Saturday morning around 8 a.m., a lightning bolt struck a tree in the Canfield Village Green causing a tree to explode.

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

Trees, which stick out of the ground like natural lightning rods, make this route a little bit easier. What happens when lightning strikes a tree depends in part on how long it's been raining.

Tonka bean trees survive lightning strikes — and use the powerful electric shocks to kill their competitors.

A study estimates that 200 million trees in the tropics are mowed down by lightning annually.

Based on their novel climate model, lightning manages to fatally injure 320 million trees per year—somewhere between 2.1 and 2.9 percent of annual plant biomass loss.

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

When lightning strikes a tree, it will most certainly leave a calling card, but it can be difficult to predict whether that injury is “strike one, two or three.” There are many variables to consider, ...

A tree a Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore that was hit by lightning and exploded during a recent storm serves as a stark reminder to people who are outside as thunderstorms are rolling in, say ...