Cloud seeding gives these clouds a lot more ice crystals (or cloud nuclei). If experts complete seeding at the right time, it leads to more moisture supply, which will eventually create rainwater.

Cloud seeding is a form of planned weather modification. Most commonly used to increase precipitation as a drought management technique, cloud seeding is also regularly used to clear fog in airports, ...

A firefighting helicopter drops water on the Palisades fire near Mandeville Canyon and Encino, California, on January 11, 2025. Inset, Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks in September 2024.

Cloud seeding is an 80-year-old practice for the promotion of rainfall, where airplanes fly up into the cloud layer and inject dry ice or silver iodide crystals to induce the water vapor to form ...

Cloud seeding has become a hot topic for debate, but it's actually a technique we first discovered in the 1940s. Here's what you need to know about it.

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Cloud seeding is an idea that’s often thrown around as a solution to our state’s drought, but manipulating the weather to make it rain might not be as effective as once ...

Cloud seeding in the U.S. got "oversold" and federal funding dried up in the 1990s and early 2000s, said Frank McDonough, a scientist at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada.

Cloud-seeding programs to boost both rain and snowfall are now under way in Texas, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, New Mexico and California. For West Texas farmer Steve Williams, the benefits of ...

Mexico contends that its current cloud seeding project, which it has been running since December 2020, has had a positive impact. In 2021, the cloud seeding flights had created 40% more rain, the ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Cloud seeding is an idea that’s often thrown around as a solution to our state’s drought, but manipulating the weather to make it rain might not be as effective as once ...