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In the 1990s, the UAE introduced a rain enhancement methodology called cloud seeding. Cloud seeding is the process of increasing the amount of rain produced from the clouds above, which is designed to improve water shortage issues in arid regions around the emirate. By the early 2000s, Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Na...

Experts told representatives Wednesday that supporting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to improve weather models and predictions is crucial to saving lives and lowering recovery costs. The U.S. was hit by 28 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in 2023, making the costs related to helping communities recover from natural disasters the highest...

When crises like war or natural disasters strike, science is often held up as a solution. But science and scientists are vulnerable to crises too, and – according to a new report – scientific institutions need to be better prepared. The report has been produced by the Centre for Science Futures, a think tank run […]

A year on from the devastation, questions remain about the pace of reconstruction amid the rubbleDays before the anniversary of twin earthquakes that devastated swaths of Turkey’s south-east on 6 February 2023, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan returned to Hatay province, the area worst hit by the destruction that killed at least 55,000 in Turkey and Syria. Standing on stage in a sports stadium on the...

Less well-off residents in the southern city of Antakya feel left out of the city’s rebuilding efforts• Read more: A year in the aftermath of Turkey’s earthquake – a photo essayRows of bright white marble gravestones dot a hillside on the outskirts of Antakya, some bearing the words “martyr of the earthquake”. The final resting place for the city’s dead will soon be overshadowed...

Two fissures formed near Grindavík on Sunday after increase in seismic activity prompted authorities to evacuate communityWatch footage from Iceland yesterday, as buildings were seen on fire in Fagradalsfjall, near Grindavík, after a volcano erupted for the second time in less than a month.Geophysicist Magnús Tumi Guðmundsson told Iceland’s national broadcaster RÚV that that it seems that the southern fissure, which was closest to...

Seismic activity intensified overnight near Grindavík, the fifth eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula in two yearsHouses have caught fire in the fishing town of Grindavík in south-west Iceland after a volcano erupted for the second time in less than a month.Two fissures formed near the town on Sunday after an increase in seismic activity that prompted authorities to evacuate the community the day before....

On recent floods in Victoria and Queensland, Albanese said Australian defence force was a vital asset but that future recovery mitigation may need a re-thinkGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese and the Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, say a re-think of disaster recovery and flood mitigation may be needed due to climate change, with at least 26...

Boy, five, among 126 people dead, after boiling water spilled on him during Monday’s 7.6 magnitude quakeA woman in her 90s has been pulled alive from a collapsed house in western Japan, 124 hours after a major earthquake hit the region, killing at least 126 people, toppling buildings and setting off landslides.The woman in Suzu city, Ishikawa prefecture, survived for more than five days...