Why there’s no scientific basis for blaming the longtime drought-fighting practice for the tragic Central Texas flooding.

More coverage on the historic, deadly Hill Country floods in Texas: ...

This is false. It is not possible that cloud seeding generated the floods, according to experts, as the process can only ...

More and more voices, including politicians, say that cloud seeding — or man-made ways of increasing precipitation — caused the deadly floods in Texas. Experts say this is damaging public trust.

Augustus Doricko knew when he founded a cloud-seeding startup in 2023 that he’d have to contend with misunderstandings and ...

Still, claims of weather-control technology, once confined to relatively fringe circles, have gained some traction in the ...

First reported by the Houston Chronicle, cloud seeding involves releasing silver iodide into clouds to increase rainfall ...

Over 100 people have died in a terrible flood in Texas, and conspiracy theories are once again in the news. Some people are ...

Now, the results of the most scientific study of cloud seeding done yet are in. Researchers found that seeding clouds with droplets of silver iodide does slightly increase precipitation, boosting ...

The science so far suggests that cloud seeding is far from a silver bullet when it comes to dealing with drought. For one thing, the SNOWIE experiments generated a fairly modest amount of snowfall.

Meteorologists first conceived of seeding clouds as a way to increase rainfall in 1946, working at General Electric's laboratories in Schenectady, New York.