During the Vietnam War, the U.S. launched Operation Popeye, a secret cloud‑seeding program designed to prolong monsoons and ...

It’s Not New I learned about cloud seeding as a young graduate student at Florida State and even worked with one of the early pioneers at NASA, Dr. Joanne Simpson, who studied it early in her ...

China has ramped up weather modification measures to bolster rainfall across parched wheat-growing areas in the north of the country, just as farmers accelerate the harvesting of their crops.

Viral posts promoted false claims that cloud seeding, a form of weather modification, played a role in the devastation. Meteorologists explain it doesn't work that way.

As China turns cloud seeding into a cornerstone of its climate strategy, the U.S. is falling behind — except, perhaps, in Utah, where key innovations could offer a way forward.

JJ: Cloud seeding in Texas dates back to the 1950s. During that time, there were no laws—there were a bunch of cowboys flying planes out in West Texas trying to seed clouds.

Cloud seeding, according to a United States Government Accountability Office report from December 2024, "is a decades-old approach to modifying weather" used to increase rain or suppress hail.

Happy Thyme, a new Asian grocery store in St. Cloud, opened its in-store Chinese restaurant in early May. The restaurant's menu features both authentic and Americanized-Chinese cuisine.

“In fact, cloud seeding cannot even create a single cloud,” Herzog wrote. “All it can do is take an existing cloud and enhance the rainfall by up to 20%.