When thinking about wildfires, we often think about its impact on our land, community and neighbors. But there is something else to consider: the atmosphere. PyroCbs, short for pyrocumulonimbus clouds ...
Though scientists have long understood how lightning strikes, the precise atmospheric events that trigger it within thunderclouds have remained a perplexing mystery. The mystery may now be solved, ...
A Penn State-led research team has unraveled the long-standing mystery of how lightning begins inside thunderclouds. Their findings offer the first quantitative, physics-based explanation for ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Last week, the US Naval Research Laboratory held a very 2021 press conference, in ...
The wildfires currently tearing through Australia aren’t just unprecedented—they’re catastrophic, as one fire researcher put it. Climate change and fierce heat waves have dried the landscape into ...
A lightning researcher has discovered that during thunderstorms, giant natural particle accelerators can form 40 km above the surface of the Earth. A lightning researcher at the University of Bath has ...
When thinking about wildfires, we often think about its impact on our land, community and neighbors. But there is something else to consider: the atmosphere. PyroCbs, short for pyrocumulonimbus clouds ...