Ali and Amira Sajwani want to revive Dubai’s failed World Islands project. They’re planning to build 24 mansions, a beach club, and two helipads. The siblings’ father, Hussain Sajwani, is a billionaire who’s close to Donald Trump. The children of a billionaire Dubai property developer have come up with a plan to revive the emirate’s […]
Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, will move its operations to the city-state’s second, sprawling airfield “within the next 10 years” in a project worth nearly £28 billion, its ruler has said. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s announcement on Sunday marks the latest chapter in the rebound of its long-haul carrier […]
The record-breaking rain that fell over the United Arab Emirates and Oman this month, triggering deadly floods and chaos, was driven partly by the climate crisis, according to a scientific analysis published Thursday, which pointed directly at humans burning fossil fuels. A team of 21 scientists and researchers, under the World Weather Attribution initiative, found […]
Dubai’s cloud-seeding planes were in the air before record flooding. – Photo: Andrea DiCenzo (Getty Images) Scientists are developing all kinds of wild tech to try and change our climate, including carbon capture machines to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere and special chemicals that can create rain clouds in places susceptible to drought. Now, […]
With cloud seeding, it may rain, but it doesn’t really pour or flood — at least nothing like what drenched the United Arab Emirates and paralyzed Dubai, meteorologists said. Cloud seeding, although decades old, is still controversial in the weather community, mostly because it has been hard to prove that it does very much. No […]
With cloud seeding, it may rain, but it doesn’t really pour or flood — at least nothing like what drenched the United Arab Emirates and paralyzed Dubai, meteorologists said. Cloud seeding, although decades old, is still controversial in the weather community, mostly because it has been hard to prove that it does very much. No […]