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Tonka Bean Trees Attract Lightning to Win the Rainforest Arms Race—And Science Thinks That’s Electrifying

Lightning is one of the leading natural causes of tree death in tropical forests. The raw voltage and heat from a strike can instantly boil sap, splinter wood, and reduce a once-living organism to charcoal. But not tonka trees.

Will there be a wildfire in Canada? Our phone data can help make the prediction

Cell phone data can help predict forest fires in Canada and California

Amazon deforestation is killing the lungs of the earth

For the first time scientists have determined that due to the ongoing deforestation in the Amazon basin in recent decades, the number of thunderstorms and rain in the region has decreased significantly, and the area over which they occur has shrunk.

We’re all electric as lightning

5G voodoo? A new study finds that the electrical activity in the cells of living creatures mirrors the electrical fields in nature. Seems we all like lightning, and evolved with the sun. 

Storm mappers chase after patterns for climate change

The Doomsday Clock, which measures the likelihood of global catastrophe, last month ticked a minute closer to "midnight" —...

Radio Waves Carry News of Climate Change

The ionosphere, one of the regions of the upper atmosphere, plays an important role in global communications. Ionized by...

Experts: Tel Aviv Will Flood Again

Tel Aviv University professors tell Green Prophet that it's just a matter of time: Tel Aviv will flood again. It's...

Arab Scientists Model Red Sea and Persian Gulf to Stop Flash Floods

Saudi researchers develop a new model for predicting flash floods in the Middle East. They cripple cities like Jeddah...

"Slash and Burn" Clouds in Amazon May Have Telling Consequences for Volcano Ash

Prof. Colin Price suggests link between volcanic ash, cloud formation and global weather patterns. Native Americans used smoke signals...

How lightning in Africa takes the pulse of the sun

Could Prof. Colin Price's new discovery become a new tool for monitoring the effects of climate change? Sunspots, which...

Counting on Lightning to Predict Hurricane Intensity

Hurricanes are Earth's most deadly storms, causing tremendous devastation and loss of life around the globe every year. ...

The flash before the flood

Flash floods are the most common natural disaster in the United States, and a big killer in the Middle...