It might sound like science fiction, but some scientists say we have tools that could be used to disrupt natural disasters.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clouds floating over withered crops and desiccated soil hold millions of tonnes of water that could nourish the land and replenish ...

"If the promise is that cloud seeding is going to eliminate droughts even on a local level, the answer is no." ...

DENVER, Colorado — Cloud seeding can provide between 5% and 15% more snow to help ski areas, farmers and watersheds in the state, supporters say. "These observations show us that cloud seeding does ...

Katja Friedrich is a professor and associate chair in CU Boulder’s Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences department. She is known for her work in cloud seeding, a process used to generate precipitation ...

Haveri district will conduct a three-day cloud seeding operation from July 7 using a specially equipped US aircraft to tackle ...

A four-year cloud seeding pilot program in California began in November. It targeted four mountain regions to increase precipitation during storms. Its ultimate goal is increasing the region’s water ...

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Can you fool with nature? A team of scientists and the state of Wyoming are on an atmospheric research mission to find out. Since the 1960s, scientists, local water districts and ski resorts have ...

For nearly 50 years, scientists have suspected that microscopic marine plankton play a role in cloud formation over the oceans. Now, an experiment led by the University of Helsinki suggests that it ...

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 ...

Encouraging stormclouds to produce extra rain is relatively easy in western states, but much more difficult in the drought-stricken southeast. In that region, cloud seeders have just minutes to do ...