How is lightning initiated in thunderclouds? This is difficult to answer – how do you measure electric fields inside large, dangerously charged clouds? It was discovered, more or less by coincidence, ...

How is lightning initiated in thunderclouds? This is difficult to answer—how do you measure electric fields inside large, dangerously charged clouds? It was discovered, more or less by coincidence, ...

When thinking about wildfires, we often think about its impact on our land, community and neighbors. But there is something else to consider: the atmosphere. PyroCbs, short for pyrocumulonimbus clouds ...

This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last month, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory held a very 2021 press conference, in ...

In the recent edition of Nature, groundbreaking results about the gamma-ray emissions produced during thunderstorms are presented. Overall, these findings reveal that gamma-ray emission from ...

The wildfires currently tearing through Australia aren’t just unprecedented—they’re catastrophic, as one fire researcher put it. Climate change and fierce heat waves have dried the landscape into ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When Benjamin Franklin tied a key to a kite and flew it into a lightning storm, he briefly became ...

Intense fires have the power to generate dirty thunderclouds that may be influencing the climate, scientists have discovered. Like volcanoes, the dirty, fire-induced thunderstorms, or pyrocumulonimbus ...

A detector fitted on an airplane picked up a signature spike in photons that does not fit any known source of antiparticles When Joseph Dwyer’s aeroplane took a wrong turn into a thundercloud, the ...

How is lightning initiated in thunderclouds? This is difficult to answer -- how do you measure electric fields inside large, dangerously charged clouds? It was discovered, more or less by coincidence, ...