--- description: 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. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production ---  # Ciara Nugent  ## Ciara Nugent Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close 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 Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  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/) *  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/) *  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/) *  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/) *  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/) *  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/) *  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/) *  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/) *  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/) *  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/) *  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/) *  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/) *  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/) *  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/) *  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... 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