New research shows lightning-sparked wildfires will rise across the western U.S. as climate change fuels hotter, drier ...

The dramatic moment a lightning bolt hit a tree in a Wisconsin backyard, sending bits flying and starting a fire, was caught ...

Weather patterns channeling moisture into the state have led to an abundance of lightning strikes that have ignited hundreds ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. As dozens of wildfires burn across California after a remarkable outbreak of dry lightning, a new study warns that a ...

Though people spark the vast majority of wildfires, lightning strikes have caused some of California’s biggest and longest-lasting blazes — accounting for more than a third of the area burned in ...

Struck by lightning during a roaring thunderstorm 10 years ago, an ancient pine tree in Bolivia’s capital of La Paz is thriving.

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