Technician Cesar Gutierrez climbs a tower to detect and locate lightning strikes in the study area. After detection, drones and on-the-ground teams monitor the strike’s impacts. Getting zapped ...

Technician Cesar Gutierrez climbs a tower to detect and locate lightning strikes in the study area. After detection, drones and on-the-ground teams monitor the strike’s impacts. Credit: Evan Gora / ...

Lightning kills hundreds of millions of trees per year. But in 2015, while working in Panama, Gora and his colleagues came across a Dipteryx oleifera tree that had survived a strike with little ...

Things took a more frightening turn after, all of a sudden, the victim lost “all feeling” in her limbs.” “I couldn’t move, not even an inch,” recounted the distraught woman, who asked her roommate to ...

An Everett home was struck by lightning on Wednesday during the thunderstorms, causing the roof to catch fire with a family ...

A young woman has detailed the one-in-a-million experience of being struck by lightning - which initially left her struggling to breathe, move or speak. Luckily, she survived with minimal ...

The outlet next to the computer had melted. Nichols’ neighbor up the street, David Peterson, was in his kitchen when the lightning struck. “The whole kitchen lit up,” Peterson said.

Lightning resistance appears to offer a competitive advantage. Lightning and trees don’t usually mix. The intense electrical charge delivered by a lightning strike can obliterate most foliage ...

Lightning kills hundreds of millions of trees per year. But in 2015, while working in Panama, Gora and his colleagues came across a Dipteryx oleifera tree that had survived a strike with little ...

A WOMAN who was struck by lightning and lived to tell the tale has revealed how it made her eyes change colour. Carly Electric, as she’s known, has always been fascinated with lightning ...

LTFR said “initial reports indicate the fire may have been caused by a lightning strike.” Everyone was evacuated from the home and no injuries were reported. The department also said a family ...