SUGAR LAND, Texas – You remember the saying when thunder roars go indoors? Well, this is a classic example why. Bonnie Ashby in Sugar Land shared a picture of one of her trees which was split by a ...

BIG BEAR, Calif. -- Dramatic video captured the aftermath of a lightning strike near Big Bear in Southern California when a large pine tree caught on fire and split in half. The footage shows the ...

A lightning strike split a tree on Pogue Street in Raleigh during a storm Thursday night, leaving more than 300 customers without power for about nine hours. A lightning strike split a tree on Pogue ...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A DeKalb County couple is still in shock after a lightning strike split a tree at their house and caused a small fire in their garage. Ernest Walker can hardly believe how he and ...

While lightning is a fascinating phenomenon, it's also infamous in its capacity for destruction and the danger it poses to life. Each year, lightning claims hundreds of millions of trees worldwide, ...

PENNSYLVANIA (WBNG) - The chance of anything being struck by lightning is slim, but not impossible. For a homeowner in northeastern Pennsylvania, she knows about that all too well. Tuesday night ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Scientists discover trees in the lowland rainforests of Panama that use lightning strikes to ...

A first-of-its-kind study estimates that lightning strikes kill 320 million trees every year. For perspective, these dead trees account for up to 2.9 percent of annual loss in plant biomass and emit ...

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 of ...

Getting hit by lightning is not usually a good thing. But one tropical tree species seems to harness heaven’s wrath. Not only do the trees survive lightning strikes, but their height and voluminous ...