The Daily Climate

Saudi Arabia determined to protect, preserve its vegetation cover

The Saudi government is determined to curb activities that threaten the environment to protect its vegetation cover, reduce desertification, combat climate change and improve quality of life and protect the planet for future generations.

Solutions

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Saudi Arabia ‘leading the way’ in climate change fight

Saudi Arabia will be doing more than many Western countries to tackle climate change by the end of the decade, Prince Abdul Aziz bin Salman, the Kingdom's energy minister, told a panel of energy leaders at the Future Investment Initiative forum in Riyadh.

Politics

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Ranvir Nayar: Politicians taking easy way out of recession will cost planet

Having anyone other than Trump in the White House would see a significant alteration, if not total reversal, of his environmental policies.

Impacts

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Mumbai must face up to climate change’s existential threat

As early as the year 2050, great chunks of Mumbai could be permanently underwater, according to a 2019 report by the US-based climate science group Climate Central. All those people now living on the Mumbai coastline would have to find another place to live.

Causes

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Marine ecosystems endangered by tanker sabotage in the Gulf

Sabotage attacks targeting four oil tankers off the coast of the UAE's Fujairah port earlier this month prompted an immediate concern for environmentalists — the damage to marine ecosystems.

Impacts

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The signs of climate change in the Middle East

In 2018, the Emirates Wildlife Society and World Wide Fund for Nature warned of significantly hotter summers, with increased sandstorms.

ORIGINAL REPORTING

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Saudi Arabia determined to protect, preserve its vegetation cover

Saudi Arabia ‘leading the way’ in climate change fight

Ranvir Nayar: Politicians taking easy way out of recession will cost planet

Mumbai must face up to climate change’s existential threat

Marine ecosystems endangered by tanker sabotage in the Gulf

The signs of climate change in the Middle East

How a declaration of ancestral wisdom is changing law, science and our understanding of the world

Podcast: Will coral reefs be gone by 2050?

Climate change in the Arctic: How melting ice is causing Greenland to ‘shrink’

New EPA proposal aims to strike down landmark climate "endangerment finding"

Wildfire burns historic Grand Canyon lodge as toxic gas leak complicates response

Trump administration redirects clean energy funds in defiance of Congress

FEMA cuts disaster aid, leaving states fending for themselves

US Energy Department's $8B kill list hits major grid projects