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 experiments typically deal with a narrow set of parameters, according to Swain, taking into account weather conditions including cloud cover, time of the day, and location.

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

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.

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

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 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 has been practiced for decades and has many different techniques and applications. It's used to alleviate fog at airports, reduce the size of hail, and increase rain or snowfall.

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.

Officials in Indonesia began cloud seeding in May with the hopes of generating enough rain to limit the damage caused by annual forest fires through September. In 2019, fires due to dry weather ...