Lightning remains one of the deadliest weather hazards in the United States. In Georgia alone, lightning strikes claimed 30 ...

Getting zapped with millions of volts of electricity may not sound like a healthy activity, but for some trees, it is. A new study, published in New Phytologist, reports that some tropical tree ...

FEASTERVILLE, Pennsylvania -- A swim club is closed until further notice after a tree fell on a large tent, injuring nine people. Lower Southampton Township workers surveyed the damage at Dolphin Swim ...

Lightning researchers expect lightning could become more frequent as temperatures rise. Photo by Rick Lipscomb, courtesy NOAA. The age-old maxim says lightning never strikes the same place twice.

Lightning is an essential part of nature—balancing Earth’s electrical charge by transferring negative energy back to the ground. But it can also be fatal. That’s especially true in Florida, where ...

A home in the main street of Bright was destroyed overnight Saturday after a tree set on fire from a lightning strike toppled ...