Saturday morning around 8 a.m., a lightning bolt struck a tree in the Canfield Village Green causing a tree to explode.

Trees, which stick out of the ground like natural lightning rods, make this route a little bit easier. What happens when lightning strikes a tree depends in part on how long it's been raining.

A 90-foot tree in the backyard of her home at the Bradshaw Farm subdivision had shattered. Pieces and limbs of the tree shot through two upstairs windows. "It exploded and became a missile.

Crews worked to restore power and fix wires to clean up areas of the state after storms Saturday night. A large tree fell on ...

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

An author of a recent study about lightning's effect on trees in Panamanian forests says his team has gotten a large, positive response from people, including those who call the trees inspirational.

A man in Australia narrowly dodged death after a large lightning strike struck a tree next to his parked car, causing huge branches to crash down onto his car.

Lightning is often seen as a killer, leaving behind destruction and death of trees — but one tropical species has evolved to use the force of nature to its benefit. The tonka bean tree ...

Before a discovery in a Panamanian rainforest, “it seemed impossible that lightning could be a good thing for the trees,” a scientist said.