Environment
The United Arab Emirates Needs More Rain, So It's Building a Mountain
With just a few inches of rainfall a year, the country is taking matters into its own hands.
The United Arab Emirates wants to make it rain—literally—and it has an ambitious plan to do that: build a mountain.
Among other approaches that the UAE is considering to increase rainfall, the country has given $400,000 to the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), a U.S.-based research institute sponsored by the National Science Foundation, to study how building a man-made mountain could affect the weather. According to the Dubai-based business news site Arabian Business, the researchers are currently in the “detailed modeling study” phase of the project.