The almendro (Dipteryx oleifera) is a massive rainforest tree native to Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, ...

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

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

Hundreds of millions of trees die from lightning strikes worldwide every year, and as the climate changes, that number is ...

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

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While working in Panama in 2015, Evan Gorra, a forest ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in the US, found a tree that had survived a lightning strike with little damage.

Matthew Terrell Collins Sr., 58, and Matthew Terrell Collins Jr., 29, were crushed when a tree fell on their golf cart at the ...

The tonka bean tree (Dipteryx oleifera) may actually benefit from being struck by lightning, according to a new study. Scientists discovered that these trees not only survive these electrical ...

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

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A tropical tree species in Panama’s lowland rainforest appears to benefit from lightning strikes by surviving unscathed while nearby vegetation is destroyed, a new study has ...