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, ...

The dance of electrical charges high above us is more complex than most people realize. While we typically think of lightning ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...