ABC News Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee clears up misinformation regarding Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
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Marketplace: Can cloud seeding save a drought-stricken “national treasure”?
About 15 miles southwest of Las Vegas, Nevada, I’m bouncing up a rutted gravel road in the foothills of the Spring Mountains with Pauline Van Betten, a local real estate agent and environmental advocate. “Go slow,” Van Betten said. “I do a lot of land that’s off-road and I’ve had two popped tires.” Van Betten…
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KVVU Fox 5 Las Vegas: Making it rain: Cloud seeding effort aims to bring more water to Red Rock Canyon
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Nevada and other states in the Colorado River Basin continue to face a water crisis. Drought has stretched on for more than two decades and is compounded by the effects of climate change. Last year, Lake Mead dipped to an all-time low. Can human intervention make a difference? Can we…
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Las Vegas Weekly: Desert Research Institute to RecEive $1.2 Million for Nevada Cloud Seeding
Advocates and scientists in Southern Nevada are celebrating the passage of a bill authorizing funding for cloud seeding projects across the state.
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KSNV News 3: It won’t refill Lake Mead, but state lawmakers are betting on Nevada cloud seeding program
Nevada state lawmakers unanimously agreed to send $1.2 million over the next two years to continue—and expand—a statewide cloud seeding project.
Read MoreKVVU Fox 5 Las Vegas: Making it rain: New Nevada law allocates $1.2 million for cloud seeding
Governor Joe Lombardo signing a new law to help fight the drought and climate change in Nevada. More than a million dollars will be used over the next two years for cloud seeding. Conservation group Save Red Rock is celebrating the news as a big win.
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KTNV ABC 13: Cloud seeding success: Efforts to increase precipitation in Red Rock Canyon pay off
While this year’s wet winter is undeniably a major factor in that change, cloud seeding efforts are partially to thank, said Pauline Van Betten, a land and water specialist with conservation organization Save Red Rock.
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Desert Companion: Desert Drift
Rafting the Colorado River in search of what we’d lose if it ran dry
Read MoreKVVU Fox 5 Las Vegas: Cloud seeding helps extract more water from rounds of winter storms in Southern Nevada
By Kim Passoth LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – The tremendous rainfall this winter has had an impact on Nevada’s drought. This time two years ago, Southern Nevada was in an exceptional drought, the worst possible category. Now, all of Clark County is either in a severe or moderate drought marking a significant improvement. Up at Lee…
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Associated Press: Feds spend $2.4 million on cloud seeding for Colorado River
The Southern Nevada Water Authority on Thursday voted to accept a $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to fund cloud seeding in other Western states whose rivers feed the parched desert region.
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London Review of Books: The Rainmakers of the American Southwest
I learned of the cloud seeders in Red Rock Canyon from a friend’s husband. It was late autumn in Beatty, Nevada, a windswept town two hours north of Las Vegas, and we’d just returned from a hike in Death Valley. ‘Have you heard of these people trying to manufacture clouds in Red Rock?’ he asked me.
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The New York Times: 7 States, 1 River and an Agonizing Choice
In the United States, 40 million people in seven states depend on water provided by the Colorado River. After 20 years of drought, the situation is dire and the river is at risk of becoming a “deadpool,” a condition in which there is not enough water to pass through the dams.
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