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

The Tonka bean tree conducts electricity so well that lightning just flows through it, leaving the tree unharmed. But the ...

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

A tropical tree species in Panama’s lowland rainforest appears to benefit from lightning strikes by surviving unscathed while ...