Cloud Seeding

Cloud Seeding

Cloud seeding is becoming big business in drought-stricken areas like the Rockies, despite dubious research. Cloud seeding as it’s practiced today works like this. Seeders, either tower-mounted or by airplane, shoot silver iodide into clouds. The particulates...
Flooding Fields In California

Flooding Fields In California

Flooding fields to restore groundwater is a new tactic farmers are using, trying to hold onto the unusual amount of rain California got this year. While it’s hard to believe, the intense rain and flooding that California has seen the past few months...
NOAA Tallies the Cost

NOAA Tallies the Cost

NOAA counted 18 distinct climate extremes in the United States in 2022, costing Americans over $165 billion and killing at least 474 people. 2022 wasn’t the hottest year on record (that was 2020), or the wettest (2018), but it was among the wildest. Eighteen...