For years, scientists have experimented with engineering techniques that can safely modify rainfall. But experts say the ...

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

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

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

Meteorologists point out that hurricanes and flood-making storms possess extraordinary amounts of energy that humans can't ...

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

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

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

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

As conspiracies and questions grow over the role of cloud seeding in the deadly Texas flash floods, NBC News' Chase Cain ...

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

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.