We are ‘not too late’ to fix climate change, says Nobel Prize scientist who extracted water from the desert air

The era of “ global boiling ” is here, with United Nations scientists warning that drastic steps are needed to prevent a climate change catastrophe. But reversing the terrifying trend isn’t a lost cause, according to a Nobel Prize scientist Prof. Omar M. Yaghi.

“We’re not too late,” the UC Berkeley professor, known as the inventor of reticular chemistry, said at Fortune’s Global Forum in Riyadh. “I think that once society decides that there’s a problem, we will get to work and those problems can be solved.”

This year, Yaghi became the first Saudi national to receive the Nobel Prize in chemistry.

The Jordanian-American, who also holds dual U.S. citizenship, won the 2025 prize together with Susumu Kitagawa and Richard Robson for their groundbreaking discoveries on metal-organic fram