For as long as people have watched storms roll across the sky, lightning has inspired awe and fear. You can see the flash and ...

BENGALURU: Lightning does more than light up the sky and shake the ground. A new India-wide study shows that powerful ...

A recent India-wide study reveals that powerful lightning strikes can temporarily disturb the ionosphere, affecting the accuracy of satellite navigation and radio communication.

Researchers have published a new method of guiding lightning strikes using a laser. And another team of researchers developed a new test that uses dna as bait for respiratory viruses like COVID-19.

Multi-ignition wildfires are not overly common. But when individual fires do converge, the consequences can be catastrophic.

Around 2,500 people die in lightning strikes around India each year. — © AFP Around 2,500 people die in lightning strikes around India each year. — © AFP By ...

When thunder roars, head indoors! Lightning is New Mexico’s deadliest weather threat, and since 1959, 90 people have died as a result of a lightning strike. Chief Meteorologist Grant Tosterud and KRQE ...

Thunderstorms are often also accompanied by heightened turbulence, which can be uncomfortable and frightening for passengers, ...

Cuts in sulfur emissions from oceangoing vessels have been tied to a reduction in lightning stroke density along heavily ...

Students in Environmental Journalism class at the UF College of Journalism and Communications spent their semester reporting on the science, risks and human stories of lightning across Florida, the ...

Mini-lightning strikes created by whirling dust devils on Mars have been detected accidentally by the microphone on board the Perseverance rover. The chance discovery is direct evidence of a form of ...