Artificial rain was used for the first time in Pakistan on December 16 in a bid to combat hazardous levels of smog in the megacity of Lahore, the government said. In the first experiment of its kind ...

People have been staring at pink skies for centuries, blaming everything from divine intervention to factory smoke. These days, a new suspect has entered the conversation: cloud seeding. Online, the ...

In a place as dry as the desert city of Dubai, whenever they can get rain, they’ll take it. United Arab Emirates authorities will often even try to make it rain—as they did earlier this week when the ...

We’ve long tried to control the weather by engineering rainfall. Now such cloud-seeding efforts are escalating, creating conflict between countries and stoking conspiracy theories. But do they work?

In the wake of disastrous floods in Texas, concerns about cloud seeding technology have run rampant. The technology sounds fantastical—like the doings of a comic book villain—but scientists say the ...