Madurai: A 32-year-old lawyer died after lightning struck him at the Tiruchuzhi district munsif cum judicial magistrate court ...

A suspected lightning strike damaged a house in northern Minnesota on Thursday. Lightning strikes are also believed to have ...

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 ...

A Dipteryx oleifera tree just after being struck by lightning in 2019 (left) versus two years later (right). The tree survived the strike with minimal damage, and benefited from having its ...

According to the study's authors, each lightning strike to a Dipteryx oleifera tree killed approximately 9.2 neighbouring trees due to the electricity traveling between branches or vines.

Some Lake Bluff residents suffered property damage Wednesday morning after a tree was struck by lightning ... He added no one was injured due to the lightning strike, but estimated at least ...

Lightning strikes may kill untold numbers of trees every year, but one tropical species has evolved to benefit from the sudden jolts of electricity. The tonka bean tree, aka Dipteryx oleifera, has ...

Two boys were killed after they were struck by lightning while playing cricket in Pedda Obinenipalle village in this district on Sunday evening. A farmer was also seriously injured, police said. The ...

For two to six years after the strike, the team measured tree survival ... trees to survive lightning strikes. They would also like to explore whether other species show lightning tolerance ...

After the strike, the almendro stood alone, bathed in light, unburdened by parasites, and with less competition for nutrients. Lightning solved all the tree’s problems in one strike. A Dipteryx ...

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. The ...