Countries are increasingly embracing the controversial practice of cloud seeding as global water demand continues to rise. Iran recently sprayed clouds with chemicals as part of a push to boost ...

Even if you have never been to a desert, you would have seen it on screens, how rain bursts despite arid desert sun but in the UAE, rain does not just happen by chance. Behind the scenes, scientists ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm an American writer working in fiction and nonfiction. Temperatures in Dubai have regularly surpassed 120 degrees Fahrenheit ...

In the skies over Al Ain, in the United Arab Emirates, pilot Mark Newman waits for the signal. When it comes, he flicks a few silver switches on a panel by his leg, twists two black dials, then ...