The tonka bean tree in Panama not only survives, but thrives off of lightning strikes, which it uses to wipe out its ...

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

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 ...

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