Dec 4, 2020 · China this week revealed plans to drastically expand an experimental weather modification program to cover an area of over 5.5 million square kilometers (2.1 million square miles) – more than...

Aug 17, 2022 · On Wednesday, central China’s Hubei province became the latest to announce it would seed clouds, using silver iodide rods to induce rainfall. The silver iodide rods – which are typically...

Apr 26, 2018 · China is building the foundations of what will become the largest artificial rain experiment in history, in an attempt to induce extra rainfall over the Tibetan Plateau. Seeding clouds over an area bigger than Alaska.

Aug 17, 2022 · Provinces around the drought-stricken Yangtze river have turned to cloud seeding operations to combat the lack of rain, with Hubei and a number of other provinces launching rockets carrying...

Aug 24, 2022 · China is reportedly planning to use cloud-seeding technology to force it to rain in an attempt to alleviate the drought conditions plaguing the Yangtze River basin—amid hot temperatures that...

The Beijing Weather Modification Office form a part of China's nationwide weather control effort, believed to be the world's largest; it employs 37,000 people nationwide, who seed clouds by firing rockets and shells loaded with silver iodide into them. [4]

China has begun using a long-endurance strike and reconnaissance drone in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region for cloud-seeding trial. The long-range TB-A strike and reconnaissance drone,...

The government says it will try to protect China’s grain harvest from record-setting drought by using chemicals to generate rain, while factories in the southwest waited Sunday to see whether they might be shut down for another week due to shortages of water to generate hydropower.

Aug 22, 2022 · According to CNN, Beijing is planning to use cloud seeding to bring more rainfall to the Yangtze River, which has dried up in certain areas. However, some of the operations are currently on...

Aug 7, 2024 · China has deployed a long-endurance dual-use drone in a cloud-seeding trial in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, the first time the controversial practice has been carried out by an unmanned...