Abu Dhabi will begin to pay grants of up to around $30,000 per year to farmers to refrain from water-intensive cultivation in the Gulf emirate, its food control authority said on Monday.

The conditions tied to the disbursal of government assistance will raise the bar on farming practices in the emirate in terms of profitability and environmental soundness, said Mohamed Jalal al-Reyaysa, head of

Scientists claim to have achieved a breakthrough by generating a series of downpours in the deserts of the United Arab Emirates using a new tech nology which is designed to control the weather.

A team, employed by the ruler of Abu Dhabi and Pres ident of the UAE, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed A Nahyan, has created some 50 rainstorms in 2010 in the emirate's eastern Al Ain region -most of the storms

Indo-UAE friendship got a new colour today with Indian President Pratibha Devisingh Patil urging industrialists from the two countries to partner in the initiative to

Twenty years ago, divers in Dubai could swim through coral gardens teeming with brightly-colored fish and sea turtles. Today, says marine biologist Tom Goreau, dead reefs stand like gravestones for an underwater ghost town.