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Is artificial rain the answer to Delhi’s air crisis?
1 month ago

Is artificial rain the answer to Delhi’s air crisis?

Firstpost  

Delhi’s air quality remained in the ‘severe’ category for a third straight day on Wednesday. As the city battles toxic pollution, can artificial rain, or cloud seeding, improve the situation? Sachchida Nand Tripathi, Dean of Kotak School of Sustainability at IIT Kanpur, told NDTV that tackling air pollution with artificial rain will not be easy. According to IIT Kanpur’s Manindra …

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Artificial Rain To Fight Winter Air Pollution: Delhi Seeks Urgent Meeting With Centre to Evaluate Cloud Seeding
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Artificial Rain To Fight Winter Air Pollution: Delhi Seeks Urgent Meeting With Centre to Evaluate Cloud Seeding

News 18  

Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Friday wrote to Bhupender Yadav, Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, to convene an urgent meeting with stakeholders to evaluate cloud seeding to combat Delhi’s winter air pollution and secure necessary permissions. On Wednesday, News18 had reported that the Delhi government has started work on the ‘Winter Action Plan’ for the national capital …

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After devastating rainfall in UAE and Oman, experts urge integration of climate resilience in urban development plans
7 months, 3 weeks ago

After devastating rainfall in UAE and Oman, experts urge integration of climate resilience in urban development plans

Hindustan Times  

In the aftermath of the record-breaking rainfall in the UAE and Oman, which led to severe impacts on its infrastructure, experts are calling for an urgent revision of urban development and emergency preparedness plans to integrate considerations for extreme weather events, which are quickly becoming more frequent and severe due to the impacts of climate change. Urban planning and infrastructure …

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NASA’s Landsat 9 satellite captures before and after pics of Dubai floods from space
8 months ago

NASA’s Landsat 9 satellite captures before and after pics of Dubai floods from space

Hindustan Times  

NASA recently shared striking before and after images of Dubai’s recent floods, caused by torrential rainfall that hit the United Arab Emirates last week. Captured by NASA’s Landsat 9 satellite on April 19, these images depict vast pools of floodwater contrasting sharply with the region’s typically dry terrain. Another picture taken from space shows flooded areas in Abu Dhabi, the …

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What caused the storm that led to Dubai floods? | Explained
8 months, 1 week ago

What caused the storm that led to Dubai floods? | Explained

The Hindu  

A storm hit the United Arab Emirates and Oman this week bringing record rainfall that flooded highways, inundated houses, grid-locked traffic and trapped people in their homes. The "abnormal phenomenon" was not unexpected in April as when the season changes the pressure changes rapidly, she said, adding that climate change also likely contributed to the storm. Climate scientists say that …

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Dubai rain: What is cloud seeding and why does UAE need it? Explained
8 months, 1 week ago

Dubai rain: What is cloud seeding and why does UAE need it? Explained

Hindustan Times  

Heavy rainfall on Tuesday brought Dubai to a standstill. In a video shared by popular YouTuber Nas Daily last year, he gave people an insight into how this UAE city creates rain for itself. In the video, Nas Daily first explains how Dubai is a "very dry" city with less rain. Watch the video shared by Nas Daily here: According …

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Dubai Floods Due to Artificial Rain or Climate Change? What is UAE's Cloud Seeding Programme?
8 months, 1 week ago

Dubai Floods Due to Artificial Rain or Climate Change? What is UAE's Cloud Seeding Programme?

News 18  

The desert city of Dubai was soaked in 25 cm of rain in just 24 hours. Climatologist Friederike Otto said it is highly likely that the “deadly and destructive rain in Oman and Dubai was made heavier by human-caused climate change,” as quoted by news agency AFP. The Gulf state’s National Center of Meteorology dispatched seeding planes from Al Ain …

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Pakistan uses artificial rain for the first time to fight pollution
1 year ago

Pakistan uses artificial rain for the first time to fight pollution

Al Jazeera  

Cloud seeding was used to counter the hazardous smog in the megacity of Lahore, one of the world’s most polluted cities. Artificial rain has been used for the first time in Pakistan in a bid to combat hazardous levels of pollution in the megacity of Lahore, says the provincial government. “It drizzled in at least 10 areas of Lahore,” caretaker …

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