When drought strikes, Thailand turns to its Royal Rainmakers -- an airborne team which seeds the clouds over the kingdom.

As climate change makes the desert nation hotter and drier, and a growing economy uses more water, the United Arab Emirates is giving $5m to researchers finding ways to wring more moisture out of c

HAVANA, Cuba (CMC) - The Water Resources institute says a cloud seeding programme will be implemented on September 15 in an effort to relieve areas hard hit by the prolonged drought.

Pune The Ministry of Earth Sciences has requested the state government to part with 17 gunthas of land in Mahabaleshwar for its cloud-seeding project, for which it had got a green signal early in the year.

The cloud-seeding experiment in rainshadow regions is likely to begin this week, pushed from its August-25 schedule as scientists at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) wait for some clearances.

The government has been seriously contemplating taking up cloud seeding along the State

The State Government has decided to go the Chinese way to deal with the erratic monsoon rains: It will test rocket launching system of cloud seeding to ensure rainfall and avoid agriculture drought.

July 15: The agriculture minister, Mr N. Raghuveera Reddy, on Thursday said that the scientific data available with the government had proved that the cloud seeding operations yielded positive results.

As the country saw drought-like situation in most regions and recorded 22 per cent less than normal rainfall last year, city-based Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) under the India Meteorological Department has charted out its cloud seeding programme for the rain shadow regions in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka for this year.

Vladimir Radyuhin

MOSCOW: As weather modifying becomes increasingly fashionable, Moscow is joining Beijing in trying to tamper with snowfalls.

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