When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Scientists discover trees in the lowland rainforests of Panama that use lightning strikes to ...

DENVER - In a game of weather Rochambeau, lightning beats tree every time. Lightning struck the West Washington Park tree sometime during Wednesday evening's thunderstorm. The lightning peeled a strip ...

Our planet is crackling with more electrical energy than ever before. Scientists worldwide are documenting an alarming trend ...

Lightning is one of nature's most destructive forces, responsible for killing millions of trees every year. But in the rainforests of Panama, one species has flipped that danger into a powerful ...

For trees, lightning strikes are the great leveller. Stick your neck out by growing taller than the rest, and you risk getting zapped into oblivion. Hundreds of millions of trees suffer this fate ...

New research suggests getting struck by lightning might be beneficial for Dipteryx oleifera trees. © Left: Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Right: wirestock via ...

Saturday morning around 8 a.m., a lightning bolt struck a tree in the Canfield Village Green causing a tree to explode. The tree is a complete loss and the explosion even caused damage to the Canfield ...

While lightning is a fascinating phenomenon, it's also infamous in its capacity for destruction and the danger it poses to life. Each year, lightning claims hundreds of millions of trees worldwide, ...

Lightning from this week’s severe storms struck a large tree in Ohio, creating an eerie-looking result as the tree burned from the inside. Firefighters were called early Tuesday to the tree fire in ...

A monsoonal weather pattern over Southern California resulted lightning, thunder and scattered showers across San Diego County on Saturday night and Sunday morning. “Widely scattered T-storms are ...

LAMAR COUNTY, Miss. (WDAM) - Recently the Pine Belt has been battling triple digit temperatures. But Mississippi summer weather patterns also bring in lots of rain and everything that comes with it. A ...