New international pollution laws may have helped researchers discover an unexpected way to stop lightning strikes.

After the regulations went into effect, lightning over shipping lanes dropped by half almost overnight, per newly published ...

The clouds at the high levels of the thunderstorm are made of ice crystals. The formation of ice in a cloud is an important element in the development of lightning. Those storms that fail to ...

In storm clouds, however, those additional droplets freeze into ice crystals, making the effects of aerosol particles on ...

That unplanned experiment demonstrates how thunderstorms, which can be 10 miles ... collisions between snowflake-like ice crystals and denser chunks of ice. When the charged, lightweight ice ...