In India, what wreaks more havoc than floods and heat? Lightning.
In a small village in Jharkhand, India, 36 children were playing cricket when the skies turned gray and thunder rolled. Eight scrambled into a nearby culvert, and the rest took refuge under a tree. That tree was struck by lightning in minutes.
Many survived that night, but three of the children and their teacher joined the 2,641 Indians killed by lightning in 2015. To this day, lightning claims roughly 3,000 lives every year in India – more than any other weather event.
Activists and scientists throughout India have been sounding the alarm over this oft-ignored hazard,
