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fromFast Company
2 months ago

The hardest startup in America

Augustus Doricko, founder and CEO of cloud-seeding startup Rainmaker, surveys the sky from a sunbaked hillside 5 miles from Utah's Great Salt Lake. On this balmy Sunday afternoon in late September, the lake is calm, but its serenity belies a potentially catastrophic problem: The Great Salt Lake is shrinking-and is at risk of disappearing altogether. At its peak 40 years ago, the lake covered 2,300 square miles; today, more than 800 square miles of lake bed are exposed.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months ago

Climate crisis or a warning from God? Iranians desperate for answers as water dries up

Iran faces a severe nationwide water crisis with record low rainfall, depleted reservoirs, cloud seeding efforts, prayer rituals, and increasing bottled-water shortages and restrictions.
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fromNature
3 months ago

Daily briefing: Custom-made gene-editing therapy for children to enter clinical trial

Personalized CRISPR base-editing therapy that rescued an infant will enter a clinical trial for at least five more children.
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fromTechCrunch
5 months ago

Pilot union urges FAA to reject Rainmaker's drone cloud-seeding plan | TechCrunch

Airline pilots union urges FAA to deny Rainmaker's request to deploy cloud-seeding flares on small drones due to significant safety and environmental concerns.
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fromTechCrunch
7 months ago

Exclusive: Rainmaker partners with Atmo to squeeze more rain from clouds | TechCrunch

Rainmaker partners with Atmo to enhance cloud seeding through weather data analytics and AI technology.
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