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, ...

As so often happens in science, when Andrea Stöllner's experiments didn't work as expected, they led her to something even ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

With more than 600 square miles burned so far, the Park Fire is already one of California’s biggest wildfires ever — and it’s still far from contained. Driven by strong winds, the blaze has chewed ...

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 ...

New research links cloud top appearance to lightning during a snowstorm. This is an Inside Science story. On Valentine's weekend in 2015, winter storm Neptune pummeled Boston. Weather Channel ...

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, ...