Cloud seeding boosts rain by just 5–15% in ideal conditions. Experts clarify it can’t cause devastating floods like the ...

Two clouds were targeted and dissipated later that day in the cloud seeding operation Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier ...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) introduced a bill to ban weather modification on Saturday, following claims that it ...

Cloud seeding has become a hot topic for debate, but it's actually a technique we first discovered in the 1940s. Here's what you need to know about it.

A firefighting helicopter drops water on the Palisades fire near Mandeville Canyon and Encino, California, on January 11, 2025. Inset, Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks in September 2024.

In 2017, Friedrich’s research group had a breakthrough in measuring the effect of cloud seeding. “We flew some aircraft, released silver iodide, and generated these clouds that were like these ...

Dubai experienced record rainfall leading to flooding April 16 after cloud seeding, though meteorologists said it was unli. ... The debate around modifying and controlling the weather, ...

Debate was spirited. Dave Reynolds, a longtime meteorologist and former cloud-seeding researcher, ... -- Cloud seeding generator sites ranged from 7,600 to 9,900 feet in elevation.

Cloud-seeding programs to boost both rain and snowfall are now under way in Texas, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, New Mexico and California. For West Texas farmer Steve Williams, the benefits of ...

Cloud-Seeding Startup Rainmaker Takes on Challenges. Making It Rain Is Just One of Them. Weather-modification company has raised $6.3 million in venture funding to help customers cope with water ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, cloud seeding is a type of weather modification that requires a release of chemicals into the atmosphere. By ...