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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 ...

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Volunteers in Florida, a state that typically receives 33 lightning strikes per square mile each ... standards of the Lightning Protection and Grounding Institute or the National Fire Protection ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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.