For the first time, the United Nations Climate Change Conference is being held in an Amazonian city. Can its position at the heart of the climate crisis lead to tangible action?

The US president hasn't invested enough political capital in the painstaking details of peacemaking. Instead, he has focused on short-term truces he can boast about in his quest for a Nobel prize.

The acclaimed British author tells Al Majalla about how he recreated the most bitter winter in living memory, and the way it shaped modernity

Global investment in clean energy technologies reached nearly $2tn in 2024, signalling the strongest momentum yet toward a low-carbon future. Yet, despite this record spending, experts warn it…

The US president has been on a mission to secure new supply chains—and counter China's grip

A US military intervention would be a disaster in an already divided country

Digital art is rewriting the rules of the field, revising the meaning of authenticity, and recalibrating the boundary between virtual and physical. Have we lost something here?

Al Majalla examines key developments in the US and across the globe less than a year into Trump's second presidential term

The World Trade Organisation has effectively ceased to function, and many are of the view that the global trading system, as we know it, is dead

The US president dislikes multilateralism and deprioritises values-based alliances, instead preferring to do bilateral business with dealmakers, leaving the postwar order in tatters