New international pollution laws may have helped researchers discover an unexpected way to stop lightning strikes.

After the regulations went into effect, lightning over shipping lanes dropped by half almost overnight, per newly published ...

Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory have discovered that cosmic-ray showers seem to play a pivotal role in ...

The International Space Station has captured a photo of what in known as "Earth's tallest lightning". This form of lighting, known as a gigantic jet, is a type of discharge that occurs between ...

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Western Oregon was hit with 180 cloud-to-ground lighting strikes and saw 560 cloud-to cloud lightning flashes Monday, according to the National Weather Service. Lightning recorded in Western ...

In the U.S., there are typically 20-25 million cloud-to-ground lightning flashes each year. Knowing the dangers of lightning ...

Clouds tend to clear up in the sky after a while but that's not true for On's aptly named running sneakers, which have ...

Scientists have proposed a number of hypotheses to explain the correlation between lightning and pollution, all of which revolve around the crux of electrifying a cloud: collisions between ...

BOM senior meteorologist Miriam Bradbury said there was a simple reason why lightning would sometimes strike other clouds rather than the ground. "It all comes down to the lightning wanting to ...