Linda Bristow shows CBC London how a maple tree toppled down in her backyard after being struck by lightning from Tuesday's ...

Dr. Gora set out to study whether individual trees in the forest benefit from being struck by lightning. And if they did, does that help the population of the species survive at a larger scale?

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

In Panama’s dense lowland jungle, a tropical species called Dipteryx oleifera —known locally as almendro or the tonka bean ...

The tonka bean tree (Dipteryx oleifera) may actually benefit from being struck by lightning, according to a new study. Scientists discovered that these trees not only survive these electrical ...

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 ...

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

They then compared the nine D. oleifera trees that had been struck by lightning with 84 other trees, and found that the normal trees had an average of 40% of their branches and leaves destroyed ...

The tonka bean tree stood out to researchers as one species that consistently showed little to no damage after a lightning strike. “Over those 40 years, there’s a quantifiable, detectable ...

For trees, lightning strikes are the great leveller. Stick your neck out by growing taller than the rest and you risk getting zapped into oblivion. Hundreds of millions of trees suffer this fate every ...

Some Lake Bluff residents suffered property damage Wednesday morning after a tree was struck by lightning, village officials said. Village Administrator Drew Irvin stated at about 6:40 am ...