For years, scientists have experimented with engineering techniques that can safely modify rainfall. But experts say the ...

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

Cloud-seeding operations take place in at least nine U.S. states as of 2024, according to data from the United States ...

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

Cloud seeding has been conducted off and in the central Sierra — including the north fork of the Stanislaus River — since the ...

Experts say outlandish claims of weather manipulation are hindering disaster preparedness and emergency response.

Regardless, the process cannot create storms out of thin air. Ken Leppert, an associate professor of atmospheric science at ...

A new law bans companies and people from modifying the weather in Florida, including cloud seeding. On July 1, Senate Bill 56 ...

A measure to ban geoengineering in Arizona has been amended to allow cloud seeding, which has been under study for years.

USDA scientists are testing new cloud seeding technology to help fight drought by unlocking more rain from clouds. The key ingredients are tap water and a small electrical charge.

Cloud seeding would be useless." But even if California had not been experiencing drought, cloud seeding was not generally an appropriate solution to wildfires, said Ambaum.