Some stories sound exaggerated until you discover every detail is documented. Roy Cleveland Sullivan lived one of those lives. Born in rural Virginia in 1912, he grew up near the mountains he would ...

Lightning develops within thunderstorms when collisions between ice particles and water droplets separate electrical charges ...

Students in Environmental Journalism class at the UF College of Journalism and Communications spent their semester reporting on the science, risks and human stories of lightning across Florida, the ...

You are 15 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to win a lottery jackpot in the United States. Worse yet, being struck by lighting is a one-in-a-million chance given there were only 280 ...

Dehradun: Lightning -- long seen as a routine monsoon hazard -- has emerged as India's \"deadliest natural disaster\" mainly ...