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Don't really know what happens with bioaccumulation over time for areas that have been exposed to cloud seeding repeatedly. we do know that silver iodide is a toxic chemical. in the united states, it is regulated under the clean and act so i think there is good reason to think there are potential risks here. —— the clean air act. we also don't know what the geographic applications and disaster risk associated with widescale use of cloud seeding might be. you are essentially taking water and making it full in one location when it would otherwise have fallen in other locations, so moving the...

Agriculture ministry says it will try to protect its grain harvest from record-setting drought by using chemicals to generate rain

Denies wrongdoing. at least 26 people have died in forest fires in algeria. it brings the total number of people killed in wildfires this summer up to 30. more than 100 fires have broken out in the country since the start of the month, destroying more than 2,500 hectares of woodland. chinese authorities are attempting to induce rainfall in parts of china amid a severe drought and record—breaking heatwave. the two—month—long heatwave is the longest on record, and has left the yangtze river — asia's longest waterway — at historically low levels. provinces around the river have turned t...

In extreme and varying weather conditions believed to be due to crazy industrialization causing a huge blow to environment, China is facing floods in some of its provinces while at the same time acute water shortage and drought in others.

Cloud seeding, deliberate introduction into clouds of various substances that act as condensation nuclei or ice nuclei in an attempt to induce precipitation. Although the practice has many advocates, including national, state, and provincial government officials, some meteorologists and atmospheric scientists question its effectiveness. The first experiments with cloud seeding were conducted in 1946 by American chemist and meteorologist Vincent J. Schaefer, and since then seeding has been performed from aircraft, rockets, cannons, and ground generators. Many substances have been used, but sol...