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Category Archives: cloud seeding
Those looking to cloud seeding to ignite a rain: better do a rain dance (Green Prophet)
Read at : http://www.greenprophet.com/2010/12/cloud-seeding/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+greenprophet+%28Green+Prophet%29 Dance for Rain, Don’t Seed Clouds Finds New Research Green Prophet Staff Prayers are answered as rain starts falling in the Middle East –– but not before hot, possibly climate change related dry spells have helped … Continue reading
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SW CHINA: Cloud seeding brings rainfall (Google / TMD Celebrity News / China Daily)
Read at : Google Alert – drought Cloud seeding brings rainfall to drought-hit SW China province TMD Celebrity News KUNMING – Artificial rainfall moistened part of Yunnan Province Saturday amid a severe drought spreading in southwest China, the local meteorological … Continue reading
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Venezuela : Seeding the Clouds for Drought Relief (Google / Finding Dulcinea)
Read at : Google Alert – drought http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/environment/2010/feb/Seeding-the-Clouds-for-Drought-Relief.html Seeding the Clouds for Drought Relief by James Sullivan Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez seeds the clouds above his country to combat a drought that has brought Venezuela’s reservoirs to their lowest levels … Continue reading
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Mauritania seeds clouds to combat desertification (Google / Magharebia)
Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/newsbriefs/general/2009/09/23/newsbrief-06 Mauritania seeds clouds to combat desertification 2009-09-23 In an effort to restore ground cover and arrest growing desertification, Mauritania on Tuesday launched a cloud seeding operation over Nouakchott, Trarza, Adrar and Nouadhibou, … Continue reading
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Cloud seeding to fight drought (Google / KiviTV)
Read at : Google Alert – drought http://www.kivitv.com/global/story.asp?s=11658758 Governments turn to cloud seeding to fight drought By SAMANTHA YOUNG Associated Press Writer SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – On a mountaintop clearing in the Sierra Nevada stands a tall metal platform holding … Continue reading
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China Makes Snow to Fight Drought (Google / My Fox Illinois / Wall Street Journal)
Read at : Google Alert – drought http://www.myfoxillinois.com/dpp/news/dpgo_china_makes_snow_fight_drought_lwf_200911021257195538353 China Makes Snow to Fight Drought Updated: Monday, 02 Nov 2009, 3:58 PM EST Published : Monday, 02 Nov 2009, 3:49 PM EST By LILY FU (MYFOX NATIONAL) – China had a … Continue reading
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China seeds clouds in wheat-growing areas (Google / Reuters)
Read at : Google Alert – drought http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE5A10J920091102 China seeds clouds in wheat-growing areas to ease drought BEIJING (Reuters) – Many Chinese wheat-growing provinces in the north seeded clouds over the weekend to help end a persistent drought and encourage … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, cloud seeding, drought
Bio-precipitation or cloud-seeding for faking snow in the desert to boost rain (IRIN)
Read at : IRINNews humanitarian news and analysis a project of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs MALI: Faking snow in the desert to boost rain BAMAKO, 14 October 2009 (IRIN) – The same technology that ski … Continue reading
Posted in cloud seeding, Desertification, drought, rain
Chinese military tackles drought crisis (Google / CNN)
Read at : Google Alert -drought http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/09/china.drought/index.html Chinese military tackles drought crisis By Emily Chang CNN BEIJING, China (CNN) — The Chinese government brought out the big guns over the weekend to help fight its worst drought in 50 years. … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, cloud seeding, drought, rain
China resorts to artillery to fight drought (Google / AFP)-
Read at : Google Alert – drought http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hCf60wh-gyChwYM6UM1jhwOBaqmA China resorts to artillery to fight drought BEIJING (AFP) — China fired thousands of artillery shells into the sky to make it rain and prepared to divert water from its two longest … Continue reading
Posted in cloud seeding, drought, rain, Uncategorized
