Cloud seeding does not create clouds or precipitation from clear skies. It can only be effective when clouds with the right ...

Questions about cloud seeding, geoengineering and other weather-modification practices are drawing new attention as critics ...

Aquifers are underground layers of rock and sand that soak up water like a sponge and store or transmit it for use in ...

When the NASA Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 launched in late 2018, it brought high-resolution data to a new ...

Can humans really control the weather? In this video, we explain how cloud seeding works, what chemicals are used, and whether it actually makes it rain — plus the science, the risks, and the ...

Heavy rain from an atmospheric river is causing flooding and road closures across California. Social media posts have incorrectly blamed weather modification, like cloud seeding, for the severe storms ...

Have you ever wished you could control the weather? While it may sound like science fiction, weather modification is a real and continuously studied field. As extreme weather events become ...

Augustus Doricko, founder and CEO of cloud-seeding startup Rainmaker, surveys the sky from a sunbaked hillside 5 miles from Utah’s Great Salt Lake. On this balmy Sunday afternoon in late September, ...

SALT LAKE CITY—Augustus Doricko, a mullet-wearing 25-year-old who commands a small army of meteorologists and drone pilots, stood in the parched foothills of the Uinta Mountains and squinted at the ...

Iran is experiencing a drought so intense that the country’s president has said the capital city, Tehran, might have to be evacuated. In an attempt to bring rain, aircraft began a cloud-seeding ...

Iran is suffering from a severe drought that has depleted water sources, pushing authorities to begin cloud-seeding, or spraying chemicals into the air to facilitate rain. Those efforts, which began ...