Nichols’ neighbor up the street, David Peterson, was in his kitchen when the lightning struck ... pushed out a window — though the glass didn’t shatter — and left deep char marks ...

An Everett home was struck by lightning on Wednesday ... the office and there was a burning hole that was fire. Grabbed a glass of water and threw it at it and we were like ‘we gotta get ...

Andy and Lateisha Wilkinson of rural Bollinger County recount their experience surviving a March 14 tornado in Bollinger ...

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Unlike the packed sands of more touristy destinations, Bandon’s beaches offer space to breathe, to think, to exist without ...

The site was a longtime quarry where companies mined for marl, an earthy, sand-like substance that can be used as fertilizer and in water filtration. When workers mining the quarry hit fossils ...

Getting zapped with millions of volts of electricity may not sound like a healthy activity, but for some trees, it is. A new ...

Some trees don’t just survive lightning – they thrive on it. Scientists studying Panama’s tropical forests have discovered that Dipteryx oleifera trees often benefit from lightning strikes that ...

Being struck by lightning is something humans generally try to avoid. But for at least one tropical tree species, this ...