Drought-hit Thailand sends up the Royal Rainmakers
When drought strikes, Thailand turns to its Royal Rainmakers -- an airborne team which seeds the clouds over the kingdom. The country is the grip of its worst drought for decades, with 22 of its 76
Aerial Seeding
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UAE banks on 'rainmakers' to secure future water supply
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 clouds
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Cuba to introduce cloud seeding programme to tackle drought
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. The effectiveness
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Ministry seeks Mahabaleshwar land for cloud-seeding project
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.
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Cloud-seeding part II begins this week
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.
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Cloud seeding on anvil
The government has been seriously contemplating taking up cloud seeding along the State
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State all set to try Chinese method of cloud seeding
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.
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Cloudseeding yielded good results, says state
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.
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IITM cloud seeding drive from July
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.
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To snow or not to snow
Vladimir Radyuhin MOSCOW: As weather modifying becomes increasingly fashionable, Moscow is joining Beijing in trying to tamper with snowfalls.