Colin Price

A glacial lake, Jokulsarlon is a glacial lagoon, Vatnajokull National Park in southeast Iceland, blue water speckled with ice melting from the Breidamerkurjokull glacier. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Firecrackers and thunder: Lightning storms accelerate the rate of ice melting in the North Pole

An international study with the participation of Tel Aviv University states: Global warming leads to lightning storms in the North Pole, which further accelerate the process of melting the ice - in a cycle of repeated feeding
Lightning storms over the jungle in Costa Rica. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The rainforests are in danger due to the reduction of thunderstorms

Deforestation in the Amazon may reduce the amount of thunderstorms and harm the rainforest that provides us with oxygen
Dr. Ilan Koren and Dr. Orit Altertz

The connection between dust and lightning

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Clouds over Brazil. Photo: Ilan Koren, Weizmann Institute

The lightning storms over the jungles in the Amazon are very sensitive to the smoke rising from the forest fires initiated in the area

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Lightning activity on the African continent reveals the solar cycle

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

An Israeli study published in Nature: the strength of a hurricane can be predicted by lightning activity

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Simultaneous photography from Tel Aviv and Israel made it possible to build a XNUMXD model of giant birthday cake-like elves

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