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## Ciara Nugent


Ciara Nugent is a staff writer for TIME, based in London. She covers how climate change is reshaping our built and natural environments, as well as regional news from Latin America.


![Ciara Nugent](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6bacae1033cc1d9c/698a191fd075339b2ce6b945/TIME_Staff-Portraits_Ciara-Nugent_209_F1.jpg?branch=production&width=96&quality=75&auto=webp)

## Ciara Nugent


Articles 368Collections 31

* ![Forest City, Malaysia 2](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68e1b4406053e2bd/698a3cc1b3fce363a50ca734/ForestCity1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
May 10, 2023  
### [The Messy Reality of Cities Touting Climate-Friendly Utopias](https://time.com/6278511/green-new-cities-climate/)  
Ostensibly hyper-sustainable "eco-cities" are popping up around the world. Environmentalists say the...  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![Chile Mines Lithium From Salt Flats Of Atacama Desert](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3888d54e4b95e566/698a3c53096a94dbeb6adb1e/Lithium-Mines.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 28, 2023  
### [What Would Happen if South America Formed an OPEC for Lithium](https://time.com/6275197/south-america-lithium-opec/)  
Leaders in South America hope the crucial energy transition mineral can deliver a big pay day.  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![Los Angeles Air Pollution During Wildfire](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt53e6d39fa7904d5e/698a3c2486f68e6db46f25a8/Wildfire-air-quality.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 20, 2023  
### [Climate Change Hurts U.S. Progress on Air Pollution](https://time.com/6273348/air-pollution-climate-change/)  
Pollution is spiking to dangerous levels more often as the U.S. warms  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![Firefighters pour water on an industrial fire in Richmond, Ind., on April 13, 2023.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt241fd1624fb6a128/698a3bfc457a526963d677e9/indiana-recycling-fire-01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 13, 2023  
### [Why Recycling Plants Keep Catching on Fire](https://time.com/6271576/recycling-plant-fire-indiana/)  
The plants recycling our waste are facing a cocktail of new combustion risks  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![Luxury Home With Swimming Pool](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd388c5597b95a34b/698a3be6db298736de268e44/LuxuryHomePool.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 11, 2023  
### [Rich People Are Threatening Cities' Water Supplies](https://time.com/6270486/wealth-impact-urban-water-inequality/)  
A new study lays the blame for rising urban water crises on city elites—not climate change  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)  
* ![Blue-breasted kingfisher](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbc4d2ea7010cdb2c/698a3b5d16d884979cc3ba94/GettyImages-1171180956.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Mar 23, 2023  
### [Where Mining and Energy Projects Will Hurt Wildlife the Most](https://time.com/6265474/energy-mining-biodiversity-hotspots/)  
A new study shows how mining, oil and gas extraction, and power plants will proliferate across cruci...  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![Xi Jinping Visits Vladimir Putin in Moscow](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt85c02f5cca865f32/698a3b56096a9423256ad995/Putin-Xi.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Mar 22, 2023  
### [Russia Wants a Committed Fossil Fuel Relationship. China Has Cold Feet](https://time.com/6265109/russia-china-fossil-fuels-siberia-2/)  
If approved, the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline would help Russia permanently reorient its gas industry...  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![Lynetteholm artificial island Copenhagen](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt42529a718093b5d7/698a3b4a22fb85180ee2e810/Lynetteholm_Januar-2023-5-1200px.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Mar 22, 2023  
### [Why Climate Activists Want to Stop Denmark's New Island-City](https://time.com/6264861/copenhagen-lynetteholm-artificial-island-climate-change/)  
Activists say Copenhagen's new artificial island-city of Lynetteholm could kill marine life across t...  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![Greta-Norway-protest](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaeda9c4bf8dbecb8/698a3ac14ee262869931b265/Greta-Norway.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 28, 2023  
### [Why Climate Activists are Protesting Wind Farms](https://time.com/6259144/greta-thunberg-norway-protests-climate-activists/)  
A global backlash against clean energy on Indigenous land is complicating the energy transition  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![Kyiv Saw Multiple Missile Attacks By Russia](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5a147d44794fbb4a/698a3a8b096a94e2906ad846/ukraine-one-year-war-climate-emissions-impact.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 22, 2023  
### [The Unexpected Climate Impact of Russia's War in Ukraine](https://time.com/6257491/russia-ukraine-war-climate-impact/)  
By most measures, Russia's year-long war in Ukraine has been an unremitting tragedy. For the climate...  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)  
* ![oak tree](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt043672d3f733595e/698a3a5ce6e84a5ec52afd4a/Oak-tree.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 15, 2023  
### [Plants Are Struggling To Find New Homes To Escape Climate Change](https://time.com/6255709/plant-migration-climate-change/)  
Plants are searching out cooler places to grow in North America. But studies suggest they are strugg...  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![Menai Bridge](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt17124c5b13b22c43/698a3a634ee262275431b1c4/Menai-Bridge.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 15, 2023  
### [Why One Country Wants to Stop Building Roads to Fight Climate Change](https://time.com/6255769/wales-roads-building-projects-climate-change/)  
The Welsh government has decided that building new roads would encourage more car use—hurting its em...  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![Brazilian aircraft carrier Sao Paulo \(A12\) seen in Rio de Janeiro on Aug. 11, 2016.  ](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1853e75bda7c3bd8/698a39f416d8840602c3b833/aircraft-carrier-sao-paulo-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 31, 2023  
### [Brazil's Controversial Plan to Sink a 34,000-Ton Ship at Sea](https://time.com/6251526/brazil-abandoned-ship-environmental-disaster/)  
Environmentalists say the Brazilian navy's plan to abandon a massive aircraft carrier is a disaster ...  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![Elderly person Japan heat](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt53483b181f13d7dc/698a39c647ca3893193ba736/Japan-old-heat.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 26, 2023  
### [Aging Populations Can Be Good for the Climate](https://time.com/6250060/aging-population-climate-change-japan/)  
Rich countries don't want their populations to shrink. But that could be good for the planet.  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)
* ![Arizona real estate Tuscon](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfd3b9d62fba5ff1e/698a399516d8841765c3b790/Arizona-real-estate.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 20, 2023  
### [Arizona's Dilemma: Import Water or End its Housing Boom](https://time.com/6248517/arizona-growing-population-drought-housing/)  
The drama of a suburb cut off from water in Arizona forces an existential question for the state's r...  
[CLIMATE](/section/climate/)

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