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

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

Though being struck by lightning is usually bad, the tropical tree Dipteryx oleifera benefits. A strike kills other nearby trees and parasitic vines.

Before a discovery in a Panamanian rainforest, “it seemed impossible that lightning could be a good thing for the trees,” a ...

A Dipteryx oleifera tree just after being struck by lightning in 2019 ( top) versus two years later ( bottom ). The tree ...

The Edmonds City Council on Tuesday night briefly discussed, but didn’t make a decision on, an interim ordinance proposed by ...

Two of the holiday season's superstars, Balsam Hill and Twinkly, teamed up to create a smart Christmas tree that left us ...

Dipteryx trees in Panama survive lightning strikes, grow taller, lose rivals, and reproduce more successfully.

I'd like y’all to stroll a bit around downtown Chapel Hill. The trees are waking and I thought it might be nice for us to ...

Temperatures are expected to rise into the 70s for much of the region by the weekend, and the coast will see temperatures in ...

Philip Thomas Vanderford of Studio Thomas James thoughtfully designs a serene modern masterpiece inspired by its idyllic ...