Cloud seeding can increase rainfall and reduce hail damage to crops, but its use is limited. John Finney Photography/Moment via Getty Images When an unexpected rainstorm leaves you soaking wet, it is ...

In the wake of the horrific Texas floods, there is a lot of discussion about cloud seeding. While it certainly did not cause those floods, talk about cloud seeding has flowed out of the fringes into ...

In a place as dry as the desert city of Dubai, whenever they can get rain, they’ll take it. United Arab Emirates authorities will often even try to make it rain—as they did earlier this week when the ...

In the wake of devastating and deadly flooding in communities in Texas, and now in New Mexico and North Carolina, a potential congressional bill is being backed to tackle “weather modification.” Rep.

In the skies over Al Ain, in the United Arab Emirates, pilot Mark Newman waits for the signal. When it comes, he flicks a few silver switches on a panel by his leg, twists two black dials, then ...

As conspiracy theories point to cloud seeding as a possible cause of the Texas floods, here’s a look at the science behind the process and why it’s used. Cloud seeding’s origins can be traced back to ...

In the UAE, scientists are actively enhancing rainfall through a sophisticated cloud-seeding program. Utilising aircraft, ...

In a place as dry as the desert city of Dubai, whenever they can get rain, they’ll take it. United Arab Emirates authorities will often even try to make it rain—as they did earlier this week when the ...

There have been reports of cloud seeding occurring a few days before the tragic Texas flash flooding. So what is cloud-seeding, and could it actually produce a situation like the recent flood? Cloud ...

With cloud seeding, it may rain, but it doesn't really pour or flood — at least nothing like what drenched the United Arab Emirates and paralyzed Dubai, meteorologists said. Cloud seeding, although ...

Texas needs rain, there’s no question about it. The reason for the drought has been well documented as a strong high pressure system, or a heat dome, that has been sitting over the Lone Star State for ...

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