Guardian Australia · Science

Thunderstruck: what does the future hold for lightning?

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Humans have always been awed by the power and beauty of lightning. How does the experience and understanding of it change in a warming world?In a rock shelter in Kakadu national park in the north of Australia is an image of a being the Bininj people call Namarrkon. His flesh bleached away to reveal the bones beneath…

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