When Laila Mostafa Abdullatif first joined Emirates Nature WWF in 2008, the environmental movement in the UAE was still in its infancy. Now, 16 years later, she leads the organisation as director general, overseeing a mission that’s grown from niche think tank into one of the region’s most influential conservation actors. This year also marks a milestone: […]
Global trade is under strain due to the effects of climate change and a failure to act risks worsening food insecurity, economic instability and humanitarian crises, the UN’s senior climate official has warned. Speaking at the 2025 Nature Summit in Panama City on Tuesday, Simon Stiell used the Panama Canal as a potent example of how climate change has affected trade. Once a symbol […]
Abu Dhabi has unveiled an ambitious plan to plant millions of coral colonies by 2030. The initiative aims to cover more than 900 hectares, making it the world’s largest coral rehabilitation project, according to state news agency Wam. Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed, Ruler’s Representative in Al Dhafra Region and Chairman of the Environment Agency in Abu […]
A drier and warmer start to spring has led to “unusual” wildfires in the UK, and a risk of drought across north western Europe, the continent’s climate service has warned. Most of the region which also encompasses the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany has been put “watch” or “warning” for drought – with some areas being placed on “alert” – by the EU’s climate monitoring service Copernicus, which […]
Manhat, a UAE start-up dedicated to sustainable water and floating farm solutions, has been honoured at Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan, receiving the Best Practices Award. It is one of 25 start-ups from around the world to win the award celebrating endeavours tackling global challenges. The water-technology start-up’s story is being showed in the best practices area of the global exhibition, […]
A team led by researchers at the University of Oxford has created the most complete map of the world’s rivers ever made offering a major leap forward for flood prediction, climate risk planning, and water resource management in a warming world. The new study, published in Water Resources Research, introduces GRIT — a mapping system that […]
With climate change displacing more people within the countries they live, here’s what experts say is needed to support them. Cyclones, floods and other disasters forced people from their homes 45.8 million times last year, official figures show, nearly double the annual average over the past decade. Virtually all of these internal “disaster displacements” were […]
Globally, soils store more than twice as much carbon as the atmosphere. Therefore, carbon uptake and release by soils constitutes a strong regulator of atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2). In the context of the ongoing anthropogenic climate change it is thus important to better understand the sensitivity of soil carbon, which […]
The European Commission plans to support large scale efforts to clean up forever chemicals as part of its upcoming water resilience strategy, acknowledging the widespread threat of water pollution and the need for technological innovation to address it. The European Commission is preparing to support a major clean-up initiative targeting water pollution by so-called “forever […]
A bold vision to connect ancient agriculture with cutting-edge blockchain technology has been unveiled in the Middle East. At an invite only event held at the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the Global Olive Corporation (GOC) revealed its plan to tokenize 100 million olive trees worldwide, starting with a million already planted across Georgia. “This is the […]
