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China Plans Cloud Seeding to Protect Grain Crop from Drought

CHONGQING, China (AP) — China says it will try to protect its grain harvest from record-setting drought by using chemicals to generate rain, while factories in the southwest waited Sunday to see whether they would be shut down for another …

Geoengineering: The Unspoken Climate Change Option

It’s the option climate negotiators here are loath to talk about. What if they fail to curb global warming and the environment gets so dangerous that someone decides to do something drastic and play mad scientist? Should nations purposely pollute …

Wyoming Research Shows Cloud Seeding Increases Snowpack

New research in Wyoming finds that cloud seeding can increase mountain snowfall by up to 15 percent a year. In addition, the state-funded research suggests cloud seeding has negligible environmental effects – and almost no effect on precipitation in surrounding …