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.

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

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

Two clouds were targeted and dissipated later that day in the cloud seeding operation Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier ...

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

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

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