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 ...

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.

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, ...

Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser and an election denier, who pleaded guilty to lying ...

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.

While there are no simple solutions to water policy in the American West, significant policy changes are needed and current discussions about where and how to seed clouds don’t tackle these complex ...

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.

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 ...