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 ...

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, ...

Neutralizing a hurricane as it barrels over the ocean might seem like a dumb idea, but if we refused to indulge seemingly dumb ideas, would we ever have, you know, gone to the Moon, that kind of thing ...

WHO knew that Fidel Castro regarded the Fraser government's flirtation with an ill-fated experiment in the tropical cyclone seeding business as an attempt to use the weather as a weapon. In 1980 ...

I'm curious if the idea of artificially altering hurricanes' strength has any scientific validity. I seem to recall that the Navy gave it a try in the '70s, but that's based on hazy memories of ...