Here's everything you need to know about the NFL postseason format: Fourteen teams will make the NFL playoffs — seven from both the NFC and AFC. This is an increase over the previous format, which had 12 teams. This is broken out with four division winners in each conference as well as three wild-card teams.

Heavy rain from a persistent atmospheric river pattern continues to impact California this week. Here's what's causing it.

On Tuesday, the United Arab Emirates was hit with a year and a half of rain in a single day, leaving much of Dubai underwater. Now, experts have questioned whether the desert city's sudden deluge might have been caused by climate meddling. Since the ...

Garrett Cammans and his brothers sometimes don't talk about their toughest moments on the job in the cloud seeding business, like the time when one of them got stuck in deep mountain snow and had to hike out alone in the dark. "They're going out into some ...

The Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources reviewed cloud seeding experiments as a potential solution to the country's water scarcity issues.

Cloud seeding involves artificially generating rain by implanting clouds with particles. In the UAE, silver iodide is often used as the cloud-bursting catalyst (a yellow substance you might have handled in science class now and again).

As Dubai experiences its worst floods on record, many have been shocked to discover that the country has been working to control the weather for decades. Since the early 1990s, the UAE has used a technique called cloud seeding to trigger rain to fall ...

Cloud-seeding programs to boost both rain and snowfall are now under way in Texas, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, New Mexico and California. For West Texas farmer Steve Williams, the benefits of occasional extra rainfall is worth the minimal amount he pays ...

There is a lot at stake in Week 18, and we're making our game picks and score predictions for every game with major playoff implications.