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US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced plans to introduce federal legislation making weather modification activities a felony offence, despite scientific consensus that large-scale ...

As climate change and the resulting extreme weather intensify, interest in weather modification is growing around the world. In Japan, under Goal 8 of the Moonshot Research and Development Program led ...

The Moonshot Research and Development Program, launched by the Cabinet Office of Japan, promotes high-risk, high-impact R&D aiming to achieve ambitious Moonshot Goals and address challenges facing ...

In the wake of the devastation caused by hurricanes Helene and Milton, online conspiracy theories about weather control have flourished. FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell described the storm of ...

Years after blaming California wildfires on “Jewish space lasers,” big-brained congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is complaining about the government not being able to control the most recent blazes ...

So why have old-school weather control myths suddenly gone mainstream? The first reason is that there is profit to be gained. In a world where floods, wildfires, and hurricanes are increasingly common ...

Lawmakers expressed concerns over weather modification and geoengineering. A congressional subcommittee spent nearly two hours on Tuesday discussing the rarely practiced but frequently talked about ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a statement on Wednesday debunking right-wing claims that the government can control hurricanes. After back-to-back major hurricanes ...

Florida has moved forward on a bill to prohibit weather modification in the Sunshine State. The bill, SB 56, which bans "geoengineering and weather modification activities," was approved during a ...

The technology was installed at the utility's power distribution control center, where operators work around the clock to ...