Arctic lightning tripled in a decade, study says

Arctic lightning strikes tripled between 2010-2020 according to a study out Monday. This correlates suspiciously well with another trend: a rise in global temperature averages. The World’s Anna Kusmer reports that scientists are still trying to understand the complex relationship between lightning and the changing climate.

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