Artificial rain, at best, offers only fleeting relief. Also, it raises questions about chemical accumulation in soil and ...

Last year, the Union environment ministry had told Parliament that it was infeasible as an emergency step to improve Delhi’s air quality. According to its assessment, clouds over North India during ...

Only one side of a silver crystal has the right structure to trigger ice formation, revealing how these particles help clouds ...

Scientists say cloud seeding can boost snowpack by up to 12% during storms that already form naturally, a small change that ...

Researchers uncover how the surface structure of silver iodide at the atomic scale triggers ice formation in clouds, ...

No one can control the weather, but certain clouds can be deliberately triggered to release rain or snow. The process, known ...

Silver iodide is the material of choice to make clouds release rain and snow. For decades, its remarkable ability to trigger precipitation has been used in cloud seeding to prevent hail damage and ...

India's efforts to combat air pollution by using cloud seeding in its sprawling capital New Delhi appear to have fallen flat, ...

Kanpur's cloud seeding attempt over Delhi failed due to insufficient moisture in the atmosphere and unfavourable winter ...

India's efforts to combat air pollution by using cloud seeding in its sprawling capital New Delhi appear to have fallen flat, ...

Cloud seeding is in the news these days. Recently, an attempt to induce artificial rain, i.e., cloud seeding, was ...