Lightning strikes may kill hundreds of millions of trees every year, but one tropical tree has evolved to benefit from the ...

One species of tropical tree seems not only to survive lightning strikes but also to thrive because of them Being struck by ...

The pedunculate oaks typical of Leipzig's floodplain forest and other German oak forests are struggling to regenerate in the ...

Though being struck by lightning is usually bad, the tropical tree Dipteryx oleifera benefits. A strike kills other nearby trees and parasitic vines.

An author of a recent study about lightning's effect on trees in Panamanian forests says his team has gotten a large, ...