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Lightning Activity in the European Eastern Alps

Lightning activity in the European Eastern Alps has undergone significant changes between the 1980s and the 2010s, serving as an indicator of the climate crisis.  Changing Lightning Activity...

June 23, 2023

What is Upward Lightning?

The phenomenon of upward lightning, also known as upward flashes, has long been a fascinating sight for scientists and observers alike. Recently, Brazilian researchers succeeded in capturing high-speed...

April 1, 2023

Variation of lightning-ignited wildfire patterns under climate change

The research paper titled ‘Variation of lightning-ignited wildfire patterns under climate change’ states that increasing global temperatures could result in more occurrences of “hot lightning” strikes around the...

March 10, 2023

Discovery of New Quasicrystal

A US scientist recently discovered quasicrystals. The major difference between an ordinary crystal and a quasi-crystal is that the atomic patterns in quasi-crystals do not repeat themselves as...

February 15, 2023

Climate Hazards and Vulnerability Atlas of India

The scientists of CRS have created a climate hazards and vulnerability atlas of India. CRS is Climate Research and Services and it operates under India Meteorological Department (IMD)....

January 19, 2022

2020 India Lightning Report: Highlights

Compared to 2019, there was a 22.6% increase in lightning in India last year. This is according to Earth Networks ‘2020 India Lightning Report’. Highlights of the report...

July 19, 2021

Bihar had maximum deaths due to lightning strikes since 2019

India’s second annual Lightning Report was recently published. According to it, lightning in India has become the biggest cause of death by forces of nature. Highlights On July...

July 13, 2021

Assam Elephants Death-Report indicates Lighting

Around eighteen Asian elephants died in Nagaon district of Assam recently. It is a proposed reserve forest. Prior to this, such mass death of elephants occurred in 2001....

May 15, 2021

IMD releases a report titled ‘Mid-Monsoon 2019 Lightning’

The report titled ‘Mid-Monsoon 2019 Lightning’ has been prepared by Climate Resilient Observing Systems Promotion Council (CROSPC), a research body of the India Meteorological Department (IMD). It’s a...

September 7, 2019

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