When Did Cloud Seeding Start? This method started in 1946 by scientists at the General Electric Research Laboratory. They discovered that they could use silver iodide -- an inorganic compound ...

Denver • The Southern Nevada Water Authority on Thursday voted to accept a $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to fund cloud seeding in other Western states whose rivers feed ...

That’s why I’m asking Utahns of all faiths to join me in a weekend of prayer.” —Utah Governor Spencer Cox Policy frameworks regulating the use of cloud seeding exist but are incomplete. For example, ...

A nine-year, $14 million study says that cloud seeding can increase snowfall, and some officials in thirsty Arizona say it’s time to ramp it up. The study is the most ambitious and expensive ...

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 ...

Every time we see a resurgence of drought in Texas, the same question arises: Can we use cloud seeding to interfere with Mother Nature and bring some rainfall ourselves? Cloud seeding is a ...

Naturally, state governments have spent millions on cloud seeding in the hopes that the practice would promote rainfall and help quell these deadly eventualities. Unfortunately, according to a ...

Many water officials have seen cloud seeding as one possible fix for the U.S. West’s drought, which has now stretched to 25 years and is believed to be the second worst in the past 1,200 years.

MORE: Controversial methods to cool the Earth by reflecting sunlight gain traction as global temperatures rise The commenters are often referring to cloud seeding, a weather modification technique ...

A weather modification process called cloud seeding can limit the fertile environment for hail growth. It reduces the size of hailstorms by dispersing the water across “more small hailstones ...

Hatty Willmoth is a Newsweek food and nutrition reporter based in London, U.K. She has covered special diets, gut health and functional medicine extensively. Hatty joined Newsweek in 2024 from the ...