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

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

positive response from... 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 ...

Lightning strikes kill millions of trees each year ... People have been really positive and excited. We've had a couple of people specifically reference, you know, it's a stressful time ...

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

One of the trees is seen here at center, four weeks after it was hit by a lightning strike that killed neighboring trees (the brown mass at lower center). (Evan Gora /Screenshot by NPR ...