bringing eerily beautiful skies and lightning strikes. “It was the loudest thing I’ve ever heard,” Brian McGlynn, whose property on Heron Lane off of Yacht Haven was struck during the storm ...

The tonka bean tree can survive a lightning strike, and thrive. Lightning strikes may kill untold numbers of trees every year, but one tropical species has evolved to benefit from the sudden jolts ...

THE country has been hit by around 400 lightning strikes in just a day. Heavy rain, hail and thunder thrashed southern England and the East Midlands on Saturday. The heavy rainfall caused some ...

Media reports say that a lightning strike in western Japan has injured five students at a school playground, including one who remains unconscious TOKYO -- A lightning strike in western Japan ...

A few other large species also survived the strikes and might have benefitted as well, but lightning had not struck enough of these species for the researchers to be certain. Many of the trees ...

Australian Olympic legend Libby Trickett is celebrating a new gold medal moment – the arrival of her fifth child. And the young one's name is an absolute zinger. . .

SEATTLE — Thunderstorms that progressed slowly over the western Washington region Wednesday evening produced lightning strikes area-wide. Some even wreaked havoc on homes and public transportation.

A new study, published in New Phytologist, reports that some tropical tree species are not only able to tolerate lightning strikes, but benefit from them. The trees may have even evolved to act as ...