San Antonio's location, in a wide bay with no natural defenses, leaves it particularly vulnerable to storm surges, said ...

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Study discovered that tiny electrical sparks, called microlightning, form when water droplets collide. These can create ...

Life on Earth may not have begun with a big lightning strike in the ocean, as scientists once thought. Instead, tiny electric sparks from crashing waves and waterfalls—called “microlightning”—might ...

A year after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed, Baltimore is grappling with a wide range of issues related to the ...

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A Stanford study shows that electrical charges in sprays of water can cause chemical reactions that form organic molecules from inorganic materials. The findings provide evidence that microlightning ...

The Sonoma County Sheriff's Department says first responders located the body of a man Sunday morning who was standing on rocks near the shore when he got swept into the ocean by a crashing wave.

Once the ocean could no longer be held at bay ... home’s precarious perch in the winter of 2019. A big storm sent waves crashing into their seawall, through their deck and into their first ...