Shifting a storm away from one city could push risk onto another region.

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

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

Cloud seeding may be a term you've recently just heard, but it has been around for decades. Cloud Seeding is the process of introducing substances into clouds to induce rainfall or snow. The first ...

Heavy rain from a persistent atmospheric river pattern continues to impact California this week, triggering flooding, road closures, and at least one reported fatality as storms sweep across the state ...

The American West is in a horrifying drought and the deleterious effect of the resulting wildfires has been felt by many in recent years. Naturally, state governments have spent millions on cloud ...

As the United Arab Emirates grapples with historic floods that have overtaken roads and highways, disrupted flights at Dubai International Airport and killed nearly 20 in neighboring Oman, theories ...

With cloud seeding, it may rain, but it doesn't really pour or flood—at least nothing like what drenched the United Arab Emirates and paralyzed Dubai, meteorologists said. Cloud seeding, although ...

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 ...

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 ...