Experts say outlandish claims of weather manipulation are hindering disaster preparedness and emergency response.

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

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

Online rumors are blaming cloud seeding for the deadly Texas floods, even though the science doesn’t support it. Experts say ...

Unfounded rumors linking an extreme weather event to human attempts at weather modification are again spreading on social ...

Days after flash floods swept away roads, homes and a Christian girls’ summer camp, claiming more than 100 lives, posts flourished attempting to link a common practice called “cloud seeding” in ...

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

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

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.

The remnants of Tropical Storm Barry dropping intense rain on a flood-prone region caused the deadly flood in Texas, meteorologists said. Cloud seeding, the process of introducing particles into a ...

Regardless, the process cannot create storms out of thin air. Ken Leppert, an associate professor of atmospheric science at ...