For decades, governments have allowed companies to spritz clouds with chemicals like silver iodide to encourage extra snow or rain onto arid fields below, usually at the request of farmers and ranchers.
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Alex Harris,
Miami Herald,
16 July 2025
Flickering habitability The landscape turned arid, judging by Earth’s standards, roughly 3.5 billion years ago.
While urban areas like Los Angeles are under mandatory drought restrictions to reduce strain on state reservoirs, many rural residents reliant on groundwater wells are waterless.
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