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 ...

OKAY. NO. CRAZY. OKAY, TURNING GEARS NOW, IN AMES, A MAN IS TURNING A TROUBLED TREE INTO A BIT OF A MASTERPIECE. YEAH, CHAINSAW ARTIST IS MAKING WOOD ART OUT OF A TREE THAT WAS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING ...

Lightning was caught on camera hitting a tree in Tomahawk, Wisconsin, on Sept. 9. Security camera footage captured the strike on the property of Mike Smith, who was not home at the time but was ...

Dipteryx oleifera trees not only survive lightning strikes, they grow taller, lose rivals, and reproduce more successfully.

According to their findings, published in Global Change Biology, an estimated 320 million trees die each year due to lightning strikes. Tree losses caused by direct lightning-ignited wildfires are not ...

Lightning has a greater impact on forests than previously thought. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed new model calculations that, for the first time, estimate the ...