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

Before a discovery in a Panamanian rainforest, “it seemed impossible that lightning could be a good thing for the trees,” a ...

Lightning is usually seen as a harbinger of destruction in forests, killing or damaging trees in their blasts. But in the ...

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

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

Heavy rain, hailstorm and snowfall wreaked havoc in the high-altitude areas of the Dhauladhar hills on Friday evening. Reports confirmed that lightning struck a shepherds’ camp near Manai, 20 km north ...

The Tonka bean tree conducts electricity so well that lightning just flows through it, leaving the tree unharmed. But the ...

Some Lake Bluff residents suffered property damage Wednesday morning after a tree was struck by lightning, village officials ...

The tonka bean tree, scientifically known as Dipteryx oleifera, has developed the ability to not only survive strikes but also to transfer the electricity from lightning to its “enemies” and the ...

The lightning crouch, a baseball-catcher-like stance some cite as a safeguard against lightning strikes, offers no meaningful ...

Chatra: Four people died, and one sustained severe burn injuries after lightning struck in Hazaribag, followed by incessant rain.

Within the first five minutes, Elanga, a former Manchester United player, picked up the ball deep in his own half. What happened next was nothing short of extraordinary. Elanga unleashed his speed and ...