The fire burning in north-east Victoria near Walwa was so fierce it generated its own weather this afternoon, including a substantial pyrocumulonimbus cloud with lightning and thunder.

NASA’s Mars rover just picked up a strange sound no one expected. Scientists have confirmed what’s been suspected for decades ...

Lightning strikes happen when electricity builds up inside storm clouds and between the clouds and the ground. Inside a ...

Lightning strikes happen when electricity builds up inside storm clouds and between the clouds and the ground. Inside a ...

Lightning strikes are always a serious threat, no matter what season it is. For the last year, lightning strikes in the US ...

Lightning strikes are always a serious threat, no matter what season it is. For the last year, lightning strikes in the U.S.

Oklahoma has surpassed Florida as the nation's new lightning leader, recording about 73 flashes per square mile in 2025. This ...

Florida's distinction as the lightning capital of the U.S. is determined in part by the data Vaisala collects across the ...

The last decade has been the hottest decade in human history.  Driven by drought and extreme winds, a massive fire burned its ...

The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice. Florida would beg to disagree. The state is the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has transformed the Environmental Protection Agency in its first year, cutting ...

Scientists who study lightning say the more they can learn, the more society can work to protect people and property from ...