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Sara Padovan

Global warming is turning sleep into a global health crisis

Warmer nights are messing with our bodies' ability to shed the heat we accumulate during the day. This is having all sorts of effects, none of them good

Alaa Emara 24 August 2026
Al Awir desert farms, Dubai, on 12 January 2021.
 AFP

How El Niño is heightening economic risk in the Gulf

Despite being oceans away from the Pacific, climate change is amplifying the harmful effects of the natural sea-warming phenomenon

Abdulfattah Khattab 04 July 2026
Ewan_White

A global economy in the throes of transformation and uncertainty 

Political uncertainty, technological disruption, and demographic change are reshaping the global economy as shared leadership and strategic consensus erode

Amer Ziab Al-Tamimi 08 February 2026
COP30 President Andre Correa do Lago gestures as the plenary session was interrupted following Colombia's  intervention at the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belém, Pará state, Brazil, on 22 November 2025. PABLO PORCIUNCULA / AFP

COP30: discussions, delayed delivery and disappointment

The leaders of the world's three biggest polluters did not attend, and fossil fuels were not mentioned in the final text. Has COP run its course?

Nazareth Seferian 29 November 2025
Lina Jaradat

COP30 in Brazil: a new test of climate action will

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?

Alaa Emara 13 November 2025
Sara Padovan

It’s time to build a regional climate fund

As global climate finance falters and US support disappears, the MENA region faces a widening funding gap. Now is the time to create a regional climate finance mechanism.

Léa Eid 27 May 2025
A climate change activist takes part in a protest against the impact of US policy on climate change before the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump outside the US embassy in London. Reuters

Where will Trump's war on climate protections take the world?

Picking up where he left off in his first term in office, the US president is machine-gunning the legislation, funding, and personnel aimed at tackling the planet's most existential threat

Alaa Emara 23 March 2025
US Presidential nominee Donald Trump and Republican US Representative from New York, Lee Zeldin, at the Drexelbrook Catering & Event Center on October 29, 2024, in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. CHIP SOMODEVILLA/AFP

Climate change and the next administration

There are obstacles to Donald Trump's attempts to reverse progress

The Economist 16 November 2024

Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason on today's paradigm shift

The award-winning author, documentary-maker, and former presidential candidate talks to Al Majalla about Elon Musk being a 'tragic god' and how our environmental paradigm shift is changing things

Nesrein El-Bakhshawangy 05 October 2024
Diana Estefanía Rubio

Climate change and misinformation top global risks in 2024

What can we expect in 2024? Record global temperatures with increasingly harmful effects, a cost-of-living crisis, and escalating tensions in the Middle East

Al Majalla - London 23 January 2024
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (C), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif posing after signing the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on 7 August, 2026. PAKISTAN PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE / AFP
Politics

Networked Middle East security

22 August 2026

The Iran war exposed the risks of being too closely tied to US military posture, which is why some Gulf states are repositioning themselves not merely as consumers of security but as architects of it

Bilal Saab
Noelia de Alda
Politics

How Gaza turned US public opinion against Israel

30 August 2026

Supporting Israel used to help politicians get elected, but with Americans far more critical of Tel Aviv's influence on US policy, it has now become a liability at the ballot box

Assal Rad
Axel Rangel Garcia
Science & Technology

How QR codes are reshaping the future of commerce

28 August 2026

The barcode has been the language of retail for more than half a century. Now, two-dimensional codes are giving products a new digital identity

Mohammed Mansour
Motorists drive past a billboard in Tehran depicting Trump drowning in the Strait of Hormuz on 24 August 2026. AFP
Politics

The US is learning the wrong lessons in Iran

25 August 2026

Tactical excellence can never salvage strategic incompetence

Bret Devereaux
Axel Rangel Garcia
Culture & Social Affairs

The artist who used land to capture Palestinian identity

27 August 2026

Sliman Mansour, the renowned Palestinian painter who used clay from his land to make his works after deciding to boycott art materials produced by Israel, has died at the age of 79

Farouk Yousif

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