Ready to tackle a mountaineering challenge? In Peak, you and up to three friends find yourselves crash landed on a beach and stranded in the wilderness.

We’ve long understood the broad strokes of lightning, but the what kickstarts the process—and allows for some of its weirdest ...

Lightning caused six of the 13 fires burning in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest since late July, authorities reported ...

Two out-of-state hikers were hoisted to safety in a record-breaking rescue, Colorado rescuers said. On June 12, a team with ...

Most lightning fatalities occur during the summertime with a peak in July. Learn how you can get struck and how to avoid becoming a statistic.

Using new data modeling techniques, experts have concluded that lightning kills at least 320 million trees every year.

Midway through summer, volunteer search and rescue teams covering some of the mountain counties nearest to the Front Range are on a record pace when it comes to the missions they’ve conducted so far ...

One, which was led by the Alpine Rescue Team, was from the summit of 14,270-foot Torreys Peak after two men were struck by lightning. It is believed to be the state’s highest-ever helicopter rescue.

Eustis integrates lightning detection system in parks Parkgoers now have a way to check whether lightning is in the area before heading out to a park.

Based on their novel climate model, lightning manages to fatally injure 320 million trees per year—somewhere between 2.1 and 2.9 percent of annual plant biomass loss.

Lightning has a greater impact on forests than previously thought. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed new model calculations that, for the first time, estimate ...

A lightning strike is the likely cause of a fire that burned a home in Holly Springs just hours after lightning sparked a fire at a Wake Forest home.