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 ...

Cloud seeding is a process of injecting chemical substances into clouds to trigger artificial rain. The process is gaining popularity as a means of ending drought, pollution, and water shortages.

Some years ago, I found myself making my way up the narrow stairs of a Learjet on a sultry runway in a deserted airport near the South Africa-Mozambique border. The humidity was there to taste – the ...