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.

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.

Cloud seeding boosts rain by just 5–15% in ideal conditions. Experts clarify it can’t cause devastating floods like the ...

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

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

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

Misinformation is circulating about the recent Hill Country floods, with some questioning if the weather was modified through ...

Cloud seeding has been conducted off and in the central Sierra — including the north fork of the Stanislaus River — since the ...

More coverage on the historic, deadly Hill Country floods in Texas: ...

Is cloud seeding safe? Jonathan Jennings explains the science behind the technology in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.