A new study provides the first estimates of lightning-killed trees, a crucial figure for understanding Earth's carbon cycle.

Using new data modeling techniques, experts have concluded that lightning kills at least 320 million trees every year.

Lightning has a greater impact on forests than previously thought. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) ...

Scientists found the surprising characteristic had evolved through the years, predisposing the species to a great advantage.

Lightning kills about 320 million trees yearly, especially tall ones in tropical forests. It releases up to 1.09 billion tons ...

According to calculations published in the journal Global Change Biology by a research team at Germany’s Technical University ...

Recently the Pine Belt has been battling triple digit temperatures, but Mississippi summer weather patterns also bring in ...

Oregon Department of Forestry officials counted roughly 200 lightning strikes west of Ontario, and approximately 1500 south ...

Lightning strikes kill 320 million trees yearly worldwide. This causes significant carbon emissions, almost matching ...

A climate change-induced surge in brief but intense thunderstorms poses a growing but underrecognized threat to trees in ...