Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clouds floating over withered crops and desiccated soil hold millions of tonnes of water that could nourish the land and replenish ...

Cloud seeding may be a term you've recently just heard, but it has been around for decades. Cloud Seeding is the process of introducing substances into clouds to induce rainfall or snow. The first ...

Whenever there's a big storm in the American West, pilots are likely flying into the eye, seeding clouds with a substance called silver iodide. The goal is to increase precipitation. Cloud seeding has ...

With expectations for a fourth winter of drought ahead and the island’s dams at very low capacity, the agriculture ministry said this week it is examining using cloud seeding to help alleviate water ...

Scientists have been shooting particles into clouds since the 1940s, praying it will bring more rain and snow. While researchers agree that “cloud seeding” can work in a laboratory setting, many have ...

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 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 ...

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. But ...

Of the many political controversies spawned by this past year’s presidential election, one of the stranger episodes put a new spotlight on the idea of weather modification and conspiracies about human ...