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

A new study led by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and the Missouri Botanical Garden has uncovered a ...

For one tropical tree species in the forests of Panama, getting struck by lightning every once in a while is […] ...

One species of tropical tree seems not only to survive lightning strikes but also to thrive because of them Being struck by ...

How long do these large trees live in the forest? We can't do tree ring dating in tropical forests because they don't make ...

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

The rainforest in Panama’s Barro Colorado Nature Monument is the perfect place to study whether some trees are immune to lightning. It’s home to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and ...

With their ability to store carbon, forests are often considered the lungs of the Earth, but they are vulnerable to the world ...

A major new study has revealed that tropical forests across the Americas are not adapting quickly enough to climate change, raising concerns about their long-term resilience.

Gora studies how lightning impacts biodiversity and carbon storage in Panama's tropical forests. Lightning kills hundreds of millions of trees per year. But in 2015, while working in Panama ...