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

While studying the impact of lightning on rainforests in Panama, a team of researchers discovered that one species of tree ...

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

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

A Dipteryx oleifera tree just after being struck by lightning in 2019 ( top) versus two years later ( bottom ). The tree ...

The almendro tree may have evolved to attract lightning, which helps clear more space for it to grow, according to new ...

Getting zapped with millions of volts of electricity may not sound like a healthy activity, but for some trees, it is. A new ...

A major new study has revealed that tropical forests across the Americas are not adapting quickly enough to climate change, ...

Dipteryx trees in Panama survive lightning strikes, grow taller, lose rivals, and reproduce more successfully.

A species of old-growth tree that is totally new to science has been hiding out in a narrow slice of mountain rainforest in ...

Yams are considered one of the world’s most important crops. A starchy, nutrient-rich root vegetable of the genus Dioscorea, ...

Getting zapped with millions of volts of electricity may not sound like a healthy activity, but for some trees, it is. A new study, published in New Phytologist, reports that some tropical tree ...