A new study provides the first estimates of lightning-killed trees, a crucial figure for understanding Earth's carbon cycle.

Using new data modeling techniques, experts have concluded that lightning kills at least 320 million trees every year.

Every year, lightning kills around 320 million trees across the globe, not with raging wildfires but through direct strikes ...

Lightning has a greater impact on forests than previously thought. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) ...

Lightning kills about 320 million trees yearly, especially tall ones in tropical forests. It releases up to 1.09 billion tons ...

A new study finds that lightning kills some 320 million trees around the world each year, more than was previously thought. And that figure could rise in the decades ahead as increasingly hot and ...

The thunderstorms brought damaging winds that downed several trees and wires throughout Connecticut, the National Weather ...

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.