To get a longer term picture of the effect of lightning strikes on tonka bean trees and their neighbors, the team analyzed decades' worth of tree plot records. "Over those 40 years, there's a ...

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 ...

By Rebecca Dzombak When lightning strikes a tree in the tropics, the whole forest explodes. “At their most extreme, it kind of looks like a bomb went off,” said Evan Gora, a forest ecologist ...

New research suggests getting struck by lightning ... tropical tree with a large crown and native to Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama—not only tolerates lightning strikes but actually ...

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 ...

“Any tree that gets close essentially gets electrocuted,” says Gora to Erik Stokstad at Science. Lightning strikes also reduced the number of parasitic vines, called lianas, on the almendros ...

The split second lightning flash was captured on video at a university in north India. The footage shows the group huddled together under a tree as they desperately seek shelter from the pouring rain.

Lightning strikes may kill untold numbers of trees every year, but one tropical species has evolved to benefit from the sudden jolts of electricity. The tonka bean tree, aka Dipteryx oleifera ...

It's fascinating being around it and being like, this is probably the 10th lightning strike this tree has had. We estimate it's five [strikes] on average. But, you know, some of them obviously ...

Lightning strikes may kill untold numbers of trees every year, but one tropical species has evolved to benefit from the sudden jolts of electricity. The tonka bean tree, aka Dipteryx oleifera, has ...