NEW DELHI: Every winter, a thick blanket of smog descends over Delhi, turning the capital’s skyline into a hazy silhouette. Schools shut, visibility dips, and the Air Quality Index rockets into the ...

Toying with Mother Nature isn’t as scary as it sounds in the context of cloud seeding, according to meteorologists and experts focused on the task. The term refers to a process of weather manipulation ...

Three weeks have passed since a massive rainstorm triggered catastrophic floods across the Texas Hill Country, killing at least 135 men, women, and children. Amid the rescue and recovery efforts, some ...

Reprieve from drought and a worsening water crisis in Colorado and the western U.S. may come from the clouds above. Yes, that’s always been the case. But the U.S. and other countries are beginning to ...

A decades-long controversy has a new twist: Drones have caused 19 million gallons of precipitation to fall in Alaska. The drones were used for cloud seeding, part of a long-running scientific project ...

In a state where every raindrop counts, scientists in the Desert Research Institute’s Cloud Seeding Program have mastered the art of enhancing natural precipitation, transforming wispy clouds into ...

BENGALURU: Even as the Karnataka government has formed two committees to take up cloud seeding in parts of the state in view of the drought situation, weathermen said the exercise is futile as ...

As the woes of the Great Salt Lake continue to deepen, a California-based company believes its next-generation cloud seeding technology may be part of the solution.

The remnants of Tropical Storm Barry dropping intense rain on a flood-prone region caused the deadly flood in Texas, meteorologists said. Cloud seeding, the process of introducing particles into a ...