Experts say outlandish claims of weather manipulation are hindering disaster preparedness and emergency response.

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.

Viral posts promoted false claims that cloud seeding, a form of weather modification, played a role in the devastation.

Florida's Attorney General raises eyebrows by suggesting a connection between weather modification and recent Texas floods, while promoting a new state law on chemtrails.

Augustus Doricko knew when he founded a cloud-seeding start-up in 2023 that he’d have to contend with misunderstandings and ...

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

Conspiracy theorists have blamed the devastating flash floods in Texas on cloud seeding, a technique used to chemically ...

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

Over 100 people have died in a terrible flood in Texas, and conspiracy theories are once again in the news. Some people are ...

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

As deadly flash floods hit New Jersey and New York, social media users speculated that cloud seeding was to blame for the heavy rainfall ...

Cloud-seeding was blamed for a devastating flash flood in South Dakota in 1972, though a scientific review determined the ...