Have you ever heard of—or even seen—red lightning? These are not animated characters but real atmospheric phenomena known as electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorms.

A technician climbs a tower to locate lightning strikes in the study area on Panama's Barro Colorado Island. Evan Gora / Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Getting struck by lightning might not ...

By Rebecca Dzombak When lightning strikes a tree in the tropics, the whole forest explodes. “At their most extreme, it kind of looks like a bomb went off,” said Evan Gora, a forest ecologist ...

Thunderstorms are exceedingly common; a staggering 3 million lightning strikes occur on Earth every day, according to the U.K. Met Office. But even though lightning is ubiquitous, scientists still ...

The "lightning crouch" is a position previously thought to reduce the risk of lightning strikes but is no longer recommended by experts. The National Weather Service and the National Lightning ...

Locations like skyscrapers, mountain peaks, and isolated trees act as natural lightning magnets, drawing repeated strikes during storms. As climate change fuels more severe weather, understanding ...

About 46,000 lightning strikes hit South Australia during storms on Monday, mainly in the state's south-east. A South Australian woman thought she was going to die when electricity from a ...

The “lightning crouch” might sound like a TikTok dance craze, but it’s not the kind of trend experts recommend as violent storms rampage through the Midwest and Southern United States ...