A new study puts a price tag on forest-generated rainfall, making the economic case for protecting tropical forests as deforestation rises.
Scientists realized that the rain-making services of tropical forests have long been taken for granted, so they stepped ...
The biotic pump theory was developed by scientists Anastassia Makarieva and the late Victor Gorshkov, who were Russian theoretical physicists working for the Theoretical Physics Division of the ...
The dream of rain making is as old as man. For centuries, Chinese suppliants, barechested, short-trousered, and wearing bands of green grass about their heads, have paraded with their dragons and ...
The snowpack in the Mountain West this year is at just a small fraction of its normal level. In fact, 2013 was the driest year ever recorded in many parts of California, and there's little relief in ...