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multiple bolts of lightning in a purple sky, framed by a porch
October 8, 2020

White Lightning

A dramatic storm means rainfall will soon make its way into the Ogallala Aquifer in Nebraska. The aquifer supplies irrigation for crops and drinking water for millions of people from South Dakota to the Texas Panhandle.
Photograph by Jim Richardson, Nat Geo Image Collection

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