Every lightning strike begins as a silent exchange of charge — leaders reaching down, streamers rising up — until, in an ...

Strange lightning-strike rashes? Exploding trees? A lake that's a lightning magnet? These lightning facts will, well, shock ...

Earlier this week, several homes across Central Florida were damaged or destroyed by lightning-sparked fires. Here's what we ...

Lightning is hotter than the surface of the sun and kills up to 20 people in the United States each year, but how exactly ...

Scientists are working to understand the curious phenomena of red sprites, green ghosts and blue jets high above ...

Positive lightning strikes produce 1 billion volts, whereas negative strikes produce 300 million volts. Plus, positive lightning strikes last about 10 times longer.

Minister of Disaster Management, Girish Mahajan on Wednesday said in the Maharashtra Assembly that the government is taking ...

Startled 911 callers alerted police and medics to a lightning strike at the Northland High School field, describing how the ...

Getting inside a sturdy structure or at least an automobile is the best move when thunder roars, but just not being in water or being the tallest object around is a good start.

Two were critically injured by lightning at Northland High School; one was a teenage girl. Witnesses and emergency services ...

An author of a recent study about lightning's effect on trees in Panamanian forests says his team has gotten a large, positive response from people, including those who call the trees inspirational.