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China says new technology will allow for vast areas of artificial rainfall and hail suppression
China reveals plans to expand its experimental weather modification program over the next five years, to cover an area greater than the size of India with artificial rainfall.
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China’s building a rain-making network three times the size of Spain
Vast system of chambers on Tibetan plateau could send enough particles into the atmosphere to allow extensive clouds to form. By Stephen Chen.
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With Operation Popeye, the U.S. government made weather an instrument of war
Operation Popeye was a secret Vietnam War-era effort to conduct covert cloud seeding over Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, extend the monsoon season, and give the United States an advantage in the war. By Eleanor Cummins.
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How air conditioning changed the world
Initially invented for the printing industry, the technology has transformed the way we live and work. By Tim Harford.