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Environment

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

maghreb

Precious commodity. People cool off at a water fountain on a hot day in Tunis. (Reuters)

Record heatwave points to looming climate crisis for Maghreb

conservation

A farmer drives a tractor through smoke from burning rice straw in preparation for the next harvest, at a paddy field in the beginning of the agricultural road leading to Cairo November 1, 2014. (Reuters)

Green initiatives in MENA make a change but long road ahead

Water

Cleaning water, saving lives. An engineer fills a flask with recycled water at an advanced water purification facility. (AP)

Water purification technology: a needed investment for MENA countries