Ginger Strand

Writer Ginger Strand explains cloud-seeding, the process of spraying silver iodide into clouds to make it rain. Her article “Silver-Lining Playbook” appears in the Fall 2013 edition of On Earth magazine. She's joined by Jeff Tilley, Desert Research Institute’s director of weather modification.

Find out how Niagara Falls went from being a small town with a big waterfall, to a major tourist attraction and even an environmental disaster. Ginger Strand’s new book is Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies.