Natural resources are a funny thing in the Middle East; some states in the region suffer from a general scarcity of water while others have abundant sources of water. The presence of oil has brought…

In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), climate change is an especially urgent issue, particularly as it has already triggered devastating weather events, including prolonged droughts, flash…

Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese continued staging their extraordinary revolt against their politicians after Prime Minister Saad Hariri proposed a list of reforms approved by his cabinet on Monday…

As world leaders gathered on Monday for the Climate Action Summit at theUN General Assembly, it is sadly clear that the prospect of rising global temperatures and sea levels has failed to generate…

The attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure, which targeted what one analyst called the ”Achilles heel of the world economy”, was a direct attack on the heart of the Saudi economy and the global…

The first week in September marked a new phase in the ongoing confrontation between Tehran and the West. While Israel uncovered a new Iranian base in Syria of unprecedented size, President Trump…

The past two weeks have been some of the most tumultuous weeks for Brexit after British Prime Minister, Boris, Johnson, made the decision to suspend Parliament for a month starting next week - a move…

The American sanctions campaign continues to have devastating effects on Iranian commerce. Europe and India are pivoting to alternate supplies of oil and cutting their own exports to Iran. Tehran now…

Inthe United StatesandEurope, junk food sales have precipitously declined since the late 1990s. Analysts have put the change up to greater health consciousness, increasing labor costs, decreasing…

It’s not just humans who track long-term trends in the weather. The history of our planet’s climate is recorded by nature herself — written in tree rings and arctic ices, corals and deep ocean…