Friday afternoon's severe storms came on quickly and were destructive for many areas. In Montgomery County, multiple trees ...

Bhubaneswar: In a bid to reduce lightning-related deaths, the forest department on Saturday decided to treat the palm tree as ...

Of the 30 species the group identified, palm trees were highly likely to die if struck by lightning, while four species of broadleaf trees—a diverse group of seed-bearing, flowering trees—had ...

A man in his 30s was seriously injured while walking on Cannes' famous Croisette promenade on Saturday when he was struck by ...

The team of researchers, led by Evan Gora, deployed a lightning location system across Barro Colorado Nature Monument in central Panama to track the after-effects on 93 trees struck by lightning.

In all, between 2014 and 2019, the researchers documented nearly 100 instances of various species of trees being directly struck by lightning. More than half of these trees were killed.