By Rhett Ayers Butler Rainfall is often treated as a gift of geography — a function of latitude, oceans, and atmospheric circulation. A growing body of research suggests that in the tropics, it is ...

A new study reveals that the Brazilian Amazon produces rainfall worth about $20 billion per year to regional agriculture.

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rain Enhancement Technologies, Inc. (“Rainwater Tech”), a leader in the development of rainfall generation technology, and Discovery Land Company (“Discovery”), one of ...

Person with rain jacket in storm. Flooding is the most common and expensive natural disaster in the United States, costing more than $850 million in damages since 2000. Much of this flooding comes ...

New research finds that heavy pollution in Southeast Asia is suppressing rainfall over land while intensifying it over the ocean. Cars, factories, and power plants are producing tiny particles, called ...

China has been planting millions of trees to slow the advance of the Gobi Desert, but the vast new forests have also reduced ...