The host of the upcoming COP28 climate summit, the United Arab Emirates, planned to use its role as an opportunity to try to make oil and gas deals with other countries, CBS News partner network BBC ...

The United Arab Emirates and Oman saw record levels of rainfall this week. The UAE, a desert nation, witnessed the heaviest rainfall in 75 years on Tuesday, with about 10 inches in one day, according ...

The Arab region covers 5 million square miles (13 million square kilometers) from Morocco to the United Arab Emirates. It contains 15 of the world's 20 most water-scarce countries. Much of the region ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Since the United Arab Emirates witnessed its heaviest recorded rainfall ever three months ago, the desert nation has issued a multitude of warnings about dengue ...

The annual United Nations climate talks officially got underway Thursday with a focus on the difficult effort to find common ground on cutting the use of planet-warming fossil fuels. The conference, ...

The final draft document of the December 2023 Climate Summit, COP28, thousands of pages long, included the magic words “fossil fuels” – just once. This daring, of including fossil fuels and their ...

UAE's state-owned oil company brokered deals to boost fossil fuels at home and overseas in 2023. The deals included supplying gas to China and expanding into Egypt and Azerbaijan. UAE led the 2023 ...

Climate activist and former United States Vice President Al Gore bashed the United Arab Emirates Sunday, arguing its position overseeing international leadership on climate change this year marked an ...

The Socotra archipelago in the Republic of Yemen consists of four islands (Socotra, Abd al-Kuri, Darsa, and Samha) and two rock islets. Lying 200 miles from the mainland coast of Yemen, it is situated ...

Pope Francis said in an Italian television interview on Wednesday that he intends to travel to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for the COP28 climate change conference in early December. “I believe I ...