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Arctic lightning has tripled since 2010, thanks to rapid warming

Lightning is still relatively rare in the Arctic, but it's getting much more common.

By Yereth Rosen April 1, 2021
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In a single decade, summer lightning tripled across the Arctic, a change directly attributed to rapid Arctic warming, a new scientific paper reports.

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