The United Arab Emirates is looking into building an “artificial mountain” to help increase rainfall in the desert country, and has hired scientists from the Colorado-basedNational Center for Atmospheric Research to decide whether or not the project is feasible.
Monday morning, Arabian Business reported that the UAE is looking into literally constructing a mountain in the country in order to help increase cloud cover which could, in theory, lead to more rainfall. A scientist at the NCAR confirmed to me that he is working on the project but said he couldn’t talk more about it until he had results to publish.

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