Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has been supporting a wide array of research on geoengineering since 2007, ScienceInsider has learned.

For the last fifty years, China has maintained something of a secret weapon; the Weather Modification Department (WMD).

The prolonged drought that has plagued east China's Jiangxi Province for two months is relieved by heavy rains on Monday.

Biting cold and strong winds gripped Chinese provinces on Sunday as Beijing embraced its first snowfall this winter.