India’s capital is preparing to create artificial rain in a bid to find ways to ease its toxic air pollution, with cloud seeding trials planned next week. The move would mark the first time ...

Now, China claims to have produced 250 billion metric tons of artificial rain between 1996 and 2006 and has plans to harvest far more water from the skies. The jury is still out on weather ...

And scientists now claim they have worked out how the single celled microbes can be used to make artificial rain.

Cloud-seeding tricks the atmosphere into making it rain. Some believe it’s the key to reversing future droughts—despite the big risks.

Can Artificial Rain, Drones, or Satellites Clean Toxic Air? India’s capital has turned to tech to fight its worst air pollution in eight years. Photograph: AP Photo/Manish Swarup ...

Delhi’s government is exploring a new strategy to tackle the annual problem of toxic air pollution – inducing artificial rain over the national capital. The Indian capital’s administration ...

That a desert nation such as the United Arab Emirates should even think about building a mountain to make it rain is a sign of desperate times, says Jamais Cascio   ...