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Cloud seeding boosts rain by just 5–15% in ideal conditions. Experts clarify it can’t cause devastating floods like the ...
False claims are circulating online blaming this month's deadly Texas flooding on a weather modification technique known as ...
Cloud seeding has been the subject of studies and experiments in Arizona for many years as a way to coax more precipitation from clouds and increase water runoff.
Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser and an election denier, who pleaded guilty to lying ...
Cloud seeding’s effectiveness is up for debate. Cloud seeding exists in theory and in ... an associate professor at Northeastern University who specializes in climate and public policy, ...
A small contingent of lawmakers are blaming silver iodide for extreme weather events, including the disastrous flooding in Texas, but at least they're getting closer to the truth.
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.
Many water officials have seen cloud seeding as one possible fix for the U.S. West’s drought, which has now stretched to 25 years and is believed to be the second worst in the past 1,200 years.
A nine-year, $14 million study says that cloud seeding can increase snowfall, and some officials in thirsty Arizona say it’s time to ramp it up. The study is the most ambitious and expensive ...
Dr. Laura Kuhl, an associate professor at Northeastern University who specializes in climate and public policy, outlined some of the potential pitfalls of cloud seeding in an article published in ...