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

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

An author of a recent study about lightning's effect on trees in Panamanian forests says his team has gotten a large, ...

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 major new study has revealed that tropical forests across the Americas are not adapting quickly enough to climate change, ...

Using instruments on board, the Biomass satellite will be able to measure the woody trunks, branches and stems where carbon ...

Yams are considered one of the world’s most important crops. A starchy, nutrient-rich root vegetable of the genus Dioscorea, ...

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