Coronae glow on the tips of spruce needles, induced by charged metal plates in a laboratory. (William Brune) For the first time, meteorologists have glimpsed the tiny bursts of ultraviolet light ...

Tree leaves are found to emit tiny electrical sparks during thunderstorms, reshaping how we understand forest and storm ...

Because the sparking happens so uniformly across the branches they observed, the team suspects the phenomenon scales up massively. Tens to hundreds of leaves on every treetop under a thunderstorm ...

(KRON) — A bolt of lightning struck a beloved redwood tree next to a Santa Rosa preschool Tuesday while thunderstorms rolled through the region. Lightning ripped through the large tree’s trunk before ...

Pennsylvania State University researchers have captured the first outdoor proof that trees produce faint ultraviolet glows ...

FEASTERVILLE, Pennsylvania -- A swim club is closed until further notice after a tree fell on a large tent, injuring nine people. Lower Southampton Township workers surveyed the damage at Dolphin Swim ...

Sunday’s rain didn’t put a damper on tree lightning events as the one in Middlefield went through with no issues. They’re also prepared for snow that’s coming soon. The sounds of cheers filled the air ...

We’ve looked at lightning issues before. Please see “Ground strikes and lightning protection of buried cables.” This headline below was found online at the URL hyperlinked here. This ABC NY article ...