If you want to keep birds coming to your garden year after year, try planting some self-seeding flowers to provide yearly ...

Despite below-average snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, total precipitation levels are hovering near, or even above, ...

In a place as dry as the desert city of Dubai, whenever they can get rain, they’ll take it. United Arab Emirates authorities will often even try to make it rain—as they did earlier this week when the ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- Los Angeles County is using cloud-seeding technology to coax more rain from the skies when rare storms hit parched Southern California. Bill Saunders calls himself the storm boss.

Drones are used for aerial photography, surveillance, news coverage, and rescue operations. Now a group of scientists and researchers are figuring out if drones can make it rain. The science is called ...

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 ...

We visited one of the longest-running cloud-seeding operations in the country to get a demo of the technology behind real weather modification. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video Producer for ...

Cloud seeding has been around since the 1940s, and more than 50 countries around the world have tried it. As climate change has worsened droughts around the country, more states are hoping to try ...

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Whenever there's a big storm in the American West, pilots are likely flying into the eye, seeding clouds with a substance called silver iodide. The goal is to increase precipitation. Cloud seeding has ...