Clouds floating over withered crops and desiccated soil hold millions of tonnes of water that could nourish the land and replenish our wells. What if humans could force those clouds to produce rain ...

Augustus Doricko’s Rainmaker uses cloud seeding to bring rain where it’s needed. In the process, he’s been swept up in a ...

Cloud Seeding: Cloud seeding is in the news these days. Recently, an attempt to induce artificial rain, i.e., cloud seeding, was unsuccessful in Delhi, the capital of the country suffering from severe ...

As conspiracy theories point to cloud seeding as a possible cause of the Texas floods, here’s a look at the science behind the process and why it’s used. Cloud seeding’s origins can be traced back to ...

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 ...

Saudi Arabia is readying an expansion of its cloud-seeding program, a controversial effort to boost rainfall over its parched territory, the country’s deputy environment minister said in an interview.

Two days before the waters of the Guadalupe River swelled into a deadly and devastating Fourth of July flood in Kerr County, Texas, engineers with a California-based company called Rainmaker took off ...

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The National Center of Meteorology, a government task force responsible for cloud seeding missions in the United Arab Emirates, said it had not carried out the weather ...

A torrent of rain on Tuesday flooded parts of Dubai, turned streets into rivers and shut down the world’s second-busiest airport for a time. The deluge of water triggered the question: Was this ...

As heavy rains persist in Texas following the deadly July 4 floods, the state has suspended all cloud seeding operations amid above-average publicity for the otherwise little-known technology. Cloud ...

The National Center of Meteorology, a government taskforce responsible for cloud seeding missions in the United Arab Emirates, denied reports that it carried out the weather modification technique in ...