Global Electricity Review 2025
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Saudi Arabia accused of trying to wreck Paris climate deal
Saudi Arabia stood accused on Tuesday of trying to wreck the Paris climate summit in order to protect its future as one of the world’s largest oil producers. As the talks entered the home stretch, developing
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French negotiators furiously work the backrooms to secure a climate deal
French diplomacy is fighting 23 years of entrenched positions in international climate talks as backroom negotiations continue with the aim of pushing through a draft agreement by Wednesday. In public,
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Saudi Arabia and Qatar hit by heavy rain and flooding
At least one person died as unrelenting rainfall battered the Arabian Peninsula. Schools were shut in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh and Qatar on 25 November as rain continued to fall. Qatar's meteorology
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Saudi Arabia presents climate pledge ahead of Paris summit
Stockholm: Saudi Arabia, whose oil-fueled economy could suffer from global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, today submitted a climate action pledge to the United Nations. Though thin on commitments,
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Environment ministry warns of dangerously high pollution levels around Israel
High levels of air pollution engulfed the entire country Tuesday evening as a strong southeasterly wind flow caused a dust transport to Israel from Saudi Arabia and Jordan. With the dust levels expected
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Flash floods in northern region kill 6
JEDDAH: Six people were killed in heavy floods that hit the northern regions of the country on Tuesday, according to reports. Among the dead were a mother and her two children, who drowned in Shuaib Valley,
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Too hot to live in the Gulf? Don’t be so sure
ABU DHABI // Scientists say that there is significant disagreement about how climate change will affect the Gulf region, after one published study raised fears about high temperatures and humidity at the
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Future temperature in southwest Asia projected to exceed a threshold for human adaptability
A human body may be able to adapt to extremes of dry-bulb temperature (commonly referred to as simply temperature) through perspiration and associated evaporative cooling provided that the wet-bulb temperature
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Ottoman infrastructures of the Saudi hydro-state: The technopolitics of pilgrimage and potable water in the Hijaz
The provisioning of potable water was a microcosm of the Ottoman state's incomplete projects of technopolitical modernization on the Arab frontier. Water questions sat at the intersection between international
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Saudi Arabia sees Mers deaths surge
Microscope image showing the spherical particles of Mers-CoV within the cytoplasm of an infected cell Image caption This image shows spherical virus particles within the cytoplasm of an infected cell