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

In a rainforest teeming with competition, one tree has discovered how to turn catastrophe into advantage. In Panama’s dense ...

Lightning strikes kill millions of trees each year — but it turns out that some large tropical trees can not only survive a ...

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.

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 ...