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International Space Station detects blue ‘jets’ of lightning shooting upwards from thunder clouds that could influence greenhouse gas concentrations in Earth’s atmosphere The phenomenon was detected by the European Space Agency’s ASIM device This is a collection of cameras, photometers and an X-ray/gamma ray detector The blue jet was seen coming from a cloud above the … Read more
Shocking footage: Moment man is struck by lightning in terrifying video captured on his own mobile phone Jose Omar de Oliveira, known as Mazinho was filming during a lightening storm He and his friend Claudio Araujo Resende were playing with a radio at the time He said he and his friend were lucky to escape … Read more
A Boeing 737 passenger jet with 62 people onboard is believed to have crashed into the sea after plummeting 10,000 feet shortly following takeoff from Jakarta, with witnesses claiming they heard two explosions. The Sriwijaya Air plane took off from Soekarno-Hatta international airport on Saturday at 1.56pm for a 90-minute flight over the Java Sea between Jakarta and … Read more
Clash of nature’s titans: Astonishing moment volcanic ash cloud is blasted by a bolt of lightning Sakurajima, an active volcano in Japan, erupted this week with a column of ash rising into the night sky A lightning storm appeared above the crater in a spellbinding but poorly-understood volcanic phenomenon Scientists believe the lightning may be … Read more
What a bright spark! Husband’s lightning reflexes save the day when flaming log tumbles out of fireplace onto family’s living room floor The video shows a woman sitting on a rug in her living room in Buford, Georgia Woman is see to chat to her sister and her husband on the floor by the fireplace … Read more
Incredible opalised dinosaur teeth shed light on how three species of huge sauropods coexisted in outback Australia Fossilised dinosaur teeth were found at Lightning Ridge, in north-west NSW Researchers said the area has yielded a rich bounty of fossils over the years Three sauropod species are believed to have co-existed in the area at the time … Read more
The knobby ‘horns’ on top of a giraffe’s head may act like a dangerous lightning rod, according to a conservation scientist in South Africa. Two female giraffes were found dead at Rockwood wildlife reserve in Northern Cape after a sudden lightning storm in February. When rangers investigated, they found that one of the older giraffe’s … Read more
Three massive wildfires as raging in Northern California after they were ignited by more than 13,000 lightning strikes since mid-August, scorching through 1,875 square miles of land and killing seven people. On Monday firefighters had a brief respite from the flames as humidity rose, but the state is still reeling from dozens of blazes including … Read more
About two dozen large wildfires are blazing across the state California forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate as Gov. Gavin Newsom orders a state of emergency. At least 23 massive fires, some triggered by lightning strikes and fueled by a historic heat wave and high winds, stretch from Napa, Sonoma, San Mateo and … Read more
Bolt from the blue: Video captures lightning striking a palm tree – despite clear skies above in Florida The lightning struck downwards into a tree in suburban Tampa in daylight The odd footage was captured from the inside of a Florida man’s car An eruption of thunder can be heard in the video before the … Read more