Uae floods articles
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Global heating and urbanisation to blame for severity of UAE floods, study finds
World Weather Attribution group says intensified El Niño effects caused torrential rain, but rules out cloud seeding as causeFossil fuels and concrete combined to worsen the “death trap” conditions during recent record flooding in the United Arab Emirates and Oman, a study has found.Scientists from the World Weather Attribution team said downpours in El Niño years such as this one had become 10-40% heavier in the region as a result of human-cased climate disruption, while a lack of natural...
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Dubai flights canceled, schools and offices shut as rain pelts UAE just weeks after deadly floods
By Mostafa Salem, Abbas Al Lawati and Angela Dewan Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesCNN — Emirates was forced to cancel and delay several flights in and
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UAE central bank asks lenders to defer loan repayments for six months to help flood-hit residents
Roughly a year's worth of rain pummeled the Gulf country in a span of just 12 hours between April 16 and 17, destroying businesses, cars and other property.