For as long as people have watched storms roll across the sky, lightning has inspired awe and fear. You can see the flash and ...

An unusually strong lightning strike disabled a radar in Westland, New Zealand, on Sept. 18. MetService New Zealand posted a photo of the destroyed radar dome on Facebook, saying that repairs will ...

Earlier this week, several homes across Central Florida were damaged or destroyed by lightning-sparked fires. Florida’s lightning is louder, stronger and more dangerous this week. The Sunshine State ...

Lightning strikes kill millions of trees each year — but it turns out that some large tropical trees can not only survive a strike, but also benefit from its effects, according to a recent study. The ...