Why Climate Visa Lottery Schemes Are Not the Answer
In July 2025, an astonishing 8,750 people of Tuvalu’s approximately 9,470 residents registered for a visa to Australia through the Falepili Mobility Pathway, a “climate visa” born out of the ...
Tag: Climate Change
Pakistan Grapples Again With Deadly Flash Floods
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Flash floods in northern Pakistan kill nearly 400 people, the Trump administration calls off trade talks with India and deals ...
Anish Kapoor and Climate Activists Take Over Gas Rig with “BUTCHERED”
Summary Climate activists from Greenpeace installed Anish Kapoor’s “BUTCHERED” on a Shell gas rig in the North Sea The piece references the violence, loss and destruction wrought on by titanic ...
Iran’s Taps Are Nearly Empty
Iran’s environmental collapse is no longer the slowly worsening problem that leaders ignored for decades. It’s here, it’s accelerating, and it’s threatening the very survival of the country. This summer’s ...
How Trump Lost the War on Climate—to China
In April 2024, U.S. President Donald Trump convened a group of oil and gas executives at Mar‑a‑Lago. According to multiple accounts, he offered them what he called “a deal”: donate ...
Devastating Floods Highlight Beijing’s Water Problems
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: Floods prompt mass evacuations in Beijing, a viral video of bullying sparks protests, and another trade deadline looms over the United ...
Trump Is Making Climate Change Denialism Federal Policy
Even as the world reels from the hottest year ever recorded, the Trump administration is taking unprecedented steps to make climate change denialism the foundation of its federal policy. There ...
Can the Vulnerable Seychelles Sustain Another Resort?
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: Environmentalists protest a resort project in the Seychelles, Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces name a rival government, and Nigeria wins the ...
EPA chief Lee Zeldin to repeal ‘holy grail’ Obama-era emissions finding that hiked energy costs for years
WASHINGTON — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is moving to repeal an Obama-era emissions finding he once dubbed the “holy grail of the climate change religion” that underpinned $1 ...
This Entire Country Has To Be Evacuated Because of Climate Change
If estimates are correct, by 2050, the gorgeous Pacific island nation of Tuvalu will be the first country on Earth to be consumed by rising sea levels caused by climate ...
