Recent advances in capturing heat and turning it into electricity may suggest a way to harvest lightning's mega-heat. While ...

Lightning strikes and header fires have burnt out thousands of hectares of farming land just as harvest begins. See the latest. The Rural Fire Service is urging farmers to be vigilant and keep an ...

Some of those killed were farmers struck by lightning while harvesting wheat, authorities said. Images online show swathes of farmland engulfed by rainwater. Flash floods have also disrupted power ...