Our eyes deceive us when lightning strikes like a giant spark cracking the sky in two. That giant spark is only as big around as a golf ball. Like everything else in nature, it happens for a reason.

Lightning is an essential part of nature—balancing Earth’s electrical charge by transferring negative energy back to the ground. But it can also be fatal.

At least 1 person struck by lightning on Humphreys Peak Coconino County Sheriff’s deputies launched a rescue operation on Humphreys Peak after a lightning strike hit one person. CCSO is also ...

This January, lightning struck and killed a 103-year-old grandmother while she was simply handling utensils in her kitchen hut in eastern Zimbabwe. Her tragic death is a grim, personal reminder of a ...

Dipteryx oleifera trees not only survive lightning strikes, they grow taller, lose rivals, and reproduce more successfully.

Colton Gauge Honeycutt, 17, was in a deeer stand off Robert Welch Road near Weldon when he was killed by a lightning strike, the Union Parish Sheriff’s Office says ...

Coconino County Sheriff’s deputies launched a rescue operation on Humphreys Peak after a lightning strike hit one person. CCSO is also investigating if a second person was injured. 5 arrested in ...