocco

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Patricia Espinosa and UN Special Envoy for the 2019 climate summit Luis Alfonso de Alba at the COP24 UN Climate Change Conference 2018. (Reuters)

Experts warn of 'existential risk' at climate conference

Climate change

Negotiators at a UN climate summit take photos of snow that fell in Katowice, Poland, on December 11. (AP)

Saudi Arabia wants more study of global warming

Arab world

Vital issue. A farmer drives a tractor through smoke at a paddy field near a road leading to Cairo. (Reuters)

Africa and the Arab world are key to a clean-coal alliance

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Climate change

UN: time running out to avoid climate disaster

Health

A view of Shuaiba oil refinery is seen in Basra, southeast of Baghdad September 21, 2015. (Reuters)

Rising carbon dioxide levels poses added risk to the Middle East

Israel

Water woes. An Israeli farmer checks soil in his field near Kfar Yuval. (AP)

5-year drought raises questions over Israel’s water strategy

Sea

At critical levels. Seagulls search for food near a sewage discharge area next to piles of plastic bottles washed away by the water on the seaside of Ouzai in southern Beirut, on July 19. (AFP)

Sea pollution in Lebanon approaching dangerous levels