SUGAR LAND, Texas – You remember the saying when thunder roars go indoors? Well, this is a classic example why. Bonnie Ashby in Sugar Land shared a picture of one of her trees which was split by a ...

New research suggests that Dipteryx oleifera trees, after being struck by lightning, are 14 times more likely to produce offspring. Reading time 3 minutes If you’re stuck outside in the middle of a ...

LAMAR COUNTY, Miss. (WDAM) - Recently the Pine Belt has been battling triple digit temperatures. But Mississippi summer weather patterns also bring in lots of rain and everything that comes with it. A ...

COVENTRY, Conn. (WFSB) - A lightning strike ignited a tree after an evening of storms on Tuesday. The tree was located near the intersections of Swamp Road and Brewster Street. The Coventry Fire ...

Getting zapped with millions of volts of electricity may not sound like a healthy activity, but for some trees, it is. A new study, published in New Phytologist, reports that some tropical tree ...

The tonka bean tree can survive a lightning strike, and thrive. Lightning strikes may kill untold numbers of trees every year, but one tropical species has evolved to benefit from the sudden jolts of ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Scientists discover trees in the lowland rainforests of Panama that use lightning strikes to ...

Before a discovery in a Panamanian rainforest, “it seemed impossible that lightning could be a good thing for the trees,” a scientist said. By Rebecca Dzombak When lightning strikes a tree in the ...

DENVER (KDVR) — “Don’t shower during a thunderstorm” and “lightning never strikes in the same place twice” are tips you may have heard growing up, and while some phrases are true, others can do more ...

Thunderstorms often begin to develop early in the day when the sun heats the air near the ground and pockets of warmer air start to rise in the atmosphere. When these pockets of air reach a certain ...