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

Lightning strikes kill millions of trees each year — but it turns out that some large tropical trees can not only survive a strike, but also benefit from its effects, according to a recent study.

A neighbor's doorbell camera captured video of the strike. After arriving, firefighters found "significant damage to the interior and exterior of the house, likely due to the lightning streak ...

Lightning strikes kill millions of trees each year — but it turns out that some large tropical trees can not only survive a strike, but also benefit from its effects, according to a recent study. The ...

One of the trees is seen here at center, four weeks after it was hit by a lightning strike that killed neighboring trees (the brown mass at lower center). (Evan Gora /Screenshot by NPR ...