Experts say outlandish claims of weather manipulation are hindering disaster preparedness and emergency response.

Despite conspiracy theories, there's no way that cloud seeding operations days before the storm could have influenced the ...

Viral posts promoted false claims that cloud seeding, a form of weather modification, played a role in the devastation.

In the aftermath of deadly flash floods that swept through Texas Hill Country in July 2025, some people online suggested the ...

For years, scientists have experimented with engineering techniques that can safely modify rainfall. But experts say the technology isn't capable of causing extreme, sudden flooding.

Some people online suggested cloud seeding conducted by the company Rainmaker Technology Corporation was to blame for deadly ...

Cloud seeding could not have caused the disaster because the process increases precipitation only by a small amount, experts ...

Two clouds were targeted and dissipated later that day in the cloud seeding operation Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier ...

False claims are circulating online blaming this month's deadly Texas flooding on a weather modification technique known as ...

Conspiracy theories about weather modification programs are surging online amid a torrent of misinformation following tragic ...

All clouds need “seeds” called condensation nuclei or ice nuclei to properly develop. This could be a speck of dust, clay or ...

Cloud-seeding was blamed for a devastating flash flood in South Dakota in 1972, though a scientific review determined the ...