Chinese planes are firing rods into the sky to bring more rainfall to its crucial Yangtze River, which has dried up in parts, as swaths of the nation fall into drought and grapple with the worst ...

Above, a stock image of the Yangtze River in China ... production from clouds after being seeded with silver iodide, although many studies have also found that seeding has no effect on precipitation.

No details were given on the cloud-seeding efforts. China has been experimenting with weather modification for decades, using a technique known as cloud-seeding to induce rainfall, though ...

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 the ...