Climate change increases lightning strikes globally, making lightning rods crucial for protection against deadly strikes.

When the charge difference becomes large enough, an electrical discharge, or lightning, is triggered to equalize it. This ...

As the sky darkens and the familiar rumble of thunder echoes across the horizon, farmers and fishermen working in open fields ...

The player, José Hugo De la Cruz Meza, was involved in a regional tournament game between two low-level local teams, C.D.

I’m talking about fulgurites, which can form whenever lightning discharges into the Earth. It’s likely that even if you’ve seen a fulgurite, you likely had no idea what it was. So what are ...

LIMA - A 39-year-old Peruvian footballer died after getting struck by lightning during a match on Nov 3, with four others ...

LAMWO - Some of the survivors of a deadly lightning strike that occurred inside Palabek Refugee Settlement in Uganda's northern district of Lamwo have been discharged from a health facility.

As of Monday evening, two players had been discharged from the hospital ... CNN has reached out for more information.

Similar branching, almost always directed downwards, is shown by lightning discharges between a thundercloud and the ground. For this reason it has been concluded that the direction of branching ...

Footage showed many players falling face first to the ground as lightning struck the field in the 22nd minute of the match ...

It has recently been shown 1 that in the lightning discharge a preliminary discharge from cloud to ground occurs before the passage of the main stroke in the reverse direction. The luminous ...