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

All clouds need “seeds” called condensation nuclei or ice nuclei to properly develop. This could be a speck of dust, clay or ...

For years, scientists have experimented with engineering techniques that can safely modify rainfall. But experts say the technology isn't capable of causing extreme, sudden flooding.

Cloud seeding boosts rain by just 5–15% in ideal conditions. Experts clarify it can’t cause devastating floods like the ...

Cloud seeding is a concept that was sowed in the 1940s. Vincent J. Schaefer, Bernard Vonnegut and Irving Langmuir were ...

Viral posts promoted false claims that cloud seeding, a form of weather modification, played a role in the devastation.

Despite conspiracy theories, there's no way that cloud seeding operations days before the storm could have influenced the ...

Along a similar vein, conspiracy theories maligning Doppler weather radars as “weather weapons” have heightened in the wake ...

In the aftermath of the Texas Hill Country flooding, as well as floods in New Mexico and North Carolina, misinformation about cloud speeding is surging.

Is cloud seeding safe? Jonathan Jennings explains the science behind the technology in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.

Some people online suggested cloud seeding conducted by the company Rainmaker Technology Corporation was to blame for deadly ...

Misinformation is circulating about the recent Hill Country floods, with some questioning if the weather was modified through ...