New research suggests that Dipteryx oleifera trees, after being struck by lightning, are 14 times more likely to produce offspring. Reading time 3 minutes If you’re stuck outside in the middle of a ...

Before Josh Groban and friends take over CBS screens, four-time Grammy-nominated Country music artist Mickey Guyton returns this holiday season as host of the National Park Service and the National ...

When lightning strikes a tree in your yard, there are many different kinds of ways the tree can become a problem—and a costly one at that.

Lightning strikes kill millions of trees each year — but it turns out that some large tropical trees can not only survive a strike, but also benefit from its effects, according to a recent study. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study provides the first estimates of lightning-killed trees, a crucial figure for understanding Earth's carbon cycle. Reading time 2 minutes We’ve all seen dramatic footage of lightning ...

Struck by lightning during a roaring thunderstorm 10 years ago, an ancient pine tree in Bolivia’s capital of La Paz is thriving. Known as the “miracle tree,” this giant conifer now draws devotees from ...

An author of a recent study about lightning's effect on trees in Panamanian forests says his team has gotten a large, positive response from... Lightning strikes kill millions of trees each year — but ...