For two decades, a bold and promising experiment sought to answer a wild question: Could scientists artificially weaken hurricanes before they bring devastation to U.S. shores? The short answer was no ...

U.S. scientists sent military aircraft into Hurricane Debbie in August 1969 and dropped burning silver iodide into the storm’s eyewall in an attempt to weaken its strongest winds. The first round of ...

Humans haven’t quite figured out how to control the weather—but it’s not for lack of trying. In fact, between the 1940s and the early 1970s, the United States government developed Project Cirrus and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Project STORMFURY researchers seeded tropical storm Dorothy over the eastern Caribbean in 1970 and believed they had succeeded.

Since man cannot muster anything approaching the energy of a hurricane, and so has no hope of overcoming the storm by force, Stormfury attempts to use the giant’s own energy against it…. Last week, ...

An ambitious project to weaken or divert hurricanes generated decades of suspicion and disagreement. What did we learn – and will it ever be revived? As a grad student in the 1960s, Joe Golden flew on ...