Amid the tragedy of recent flash floods in central Texas, conspiracy theories about "cloud seeding" practices have gained ...

Cloud seeding gives these clouds a lot more ice crystals (or cloud nuclei). If experts complete seeding at the right time, it leads to more moisture supply, which will eventually create rainwater.

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

Cloud-seeding was blamed for a devastating flash flood in South Dakota in 1972, though a scientific review determined the ...

Delhi is set to trial cloud seeding in early September to initiate artificial rain and reduce air pollution. The postponed ...

Cloud seeding has become a hot topic for debate, but it's actually a technique we first discovered in the 1940s. Here's what you need to know about it.

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.

Cloud seeding modifies weather by releasing silver iodide into clouds, helping form ice crystals and boosting the chances of rain.

Cloud-seeding programs to boost both rain and snowfall are now under way in Texas, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, New Mexico and California. For West Texas farmer Steve Williams, the benefits of ...

Cloud seeding involves spraying silver iodide into the atmosphere — from the ground and from the air — to add condensation nuclei and boost rainfall, potentially by as much as 20%, Scrudato said.

Cloud seeding is an 80-year-old practice for the promotion of rainfall, where airplanes fly up into the cloud layer and inject dry ice or silver iodide crystals to induce the water vapor to form ...