A food waste recycling plant that suffered a major gas explosion when it was hit by lightning has had a proposal to improve ...

The odds of being hit by lightning in any given year are less than one in a million, but one expert says that number may be ...

Lightning strikes are some of the most awesome demonstrations of power on Earth, and the results can range from mild to destructive.

Even if only a small fraction of the total lightning current enters the wires, they may be too small to conduct the thousands of amperes involved and thus be melted or vaporized. The accompanying ...

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The unsettled weather that has brought thunder and lightning since late July has generated more than 3,300 lightning strikes in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest — and nearly 32,000 across strikes ...

When lightning strikes, wildfire can follow. We saw that this week in the Tahoe region, with over 1,500 reported lighning strikes sparkingEmail reporter Ben Ma ...

A timelapse video shared on social media shows thousands of lightning strikes bombarding California on Tuesday, resulting in ...

The drier the storm and the drier the vegetation, the more likely lightning strikes are to spark wildfires, according to the ...