Utah has experimented with cloud seeding for decades, using ground devices and airplanes to disperse silver iodide and liquid propane to pad moisture statistics in one of the nation’s driest states.

Silver iodide is not soluble in water, so it is considered non-harmful, especially compared to other chemicals like sulfur, ...

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 ...

Chinese government scientists have released results from a weather modification experiment in Xinjiang, where a fleet of cloud-seeding drones boosted rainfall by over 4% across more than 3,089 square ...

The melting of materials seems like a simple phenomenon. However, when their thickness is reduced to just a few atoms, ...

Los Angeles County plans to launch an $800,000 cloud-seeding project in the San Gabriel Mountains in hopes of boosting rainfall and raising the levels at local reservoirs. The project, which will rely ...

In the aftermath of deadly floods in Central Texas, a bizarre theory emerged on social media: This was no act of God or natural disaster—it was man-made. “We must end the dangerous and deadly practice ...

When scientific rainmaking was invented in the U.S. in the late 19405, it seemed that at last man could do something about the weather. All over the world, commercial rainmakers armed themselves with ...

Humans have the technology to literally make snow fall from the clouds. In the drought-stricken Southwest, where the Colorado River needs every drop of water it can get, there are calls to use it more ...

Idaho Power’s 2024-25 cloud-seeding season was quieter than usual as conditions limited opportunities. All measures tracked were below the 10-year average, according to information that Shaun ...