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, ...

As the positive charges build under the cloud ... Sometimes the evidence of a lightning strike is not so obvious. We may not see the damage because it has reached all the way down to the root ...

They found that the sprite lightning was triggered by "high-peak current positive cloud-to-ground lightning strikes," which themselves took place within the context of a massive mesoscale ...

Thunderstorms are exceedingly common; a staggering 3 million lightning strikes occur on Earth every ... "It's the same as [an] electron, but it has a positive charge instead of a negative one.” ...

And, it just so happened, the storm itself was a behemoth, stretching across 200,000 square kilometers and generating ultra-powerful positive ... to their parent lightning strikes with ...

we discovered that the sprites were triggered by high-peak current positive cloud-to-ground lightning strikes within a massive mesoscale convective system.” A mesoscale event is a large complex ...

oleifera and what sort of impact, both positive and negative, lightning strikes had on the species. Shockingly, their research provided evidence of a tree evolving to get struck by lightning.

When severe spring weather strikes, knowing the difference between ... or larger in diameter and/or winds at 58 mph or stronger. Lightning frequency is not a criterion for issuing a severe ...